Dear friends of MLMM,
This week I love to challenge you in another way. Today I love to ask you to create a new haiku, or as I call it a “fusion”-haiku. What is the goal of this week’s challenge? I will give you two haiku by a classical haiku poet, two nice ones I think, and you have to create a new haiku, a fusion, between the scenes in the given haiku. Imagine you are on a crossroad … you can take several paths to find your destination, your goal. The goal for this challenge … well I think it’s very clear.
Here are the two haiku to create your “fusion” with, two beauties by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translations by Jane Reichhold:
from a treetop
emptiness dropped down
in a cicada shell
black forest
whatever you may say
a morning of snow
And this is my “fusion” of these two beauties by my sensei:
silent forest
emptiness filled with snow
a cicada shell
© Chèvrefeuille
Have fun!
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ok don’t think I’ve quite got the haiku thing happening so would totally appreciate your feedback?
forest trees black
with empty cicada shells
snow blankets the ground
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I like your fusion haiku. As usual I went off on the tangent and used the two haiku as inspiration rather than fusing the content of the original. It’s probably not what you had in mind. Please let me know if it’s too far from the rules of the challenge.
let me give a try here, do let me have your say on this.. Thanks much!
unfolded black blanket
breaking free cicada
earthly shooting stars
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I’m not sure I fused correctly either… but I went where the prompt directed me:
action, reaction
it was fun trying out creating a fusion haiku — always great to read Basho, especially since I hadn’t seen these two before. I loved the way your haiku caught the bleak quiet of snow with that one note of long-past summer season (i associate cicadas with summer)
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