A new poetry form is introduced by Colleen Chesebro for the weekly challenge and one that combines the visual and the spoken word. Time to get the thinking caps on…time for some Haiga…
Since so many poets are inspired by photos, drawings, paintings, or other images when they compose their poetry, I wanted to add the “Haiga,” a dramatic poetic form to my weekly syllabic poetry challenge starting the first week of February 2019. So, for the new challenge posted on 2/5/19, this will be another acceptable form for our syllabic challenge.
Haiga is sometimes called observational poetry because it contains an image with either a haiku or senryu written on it or near it.
This one form combines three artforms: imagery (photographs or original art), poetry, and calligraphy.
The site, ahapoetry.com shares this about the Haiga:
“Haiga is a Japanese concept for simple pictures combined with poetry, usually meaning haiku. In Basho’s time,haigameant a brushed ink drawing combined with one…
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Many thanks for sharing, Sally. You’re the best. ❤
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Pleasure Colleen..hugsx♥
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