Garden rambutan
Is now ripe and hanging low
To pluck when they come
I planted the tree when my first grandson was born eleven years ago. It began to bear fruit when he was about five or six years old and every time it fruits I tell him that the tree is to remind me how old is he. Now I wait for my grandchildren to come and pluck them.
7 comments:
Dear Hal,
I made a discovery just like this before. A no.of everyday happenings can result in a posting. It can be anything.To others these are something new! Great!
Hank
Akhi,
You are improving, I can say that much. I count the 5-7-5 as I read from someone saying. I wonder why can't it be 7-6-7 or any other figures. Imagine how ignorant I am
Dear Hank and PakCik,
I am still learning and my sifu Hank is doing me a great favour. I still cannot figure out why the combination is such, and like all other interesting things in the world, one just has to accept its rule.
Dear Hal and Pak Cik,
Haiku a tested Japanese verse of 5-7-5 is meant for us to start simple poetry. It need not rhyme so it looks easy. But if you check Nanka's blog below, a haiku can be a real gem.
http://nankablogs.blogspot.com/2011/11/frosty-windows.html
Take a look at #1 below where the prompt was urn (for the same prompt you wrote on Wan, Your Grandma) Nanka had a frosty window sill as an accompanying picture and there was an urn outside. Nanka writes beautiful haiku. See,it can go in any way you want but the 5-7-5 is maintained.
Haiku#1
Impetus of winds
Frost burns upon garden urns
Its vindication
Hank
Dear Hank,
Thanks for the enlightening comment,which have proven your Sifu status. As for Nanka's haiku,she is in the same league as you.
Akhi Halim, i see that you're on to poetry and progressing well on the road to haikuism. I love reading these quaint little pieces of poetic gem which often scintilate with intrinsic associative energy that agitates the imagination. Well, the 5-7-5 rule as commented on by Pakcil Al-Manar is too tight for me. BUt then good poetry can happen in just one line
So keep on haikuing. I'll always follow you.
Akhi Norzah,
It is a hobby worth pursuing, despite the tight constraint of the syllables. It is a Japanese way of disciplining the mind, I presume.
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