Haiku: Mown Grass Poem by Walterrean Salley

a lot of people think that a haiku is a 'simple' composition of - 17 syllables (or fewer) in three lines of 5-7-5 syllables.. It is, of course, but it is not enough - it is the necessary but not sufficient 'element'. The essence of a haiku is - 'cutting', expressed by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas separated by a kireji (as we are not Japanese and don't have 'cutting-words' in our languages, we usually put a dash or 'similar' between the two): - then a kigo has to be there (and here it is: Spring): It is through a clever use of such features that a haiku comes to get its internally sufficient composition, independent of context. do take, as an example, this wonderful haiku: '' In my leave / In your stay – / two autumns '' Masaoka Shiki (1869–1902) greetings from Italy Fabrizio