Three Stars
Three stars in the sky…
Three lines only to tell you
all my hopes for us.
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Sneeze
Your sweet face – a sneeze –
as sudden and explosive
as your sweet haiku.
Christina Egan © 2013
Drei Sterne
Drei Sterne am Himmel…
Drei Zeilen für dich, für
all meine Hoffnung.
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Nieser
Dein liebes Gesicht
– ein Nieser – plötzlich, heftig,
wie deine Haikus!
Christina Egan © 2016
A haiku is a Japanese poetic form; each poem has only three lines and seventeen syllables, which amounts sometimes to only a dozen words, even with a title. Yet you can say a lot in three lines… The word game is more difficult in German than in English, since the words are longer; translation can be a challenge.
A traditional haiku starts with an image from nature indicating the season; you will see on my haiku pages that I largely follow this rule. These here are different: one is simply romantic and one humorous, and both are about reading and hearing haiku!
Illustration: Stamp of 1963. (Scanned by Darjac) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.