
Feet resting on the silver platter we call moon in the night sky, and head crowned with a million stars as bright as
two sad, lonely eyes that see the world through darkened glass, for this is one whose steps now lead him carefully across the sand
to touch the sea, your home, your form, and you incline your head and smile and in that instant one is born to count and bless the grains of sand that stop the sea.
C.2023, Francisco Bravo Cabrera (FBC), 21 MAR 2023, València, España
Nota Bene
The Euro-Ku is a style I have been developing since 02 FEB 2022 and I’ve invented it to honour the traditional Haiku by making it fit precisely into our Western way of thinking. The rules are simple. It is a poem, as that is what a Haiku is, in three verses. However, there is no syllabic count, but they must be coherent and punctuated. Finally the Euro-Ku, and its cousin, the American-Ku, must contain…be accompanied by…an original, unedited photograph or image. That is all.
*Geperudeta is a word in the Valencian language that refers to someone with a bent neck. Lovingly the faithful of València have given their patroness, Our Lady of the Homeless, (Mare de Deu dels desamparats) that nickname because of the head posture of her statue.

































