Year 2023 : from January 1st to 15th
à même la table
avec les cuisses en l’air
la dinde farcie
Facebook, 2023-01-03
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The interest of this haiku is the shift in meaning in L3. Many people will have had a different understanding at the beginning, but at the end, the language changes course. A nice surprise effect and ... >>> la suite...
Gérard Mathern
Claix, Rhône-Alpes France
summer's end
the darkness of
the firefly jar
fin de l'été
l'obscurité
du bocal à lucioles
in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Dialogue column
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A discourse driven by the archetypes of the Light, the Fall (end of summer), the Active Points (fireflies), the Chtonian (dark jar). Oppositions between Light and Dark, between Openness and Closeness. ... >>> la suite...
John Pappas
Boston (MA) USA
l'hiver s'approfondit ~
déjà un vieux souvenir
le café tanzanien
2023-01-12
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This haiku uses the frequent motif of morning coffee with the oppositions of Inside versus Outside and Hot versus Cold. All this motif is here, underlying. The main effect is in the last word which c ... >>> la suite...
Sarra Masmoudi
Tunis Tunisie
lune du matin ~
la saveur de l'orange
longtemps dans la bouche
2023-01-10
Sarra Masmoudi
Tunis Tunisie
lightning strike
the fizz and crackle
of our first kiss
la foudre
le pétillement et le crépitement
de notre premier baiser
pour la énième fois
histoire de guerre -
au dehors la pluie
Un Haïku par jour, 2023-01-14
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Weather type haiku. In this type, the author associates the atmosphere, the "climate" of a situation to external weather conditions. A very effective figure by the physical feeling it creates on the r ... >>> la suite...
Domino Jacquet
Liège Belgique
ronron du frigo
bol de café fumant
premières lueurs
Un Haïku par jour, 2023-01-14
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Listed haiku (grocery list, as the Anglo-Saxons say). Technically, a discourse based on the juxtaposition of three elements related to each other. A very effective figure to create an atmosphere. The ... >>> la suite...
Brigitte Monloubou
France
veille de l'an ~
que nous amène ce courant
dans le canal ?
Facebook, 2022-12-31
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A discourse on the uncertainty that takes us at the passage of the year. A frequent motif but with a particularly well chosen illustration. There is a bit of mystery (yugen) in this image of a movemen ... >>> la suite...
Marie Jeanne Sakhinis-De Meis
Sète France
poussée vers l’est
poussée vers l’ouest
la feuille morte
Facebook, 2023-01-12
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One could have a particular reading of this haiku, seemingly with Zen connotations: Let it be and let go. But in the context of the uncertain war in Ukraine, there may have been an unconscious link be ... >>> la suite...
Gérard Dumon
Camaret France
Réveillon
un coup de vent ferme
la porte entrouverte
Facebook, 2022-12-31
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With the passing of the year come questions about the future and uncertainty. This haiku has a beautiful way of saying these things based on objective facts. A figure always very effective because a d ... >>> la suite...
Meryem Lahlou
Oujda Maroc
Nouveau costume-
à l'approche de la moisson
l'élégance de l'épouvantail
Facebook, 2023-01-08
Mudhar Al Iraqi
Baghdad Irak
impasse des lilas
la maison en ruine
n'attend que les oiseaux
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Haiku carried by the archetype of the Fall (decay of the house). Here, Life does not overcome. Life is only present through the birds. The house does not have enough resources (garden, flowers, colors ... >>> la suite...
Evelyne Bélard
Angaïs, Aquitaine France
end of the year
at the family table
a new baby chair
fin de l'année
à la table familiale
une nouvelle chaise de bébé
Failed haiku, Volume 8, Issue 85
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Haiku of passage of the year. The new year is here present in germ (implicit announcement) in the old one by the arrival of a new life. A similarity between the renewal of the year and the newness of ... >>> la suite...
Mona Iordan
Bucarest Roumanie
broc gelé
un pétale de camélia
pris au piège
in Gong 78, Revue francophone de haïku
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A rich and complex discourse. It is driven by the archetypes of the Fall, and the Trap (rarer in haiku). It is a little, the betrayal of the weather which condemns the petal. Here, Life does not preva ... >>> la suite...
Françoise Deniaud-Lelièvre
France
Translated into English with the assistance of www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)