Transformed
(my first haiku)
Caterpillars spin
increments of commitment;
Butterflies fly free!
© Ken Chawkin
Published in The Dryland Fish, An Anthology of Contemporary Iowa Poets, 2003, within 13 Ways to Write Haiku: A Poet’s Dozen.
Written around 25 years later, In the Parkview Cave, seems relevant here.
Watch this NOVA documentary: The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies.
See this later post: Japanese culture: poetic aesthetics, artistry, and martial arts, inspired me to write haiku and tanka.
Tags: haiku, transformation
The Uncarved Blog 
September 2, 2009 at 10:08 pm |
not bad at all, keep at it!
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September 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm |
Thank you. I wrote that haiku almost 20 years ago now, and have composed many more since then, even some tanka, and the natural extension into renga. Love the challenge of compactifying language within certain constraints in order to precisely say more with less. Even wrote a haiku about that. May post it some time.
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July 19, 2012 at 11:40 pm |
Here is that haiku I promised: Art of the Haiku by Ken Chawkin http://wp.me/pD0BA-5RC
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July 19, 2012 at 11:47 pm |
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January 9, 2021 at 7:34 pm |
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