Happy National Haiku Poetry Day 🌸
Today is National Haiku Poetry Day! I am enjoying learning about all these new little days of the year and their history! I've been sharing with my community so I had to acknowledge it here too because well how cool!!! Plus @Ronda Del Boccio is in a writing contest today so how fitting!! Haiku originated in 17th century Japan, evolving from a longer collaborative poetry form called renga, and was deeply tied to Zen meditation and mindfulness. The greatest haiku master of all time, Matsuo Basho, lived from 1644 to 1694 and his most famous poem is still quoted today.... An old pond, a frog jumps in, the sound of water. Simple. Profound. Timeless. National Haiku Poetry Day was established in 2007 and championed by The Haiku Foundation to keep this ancient art form alive and accessible to everyone. Three lines, Seventeen syllables, And somehow an entire feeling lives inside it!. There is something almost meditative about being forced to say everything in so few words! Here is one for this moment in the season: Intentions are set Aries fire already lit Watch what blooms from here ✨👉🏼Your turn... Drop a haiku in the comments! It does not have to be perfect... It just has to be yours! Five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables. And Go 👇🏼👇🏼 💜 Mel