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se solo potessi
vederli fiorire…
semi di peonia

if only I could
see them flourish --
peony seeds

haiku by Angiola Inglese (2019)

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Welcome to the 29th edition of the Mizu No Oto contest, haiku friends!

Refreshed by the break week, I’m ready to give you a new photo to delight you in composing haiku.

I remind you, as far as possible, to read the other participants' haikus and to cast your vote.
To facilitate the reading, I advise you to report the haiku you have chosen for the contest in the comments, along with the link to the post.

I also remind you that it is allowed to participate with a single haiku, even if you can post some more for the sheer pleasure of doing it (but I ask you to indicate precisely what you intend to participate with).

Let’s the contest begin!

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[Traducción Española]

¡Bienvenidos a la edición número 29 del concurso Mizu No Oto, amigos del haiku!

Refrescado por la semana de descanso, estoy listo para darle una nueva foto para deleitarle en la composición del haiku.

Le recuerdo, en la medida de lo posible, que lea los haikus de los otros participantes y emita su voto.
Para facilitar la lectura, le aconsejo que informe el haiku que ha elegido para el concurso en los comentarios, junto con el enlace a la publicación.

También le recuerdo que está permitido participar con un solo haiku, incluso si puede publicar algo más por el simple placer de hacerlo (pero le pido que indique con precisión con qué pretende participar).

¡Que comience el concurso!

Best haiku award: n. 3 steembasicincome shares

Popular choice award (if at least 5 votes): n. 1 steembasicincome share

Best vote comment (if at least 5 votes): n. 1 steembasicincome share

For those that want to unleash their poetic potential, here is how this contest works:

• Look at the prompt image and let yourself be inspired by it.

• Write a haiku related to the prompt image. The haiku should be composed by 1-3 short verses with no title. The classical haiku form is 3 verses of 5/7/5 syllables, but other forms are allowed, as long as they remain in absolute brevity.

• The haiku should be in English or include an English translation.

• Post the haiku on your blog or in the comment section below this post. If you make your own post, don’t forget to put the link to it in the comment section below!

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Don't forget to use the tag:

#haikucontest

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Prompt Image:

[photo by @calluna]

Do you want to know how we evaluate the submitted haiku? These are the characteristics we search for (but not mandatorily):
• Kireji (切れ字), a cut between the 1st and the 2nd verses, or between the 2nd and the 3rd; the cut can be grammatical, as a sign of punctuation, or it can be a cut in the meaning, like two different images.

• Kigo (季語), an explicit or implicit reference to a season, that defines the time of the year in which the haiku is composed or referred to.

• Sabi (寂), the sense of the inexorable passage of time, the beauty or serenity that accompanies the advance of age, when the life of the objects and its impermanence are highlighted by patina and wear or by any visible repairs.

• Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.

• Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.

• Yūgen (幽玄), sense of wonder and mystery; it represents the state of mind produced by the inexplicable fascination of things, the feeling of an 'other' universe, full of mysterious unity.

• Karumi (軽み), beauty in simplicity; poetic beauty reflected in its simplicity, free from preconceptions and moral judgment.

• Shiori (しおり), gentleness; the levity and the delicate charm that radiates from the verses, where things are evoked in the reader without aggressiveness or excessive explicitness.

Submission deadline: Wednesday 1sth May, 10:00 PM, GMT +1 (Rome Time).

The results will be out on Thursday 2nd May, 10:00 PM, GMT +1 (Rome Time).

The Naturalistic Component

We have seen that haiku refers to the present experience of the author.

This experience always has to do with nature, both when it speaks about phenomena and manifestations of the natural world, and when it speaks about human events that are intertwined with these phenomena.

Already the ancient waka poetry largely had a naturalistic argument: contemplation and mystical union between man and the world.

For Japanese poetry, nature is the external place where it is possible to get in touch with one's own profound "I", in an intimate and immediate way.

Reading haiku anthologies from different eras, it is very difficult to find something that investigates the essence of the individual beyond naturalistic evidence. On the contrary, it seems that there is no further truth, besides the "absolute truth" of natural daily life.

The haiku does not express judgment of beauty, ugliness, goodness or malice, it only describes the innate essence of things.

What matters is the mild and unexpected surprise that strikes both the author and the reader in noticing an apparently banal everyday object or situation, seeing it with a new perspective angle, like instantaneous and unrepeatable illumination.

烏 が だ ま つ て と ん で 行 つ た
karasu ga damatte tonde itta

a crow
got up in flight
noiselessly

(Ozaki Hōsai)

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[Traducción española]

El componente naturalista

Hemos visto que el haiku se refiere a la experiencia actual del autor.

Esta experiencia siempre tiene que ver con la naturaleza, tanto cuando habla de fenómenos y manifestaciones del mundo natural, como cuando habla de eventos humanos que se entrelazan con estos fenómenos.

Ya la poesía antigua waka tenía en gran parte un argumento naturalista: la contemplación y la unión mística entre el hombre y el mundo.

Para la poesía japonesa, la naturaleza es el lugar externo donde es posible ponerse en contacto con el propio "Yo" profundo, de una manera íntima e inmediata.

Leyendo antologías haiku de diferentes épocas, es muy difícil encontrar algo que investigue la esencia del individuo más allá de la evidencia naturalista. Por el contrario, parece que no hay más verdad, además de la "verdad absoluta" de la vida cotidiana natural.

El haiku no expresa un juicio de belleza, fealdad, bondad o malicia, solo describe la esencia innata de las cosas.

Lo que importa es la leve e inesperada sorpresa que golpea tanto al autor como al lector al darse cuenta de un objeto o situación cotidiana aparentemente banal, al verlo con un nuevo ángulo de perspectiva, como una iluminación instantánea e irrepetible.

烏 が だ ま つ て と ん で 行 つ た
karasu ga damatte tonde itta

un cuervo
se levantó en vuelo
sin ruido

(Ozaki Hōsai)

Good haku to everybody!

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