Poetic Musings: One Tulip Haiku by Jane Reichhold

the azure sky

in a field of flowers

one tulip

Frogpond, 23:3, 2000

Jane Reichhold

Commentary: This is a fine example of employing the technique of narrowing focus in this cinematic haiku with a visual focus on one tulip. The haiku starts with a wide-angle lens on the "azure sky" in L1, then switches to a normal lens for a "field of flowers" in L2, and zooms in for a close-up of "one tulip" in L3. This close-up image of one tulip in a filed of flowers under the azure sky is visually evocative and symbolically rich. 

And it might be thematically and technically interesting to do a comparative reading of the following two tulip haiku:

storm clouds the inside of a tulip

Honorable Mention, 2015 World Haiku Contest

Julie Warther

Note: For detailed comments, see the comment section of Butterfly Dream: Storm Clouds Haiku by Julie Warther.

inside

you

a

black

tulip

cups

the

evening

sun

Moongarlic, 1, November 2013

S. M. Abeles

Note: For detailed comments, see the comment section of Butterfly Dream: Black Tulip Haiku by S. M. Abeles.