Poet and didn't know it

[nineveh_uk]

According to the British haiku society, an organisation whose website appears to indicate that their only association with the word 'joy' is that it is one syllable, a haiku 'should derive from spontaneous, concrete, personal experience in a certain moment of heightened awareness'. In that sense, the following certainly qualifies...

Holy fuck!
Through the train window
The Eiger's north face.





Actually, I think I said 'Fucking hell!', and I can't be bothered to find the volume of my diary to check if I ever wrote it down, but 'Holy fuck! scans better. It is in any case one of the most extraordinary sights in nature that I have ever seen. It bursts out of the scenery in a way that the above pic, which I have not managed to re-size, bursts out of the flist.

Comments

[moon_custafer]

I don’t know about the BHS, but I believe Mssrs. Basho and Issa would approve.

[nineveh_uk]

Thank you! Having never read any Issa, I just read this: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50983/selected-haiku-by-issa Brilliant.

[moon_custafer]

I always liked:

You stupid scarecrow!
Under your very stick-feet
Birds are stealing beans.