still snowing . . . it's time to bloom, crocus BEST OF ISSUE (Third Choice)
http://haikureality.theartofhaiku.com/haikuodab10.htm This hokku embodies the spirit of Kobayashi Issa. It is activity-biased and objective. Its focus is not the crocus (object) nor the snowfall. Centric is the second line: "it's time to bloom". The poet, tired of winter, is anxious for spring to arrive. Spring is not an object. It is nonpermanent, always changing, always coming and going, in a continuum of becomingness. Issa sometimes spoke to lifeforms via hokku, seeing them through a child's eyes. The selector—Robert D. Wilson |