Haiku on Easter Saturday
About a month ago, my friends at Things Unseen announced a competition. Participants were invited to submit a Haiku for Easter. A Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form, consisting of three lines of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. Entries selected would be professionally recorded and aired as part of a special Good Friday podcast.
Yesterday, the podcast aired – with a lovely discussion by Alison Hilliard and poet Stewart Henderson. It is well worth the investment of 26 minutes of your time today if you would like to click here.
I was delighted to find my two contributions amongst the entries, and you can hear them both below. There is an elegance to Haiku, I believe, a focus in few words which is lost in many. Maybe Easter Saturday, the day when a silent Father grieved for a buried son, is a good day for few words.
Click to hear Nicola Walker read my Haiku ‘moss’
Click to hear Anton Lesser read my Haiku ‘grave clothes’
