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{ 2004 09 27 }

Hebrew Haikus

I couldn’t resist this challenge on a mailing list I subscribe to. As someone pointed out there, a haiku should be about nature or seasons, otherwise it’s a senryu.

אֲסַפֵּר לִבְנִי
עַל יְצִיאַת מִצְרָיִם
בְּחוֹדֶשׁ אָבִיב

פָּך שֶׁמֶן אֶחָד
נָתַן אוֹרוֹ בְּחוֹרֶף
לִשְׁמוֹנָה יָמִים

שֶׁבַע הֲקָפוֹת
עֲרָבוֹת בְּעוֹז חוֹבְטִים
גֶּשֶׁם לִבְרָכָה

Posted by Simon on Monday, September 27, 2004, at 11:48 pm. Filed under Hebrew language and literature. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Senryu | Saturday 12th August 2006 at 4:46 am | Permalink

    Senryu…

    A basic tenet of Buddhist philosophy holds that the cause of all suffering is the inability to perceive the real nature of things.Defi……