Spring is come

So beautiful, Nina. Loved the scenes and the noise. Gave me a lively touch. Sincerely, Wafi

but do crocusus (croci(?) croak)? Loved the poem Nina... Great work! ~Anna "We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. And when you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal." Paulo Coelho

the choice of crocus and croaks, the vivid imagery. My mother, a gardener, told me that purple flowers are the hardiest and while I know crocus come in other colors, I always think of them as purple. The title is a bit of a problem for me. If Spring is here, how is it also coming? Maybe, Spring is Coming or Spring is Here or Spring is Coming Here? Cheerful and fresh!

Nina! I see you posted this *before* I started going on to you about 'spring will be upon us soon' yesterday. How funny is that! Must be something in the air : ) I love it because it makes me happy! ~Stella

ahhh spring! lovely... hope of sunshine and new life. What about 'Spring is come' if you do want to change title? take care b x

Definitely done, and very well! love the deep simplicity, like the title ;) I feel a bit more confident about making comments, have been a bit 'who am i to say...' if that makes sense? so Thank you! take care b x

These are the words I would use here:- The first crocus blooms the wild geese return squawks fill the sky Yours Ann

Hi Nina, Ann, both editions work fine, Nina's is the correct 5-7-5; although the really really great poems of Basho, et al. rarely use them. Even though his interpreters created endless variation on his themes: http://www.haikupoetshut.com/basho1.html ~Anna "We have to try to get rid of the notion of time. And when you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal." Paulo Coelho

Kailashana, and the dramatic name Ink Dragon, we are in poetry before we read poetry here. Both of you have rolled in the sacred billows of poetic stardust and can evoke the ghosts of past aesthetics and artists. Thank you for pointing out this Basho site, it is not always easy to fall on the right one and now we can travel into the past and jump into the ancient pond like the frog and see, feel and hear a world that is other and wonder-full. Listen the grey geese are calling as they fly.....! They have flown by our big window here and I leap out of bed and run to the window, I have even a photo of them high in the sky, but this group were only three metres from the window w...w...wonderful. Did you see them this year Nina? If so they will be coming here soon, I may even see the same ones you did. Thank you both. Ann

And the haïku forms, how can we, writing in the English language, translate the poems of Basho from the original rhythm of the Japanese words, their associations are different, their emphases are different, they can write in symbolic calligraphy, who are we to try to call what we write haïku? Just cast your mind to Shakespeare in Japanese, Molière in Japanese...the list is endless, but we have something here that we should address, how rigid should we be about the mathematics of a poem? I think that the essence of a haïku should be the aim, its manner of giving us the sudden moment, in the now, that makes it so immediate, so experienced in the now, even if it was written in the year 800, or whatever, they have a timelessness and a value apart from the mechanics. I am just thinking aloud and it is only a thought? What do you think Neopoets? Nina? Yours as aye Ann of Norway.