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tspoetry's avatar

LOVE the gif!! 💞

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

I do, too!

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Karol Koszorz's avatar

Hey Jason, loved this article particularly because I see „geography of the imagination” as one of the purposes my poetry, to bring to life memories of the walks I have been on and the things I have seen.

For this week’s haikus:

Objective:

The sun masked by fog

Colourshifts incessantly

There is no escape

Subjective:

A floating orange

Turns into a smooth lemon

Perhaps a lightbulb

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Jason McBride's avatar

Two great ones! I'm quite fond of the dreamlike quality of your subjective haiku

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Paolo Peralta's avatar

Insightful!!!! By the way, started recommending you 🙌

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Jason McBride's avatar

Thanks, Paolo!

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Liz Gauffreau's avatar

I like the ideas in this post. I have tried objective and subjective haiku. (Thanks for validating this practice!)

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Rolando Andrade's avatar

I love this piece beacause i recognize the reasons why I write Haikus:

https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandoandrade/p/the-brightest-shadow?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=20ov80

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Jason McBride's avatar

Thanks!

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Thomas Cleary's avatar

Objective haiku:

The day sleeps in rain

cloud cover pulled up tight

pitter patter dreams

Subjective:

Monotone grey sky

lulls my body in yawning

dulls the consciousness

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Jason McBride's avatar

Great haiku, Thomas. They both perfectly capture the ways I also experience gray days.

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Ray Zimmerman's avatar

I love haiku, haiga, and haiban. I haiga appears at the beginning of this post.

https://rayzimmerman.substack.com/p/haiku-drawing

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Dhru's avatar

"They capture the story of a moment, and are less like snapshots than they are GIFS."

Thank you for articulating this...

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Raymond K. Nakamura's avatar

I had not heard of haiga before, but it makes total sense. I like how you use wordless titles to affect the pacing of your haiku comics.

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Jason McBride's avatar

Thanks, Raymond! I like to think of a moment of silent contemplation as being the invisible fourth line of a haiku.

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Raymond K. Nakamura's avatar

Lovely.

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Ray Zimmerman's avatar

Greet the fading moon

Rejoice in its bright return

Moon gazer sleeps late.

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Jason McBride's avatar

This is a good one, Ray! I love sleeping late after moon-gazing!

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