Haiku 01 Poem by Masaoki Shiki

Haiku 01

Rating: 3.8


In the coolness
of the empty sixth-month sky...
the cuckoo's cry.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM

Speechless...a worthy descendant of the great haiku pieces! Profound and expressive, the cuckoo is probably his despair to the supposed assurance of recent happy events. It presents the real, empty, shallow attitude of(his?) world.

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Esther Hudson 25 November 2008

so good. you are a good poet.

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M Asim Nehal 03 December 2016

This can be interpreted in many ways and in many terms......Simply superb.

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Fabrizio Frosini 23 July 2016

a beautiful haiku, indeed, but one of despair - I'd say (probably because of Shiki's illness) . See the following [a hokku by Basho]: there is not that 'emptiness' in Basho's verse.. the moon is shining in all its beauty: '' a cuckoo cries / and through a thicket of bamboo / the late moon shines '' [Matsuo Basho]

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* Sunprincess * 29 April 2014

.........love to hear the cuckoos cry...beautiful

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Colleen Courtney 29 April 2014

So simply beautiful!

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Captain Herbert Poetry 27 April 2014

Cool to read. beautiful meter

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