A while back I heard haiku poetry referred to as a description with a weather report. And while this may not always be the case, it’s pretty much true!
Haiku poetry uses the concept of macro and micro very well here. For example, if I started a haiku out with the fragment “cool spring day,” what we have here is a macro description of what kind of day it is - a weather report if you will.
Now, if I add a specific descriptive phrase to it like “a hummingbird darts out of sight,” we have a micro view of something happening on this day. Combined, we have this haiku:
cool spring day –
a hummingbird
darts out of sight
Good haiku poetry need not be more than a description of the general ambiance of the day and something that is taking place during the day. As long as what is taking place is happening in “a present moment” the haiku will be OK. The problem some people have is that they remove themselves from the thing “as it’s taking place” and describe something that already has or will happen. Not very haiku like at all.
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