lotus pond
a frog's song vibrates
the other world
NeverEnding Story, September 7, 2024
David He
Commentary: The twist in L3 adds a spiritual/religious bent to this frog haiku when evaluated in the Buddhist context of "lotus pond" (often associated with purity and spiritual awakening/enlightenment) and "other world" (or "other shore, a literary phrase used in Buddhist texts")
Technically speaking, David's fine haiku reminds me of the following one:
pulling light
from the other world ...
the Milky Way
Yatsuka Ishihara, a revered Japanese haiku master who claimed, "A haiku should present the truth as if it were fiction," at the 1995 HSA-HI Chicago Conference
FYI: For more about Yatsuka Ishihar's work, see "Dark Wings of the Night: Yatsuka Ishihara and His Theory of Introspective Shaping"
And it might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of my haiku (allusive to Basho's frog haiku) below:
lotus pond …
all that remains
of frog song
FYI: This is the concluding haiku of my haibun, "The Old Man Who Read Basho"
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