{"id":211,"date":"2010-04-12T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T16:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-04-15T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:54:12","slug":"japanese-whispers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Japanese whispers: in Basho mood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Japanese<\/a>
Zen stone garden at the Komyozenji temple in Dazaifu by Chris 73: see below.<\/figcaption><\/figure>Poetic inspiration takes unpredictable, amazing shapes. In response to a recent post about poetry and sport<\/a>, there was a question about how many feet would be required for poems about three-legged racers. Chris Warren<\/a>, already on a trip to Japan, needed no incentive to write haiku but took this as a prompt to share some three-liners with me. Here are some tasters – though none are about sport. This was written ‘after a visit to a specially beautiful Zen temple stone garden’: <\/p>\n

Raked gravel ripples
\nSpread out from the grey stone:
\nWave-forms of silence\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And these show Chris, as he says, ‘in full Basho<\/a> mood’:<\/p>\n

New-leaf-green maple
\nBacklit by sunlight … and one
\ntiny bird on the branch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A black crow cries ‘Wha?’
\nOutside my window. Without
\nHeeding my reply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The last one was written ‘after an exotic trip with some Japanese Buddhist friends to a temple in the mountains’<\/p>\n

Mountain temple bell
\nHollow sound through green pine woods
\nThe whisper of streams<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Look out for more, either here or on our English and ICT site<\/a>!<\/p>\n

All poems here by and © Chris Warren. The photograph is a Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons image from Chris 73 (not Chris Warren!) and is freely available here<\/a> under the Creative Commons cc-by-sa 2.5 licence<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetic inspiration takes unpredictable, amazing shapes. In response to a recent post about poetry and sport, there was a question about how many feet would be required for poems about three-legged racers. Chris Warren, already on a trip to Japan, needed no incentive to write haiku but took this as a prompt to share some … Continue reading “Japanese whispers: in Basho mood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[55,53,54],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-chris-warren","tag-haiku","tag-japan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}