“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself”- Matsuo Basho. To follow the autumn theme from the last blog, I am doing a study on both haiku poetry and Matsuo Basho, a 15th century Japanese poet. The reason these two links to autumn in my view, is because they each value […]
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When reading a great book you will always come across a few lines or paragraphs that will make you pause for a moment, they will make you laugh, cry, gasp, look inwardly at yourself, and say ‘wow’. These parts of the book are often quoted again and again by other readers in book reviews and […]
You may be wondering; Haiku? What the heck is a haiku? A haiku is a very, very, short poem. So short in fact, that it only has three lines in English and a total of 17 syllables. The haiku originates from Japan and was previously called hokku, the name haiku came from the Japanese writer […]