Remembrance Day: a haiku.
Meak versus the meek.
Now’s the time to remember
all our wars’ victims.
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© MPSO 11/11/2023
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Meak: Norse to mean a sword
TSAP Editors note:
A haiku is unrhymed, an ancient poem that usually adheres to a specific three-line, seventeen-syllable format. It originates in Japan and once formed an opening stanza to a larger work of poetry (a renga). In fact without such strict adherence a haiku would be considered a senryū.
Traditionally, a haiku depicts a moment in time and includes a kireji (a cutting word/s -although a literal meaning is cutting letter) that usefully creates a pause, a time to reflect – more powerful than our own ceasuara and a sense of closure and usually includes a kigo, a sense of season or nature.