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Banzai, haiku poets of Bananafish Tribe!

The 43rd edition of Mizu no Oto – Every Image Has Its Haiku has come to an end.

This time we made things a little more complicated, asking you to practice the five conformations of classic haiku. The time is approaching when we will also talk about modern haiku or gendai, perhaps closer to our feelings as human beings of the twenty-first century.

Your entries are very beautiful and insightful, also thanks to the gorgeous photo by @f3nix, to which I will certainly ask for visual material for the next edition too.

Here come the winners of this edition!

Best Haiku award (1 SBI):

@zeleiracordero

Sunny day-
the light flutters
on the leaves

According with the classification of compositional techniques, this is a perfect toriawase haiku with a torihayashi that extends along the second and third lines. In fact, it is clear that the images are two and are in harmony with each other, not in contrast. The image of the light fluttering on the leaves completes with a delicate and warm detail the statement on the first ku (“verse”). There’s a hint of fairy atmosphere in that use of the verb “flutter”, a thing that veils of yūgen the otherwise imposing and majestic photo. This way of search for the more delicate particular, avoiding the stronger and more evident subject, is also a show of shiori and karumi. Kudos to you, Zeleira!

Popular Choices (1 SBI each):

@mllg

Green witness
It is projected to blue.
Rising Autumn.

@oacevedo

Summer light
in the stately home
green splendor

Once again, the popular votes didn’t identify a winner, but there was a draw situation between two entries. I know the contest rule says there should be at least five votes in order to have this side award delivered, but the overall participants didn’t were so many, this time, so I think we’re happier if we split the 2 SBI left in the prize budget between those two veteran Mizu No Oto poets.
@mllg haiku is particular because she chose to focus on the natural elements of the photo, the “green wintess” tree (I think the cypress) that stands out against the clear sky. Here we see the refined haijin look that picks up the subtle mono no aware particular and not the big, human-made, protagonist, the villa.
@oacevedo haiku is somewhat similar to the winning Zeleira’s haiku, it focuses on the light reflected by the vegetation. The house is present, but it’s a “home”, so we can feel there’s a personal feeling that links the poet to this place, or the reader to a similar place, any place they call home in their heart.
Both haiku follow the toriawase technique, but Marìa Luisa made a stronger contrast between the first image, full of light, and the autumn (that brings the idea of decay) in the second image, so her haiku shows nibutsu shōgeki; Oswaldo, instead, wrote a second image that confirm the first, insisting on the concept of light and splendor, so he followed the torihayashi variant.

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Domo arigato gozaimasu to all the eleven participants!
First of all, to @owasco, whose haiku was in my opinion the second best after the winning one. She always puts in her post all the creative process that heads to her final haiku, and that’s amazing. We always can learn a lot confronting each other and talking with passion about poetics.
Second, to @marcybetancourt, that always reads and enthusiastically comments and reviews the other entries. She never fails to post her well-argued vote.
Third, to @preparedwombat for his critical comments, through which we can increase mutual knowledge.
Then, to @salvao, another veteran that writes great haikus and poetry (check his blog!), and is an assiduous voter too.
Last, but not least, thanks to @manoldonchev, @gracielaacevedo, @raj808 (welcome back!), @felixgarciap: you’re always giving us good feelings.
Keep on filling Steemit with excellent haikus!

See you in all probability next week, with issue #44 in Spanish! It would be a Christmas Edition!

Your faithful haiku enthusiast

@marcoriccardi

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