- Non-Erotic Poetry
- Haiku Poems
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Allen Ginsberg defines haiku as “first flash, second recognition, third afterthought.” He also defines haiku as “two polarized thoughts fused by a flash of recognition,” offering as his model Basho’s well-known haiku about a frog jumping into pond water. It goes, in syllabic meter (5-7-5 the accepted meter):
In the ancient pond
A frog leaps– and then the splash
Of all that water.
He also says that ideally the haiku “should contain emptiness, form and a blissful or humorous recognition of the relationship between the two.” He offers as his criteria for haiku (1) extreme compression of thought, (2) casualness of expression, (3) the very subtle suggestion of the Karmic law of cause and result. (exerpt from Creating Poetry by John Drury, p.108)
As this for criteria, I offer the following:
HP1 (for reference)
He heaves the football
Deep – the receiver is open
Oh he dropped it.
HP2 (for reference)
Bread and margarine
There is no other – oh right
I forgot butter.
