haiku IS

Haiku are fragmented glimpses of life, glued together by bits of the reader’s self.

haiku IS

Haiku is weaving wonderment into words.

haiku IS

haiku is a sketch of the things of life allowing us to see into the life of things.

haiku IS

A haiku is two parts (fragment and phrase) illuminating a whole greater than itself.

haiku IS

Haiku is the experience of the one illuminating the experience of the all.

haiku IS

Each word of a haiku serves as a stepping stone along the ordinary with a nearly imperceptible leap into the magnificent.

one firefly

haiku IS

A firefly glows and is dark. Further along the forest path another glows and then another. This ephemeral illumination . . . this is the haiku poem.

haiku IS

Upon the great darkness out of which everything manifests -- a handful of words can serve as pinpoints of light suggesting an outline, a constellation of stars, allowing each viewer a personal interpretation of a universal truth. So it is with haiku.

haiku IS

haiku creates a sacred space to honor the indescribable beauty of the everyday world.

haiku IS

Haiku is a portal, framed by words, from which the essence of what-it-means-to-be-human comes oozing-gushing-raging out.

haiku IS

Haiku is a few small words giving voice to that which is too large for words

a child's voice