For yesterday’s Daily Prompt: Chaos…
clusters of seedlings
scattered randomly on air
find root from chaos.
©kat 10 May 2016
Category Archives: Haiku
Turpitude – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Happy Friday! Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day is Turpitude. It finds its roots in the Latin term turpis meaning “base, vile”, entering English in the late 1400’s. Today, it is often paired with the word, “moral”. (See below)Happy Friday! Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day is Turpitude. It finds its roots in the Latin term turpis meaning “base, vile”, entering English in the late 1400’s. Today, it is often paired with the word, “moral”. (See below)
From Wikipedia:
Moral turpitude is a legal concept in the United States and some other countries that refers to “conduct that is considered contrary to community standards of justice, honesty or good morals. This term appears in U.S. immigration lawbeginning in the 19th century.
The concept of “moral turpitude” might escape precise definition, but it has been described as an “act of baseness, vileness, or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen, or to society in general, contrary to the accepted and customary rule of right and duty between man and man.”
Perpetrators of turpitude can be found, of course, filling our prisons, but I can think of a few other places where they might hang out! Here is my haiku then. Have a great weekend!
Some fill our prisons,
Those guilty of turpitude,
Some are elected!kat ~ 6 May 2016
Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Happy Friday! What a lovely, lyrical word we have today…”Woodnote!” When I first saw the word this morning, I imagined that it must have had its origin in the mind of some 17th Century poet who penned it on parchment giving it life!
Dictionary.com simply mentioned that it came into use around 1632. And of course that was my cue to dig a little deeper. No other dictionary expounded further on the issue but I was determined to find the poet who first wrote it … I was certain it was a poet…a poet knows these things…😉
How do I love the Internet…oh let me count the ways…not the least of which, it brings the world to one’s computer screen! After a bit of search engine tweaking, I found my bard!!! Oh yes, my hunch was correct. And what was even more spectacular? The man who coined the word woodnote in 1631 (later published in 1645) used it to describe THE quintessential Bard, Shakespeare. Mystery solved!
Who is the poet? He is John Milton who, in “L’Allegro,” refers to Shakespeare as “Fancy’s child” who warbles “his native woodnotes wild.” You can read the entire poem HERE.
From the Encyclopedia Britannica…
L’Allegro, early lyric poem by John Milton, written in 1631 and published in his Poems (1645). It was written in rhymed octosyllabics. A contrasting companion piece to his “Il Penseroso,” “L’Allegro” invokes the goddess Mirth, with whom the poet wants to live, first in pastoral simplicity and then amid the “busy hum of men” in cities full of vitality.
And so, my challenge today is to pen a simple haiku using woodnote as my prompt. I do so hoping to channel a wee bit of Milton who gave us this wonderful word. Oh, if only. But knowing its origin makes my task so much sweeter!
heartsong
Of lilting woodnotes…
birdsong, wind-tossed forest whispers…
these make my heart sing!kat ~ 29 April 2016
Nana’s Jewel Box -A Haiku
This Haiku is in response to TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge prompt: “Jewel Box”. to read other haiku click HERE.
Photo from Pixabay.com
Pearlescent gems
Sleep on waves of red velvet
nana’s jewel box.kat ~ 28 April 2016
April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #26
Happy Day 26 of my challenge to myself to explore a new poetry form each day for Poetry Month. I can’t believe we are nearing the end of this journey. I would be remiss if I did not feature the Haiku.
We have a lot of fun here on WordPress with the Haiku, assigning interesting topic prompts in our challenges to each other. But the Traditional Japanese Haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables writing in a 5/7/5 count written in the present tense with a focus on images from nature. It should emphasize simplicity, intensity, directness of expression and a sudden sense of enlightenment and illumination.
The haiku’s origins can be traced back to thirteenth century Japan and was used as the opening phrase of 100 stanza oral poems called “renga”. It became its own form in the sixteenth century, perfected by the Haiku Master, Matsuo Basho.
Iris
a goddess rises
graced in amaranthine blush
Iris is her namekat ~ 26 April 2016
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