Image by A_Different_Perspective from Pixabay
a string nest of plastic things.
Poison for a bed.
This Haiku is a reaction to how the human species sees the seas as its personal dumping ground. Believe me, I've seen it first hand on numerous occasions. Every scuba dive I've been on in the last 10 years I have returned to the surface with a BCD pocket full of plastic picked from the ocean floor. New technologies of biodegradable plastic-style containers are now available, which begs the question, why are poisonous plastics still used at all? The answer, money!
This was not a typical Haiku as the second line ran on from the first, but hopefully the poem expresses some of what makes the form great:
Mono no aware (物の哀れ), empathy with nature and human life; the "feeling of things", nostalgia, regret for the passing of time, understanding of the changeability and of the transience without suffering.
Yūgen (幽玄), sense of wonder and mystery; it represents the state of mind produced by the inexplicable fascination of things, the feeling of an 'other' universe, full of mysterious unity.
Wabi (侘寂), the taste for frugal and natural things, rustic simplicity, freshness or silence; it can be applied to both natural and artificial objects, or even non-ostentatious elegance.
Reference from @bananafish Mizu No Oto Haiku Competition
This is day eleven of my month long challenge - from the 06th of August until the 06th of September - to post a daily Haiku on steem. Each week will have a different theme based on picture prompts from either Pixabay.com or Unsplash.com. This week's broad theme is man vs nature.
I have created a new tag #monthofhaiku. If anyone wants to replicate the challenge please feel free, I will check the tag occasionally and try to curate the better Haiku. However, this is not meant to be a challenge to the writers' community. I have an extremely busy month ahead, and I started this as a personal challenge so that I didn't drift away from posting on steem. Please, forgive me if I'm slow to respond to comments or am not around on discord, I have had to reassess my priorities over the last few weeks.
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