haikaiTALKS: a saturday gathering! death poems - JISEI
- Kala Ramesh
- Aug 12, 2023
- 1 min read
haikaiTALKS: death poems - JISEI
host: Kala Ramesh
12 August 2023
This week shall we try a death poem - called Jisei in the Japanese language? It can be a haiku or a tanka!
For your own poems: Only TWO ku per week, per prompt, per poet.
First post: You'll search and find one you like.
You'll give your reason/s why you like it.
https://terebess.hu/zen/mesterek/Death.pdf
Sample poem: death, loss, farewell.
this world
is a dewdrop world
yes … but …
ISSA
Tr. by David G. Lanoue
Second post: This will be your first ku.
Third post:
This will be your second ku.
Please give your feedback on others' commentary and poems too. _()_
Keep writing and commenting!
Thanks, Alan:
alone
each second
of breath
a chariot wheel touches
the earth at one point
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original
each second
each breath sustains
my life
a chariot wheel touching
the earth at one point alone
third post
feedback always welcome
Third post:
and the sound
of rain
on doves
the culmination
of tears
Alan Summers
#3
if someone
would push me
off a cliff
let me soar untethered
into the heavens
comments welcome
#2
you’ll be the death of me love
comments welcome
#1
bury me when I die
next to a wine barrel
in a tavern
with luck
the cask will leak
Moriya Sen'an ( d.1838 )
i love the humor in this!