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Untitled (Haiku) by Dovina

Japanese magnolia bare, but for its flowers a mother’s heart

Dovina 21-Mar-07/5:19 PM
Sentiment, morality and metaphor are not absent from Japanese haiku. Basho, Buscon, Issa, Shiki all used them. True, the Japanese almost always used seasonal references, which English writers, sadly, have thought unnecessary. And we tend to use Western literary devices, which really don’t work well in haiku.




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