rolling billows
ferry my love with the ebb
to reach my lover's shore—
I bear a precious gift
the stars in a bottle
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Author Notes
"The stars in a bottle " is a zen concept of oneness. Haiku comes from zen buddhism.
ONENESS is a Zen Buddhism concept (and other Eastern religions), -- Everything in the world is connected- the sky is in the ocean, the cloud is in the lake, the stars are in a bucket of water, the sunrise in a dewdrop, etc... and humans are connected too. People are inseparable. When people are born they become the wave and when they die they recede back into the ocean. Nothing changes. There really is no birth or death—just a continuation in different forms. In that way, everything is connected.
Ekphrastic: a poem inspired by a picture or painting
Contemporary Tanka is a Japanese unrhymed poem with 31 syllables arranged in five lines; English tanka is 31 syllables or LESS because Japanese and English syllables are different. Tanka originated in the 6th century. click here if you want to read modern tanka examples
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Gypsy
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