No mortal foot can touch…
No light more silver white…
No distractions, always bright.
C.2024, Francisco Bravo Cabrera – 23 OCT 2024 – Valencia, Spain
NOTA BENE
The Euro-Ku, a style I developed in 2022, is the way a Western poet/writer can best approach a style of poetry native to Japan, the Haiku. As someone who does not have the history or the culture of an authentic Japanese poet, it is impossible to do justice to that honorable and long tradition. Therefore, wishing to honour the style but to give it the spirit that a work of art has when it is made in accordance to one’s place and time, I invented this new form, the Euro-Ku. It has three lines (stanzas, verses) but without a syllabic count (as our language does not have the same rhythms as the Japanese language), and each line must follow the previous one logically and sensibly. The lines cannot just go off floating in the air, as that works in Japanese but not in Western languages. And finally the poem must be accompanied by an illustration also of the authorship of the poet. Simple, clear, spiritual and in accordance to Western history and culture.
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Thank you!
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This is really amazing what you did dear Francisco. Haiku is really so beautiful and maybe more beautiful to read/to understand in its own language. The story behind the Haiku, Haiku poets, what they feel, what they have in their minds, coming in 3 lines and yes, in 5-7-5… I mean naturally coming this method… Actually it is for us to use this word «method»… because originally it comes like that to them. It should be realated with their culture, with their own language too… But the main part is orginally to drop the words in 5-7-5….. Once I was really busy about Haiku poems and I was trying to write in English language. In times I have experienced that my own 5-7-5 words in 3 lines came to my mind too, but just a few of them. Not happens always… I have to fix, I have to find the exact words in this method. Anyway, you are right, I agree with you. We are always being focus on counting the syllables… On the contrary, we should focus on the short poetic lines… So I love this Euro-ku…. Beautiful lines. Thank you, Love, nia
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Thank you so much Nia, I agree with you and appreciate your words very much. All the best.
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Beautiful poem and photo!
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Thanks you very much Dawn!
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