This afternoon I went to the Haiku Poets of Upstate New York meeting. A great group.
They helped me revise a couple of haiku I was working on. I hope to submit those to some magazines. At the least, I'll use them with my writing class to show my students how even "grown-up" poets revise and seek input from others.
We also had some fun.
The presenter gave us a printout with 100 haiku regarded as classics. After we talked about our favorite ones on the printout, he suggested that we write haiku "inspired" by some of them - more than just parodies, but certainly with a bit of of humor.
I wrote two.
Original:
under the vast sky
I have no hat on (Hosai)
Mine:
into the vast sky
the hat no longer
on my head
Original:
beneath the tree
in the soup, in fish salad
cherry blossoms (Basho)
Mine:
on the table
in soup and salad bowls
dog hairs
Okay - my fellow haiku poets found them amusing!
Pax et bonum
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