Experience

summer meditation - my heart beats louder and louder Haiku should be written from real experience. I am not talking about the American Haiku Moment, rather a simple awareness of oneself alive right now. Make this experiment. Read the following instructions: Close your eyes and feel yourself ! Are your legs crossed or side by side? Is your head tilted to one side? which one? Are your shoulders at the same hight? ...Is the left one higher? Can you really feel that? Is your breath regular or irregular? Is your body itching at any place? Are your fingers tapping ? Open your eyes. Now try and feel your sourroundings in the same way. Any sound? Any smell? Any color to fancy your eye?

Experience is life! To be alive!
If you are alive, you should experience it every moment. Thus your life will always be full and haiku are just lurking around the corner ...

Write to me about your experiences!

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

early at the desk -
I see her smiling
mop in hand

A.Thiagarajan (WHCindia)

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

haiku is catching
the moments of life
as it is

Aju Mukhopadhyay, India

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

gabi,
thank you for this exercise, friend.

early morning . . .
the osculating fan silences
birdsong

dustin neal

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

is that a spider web
blowing in my
peripheral

my crossed arms
protects me from what?
another truth surfaces

I noticed when I started your experience, I almost automatically crossed my arms across my chest in that protection body language ... curious, wonder what I was needing protection from? (smile).

B. from America

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I close my eyes and hear the wind
when I open my eyes i see the wind blowing in the trees through my window

in my mind
whispers
calling me outside

S.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

darkened room
the ac and ceiling fan
not really helping

fuzzy eyesight
I lean towards the computer
forgetting to breath

ankles crossed
my feet swollen cantaloupes
almost summer

my butt
welded to this chair
the yard calls

Cliff Roberts
"promoting haiku awareness"
Founder and President of the Fort Worth Haiku Society,
HSA Southwest Regional Coordinator
http://www.members.aol.com/graphicfantasy01/FWHS.htm

Dear Cliff,
great you could use my little exercise for promoting more haiku awareness.
GABI

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

at the keyboard
air-conditioned chill
on my left arm

Bill Kenney

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Read my Haiku Archives from June

***************************

Please send me your contributions

To the Daruma Museum Index

To the WHC Worldkigo Database