Bush Haikus – Simple Poems for a Simple Presidency

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Here are topline definitions from the Haiku Society of America, and readers can go to this Haiku Society of America page for more details: A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition. A senryu is a poem, structurally similar to haiku, that highlights the foibles of human nature, usually in a humorous or satiric way.

Were the poems in H is for Haiku originally written as an alphabet-inspired collection? And some were previously published in journals decades ago. My fuzzy memory tells me she may have submitted as far back as the s. This has been a long and zigzagging timeline, by any measure. Syd was a teacher, and she had this desire to publish a poetry picture book, preferably a haiku A-B-C reader.

I think she wanted kids to illustrate it, although she also had illustrators she liked in mind in one old cover letter I found, she mentions Arnold Lobel. After her sudden death in October of , her family promised to try and publish her dream book. But I managed to curate a good compilation.

Syd was a charter member of the Haiku Society of America. Can you talk about her work with the HSA?

Examples of Haiku Poems

HSA celebrates its 50 th anniversary this year. Syd attended the founding meeting in October of HSA memorialized Syd by reading some of her work shortly after her death in In addition, Frogpond published a lovely memorial page in its December issue. It also published one of her posthumous haiku in a issue. Her first published haiku in a journal was in in American Haiku although I believe she may have published haiku even earlier, in the poetry column of a now-defunct newspaper. HSA and all things haiku—and writing overall—were important, even essential, components of her life.

Creative expression was aa important to her as breathing. The haiku in H Is for Haiku have such a wonderful sense of active observation and eye for personality and fun.

Do you remember this as a quality of your mom while you were growing up? Mom had a playful, offbeat, and I think an innate optimistic spirit. She tried to instill this expansive sense of curiosity in my brother Nathan and me.

I have come to realize that mom looked forward to each new day as jam-packed with the possibilities for new experiences. And she sought them out for herself and her family. I read that you also write poetry. Can you share a little about your work? I especially enjoy the process of trying to write haiku and senryu. Some of my work has been published. Thanks to social media, I find inspiration in the work of other poets today, especially haiku and senryu poets and others, as well. Our pixilated cats, for example, were a wellspring of inspiration!

And New York City, of course, offers an inexhaustible supply of both small and big moments. Or I will be walking to the bagel shop for an iced coffee, and something out of nowhere—the peep of a sparrow in a forsythia bush, a squashed pine cone on the pavement—will draw my attention. And mom, it turns out, has had more of an influence on me that either one of us could have imagined. I like to think she would be pleased with this book.

And of course, kids and their parents! The poetry and kidlit communities are caring and supportive. Her delicately lined drawings are infused with vibrancy from a gorgeous color palette. H is for Haiku would make a terrific gift for poetry lovers and a wonderful addition to home, school, and public library collections. Discover more about Sawsan Chalabi and view a portfolio of her work on her website. Sydell Rosenberg and her daughter Amy enjoying the park n Syd received her M. Can you talk a little about your mother and her love for haiku and senryu?

How she may have stumbled upon these poetic forms, I wish I knew.


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Mom always was a writer — short stories, poetry, literary and word puzzles, and more. Syd wrote in English and in Spanish and translated literature from and into Spanish too. This was in the early s! This potboiler sold a respectable number of copies. In the s, as a still-young wife and mother, perhaps she was restless and searching for a challenging format to test her talents and reflect, or give credence to, her singular way of viewing the world around her. Syd was a native New Yorker who loved nature and found marvels in mundane moments.

Perhaps the lucid qualities of haiku and senryu, with their concise yet intense focus on such things, gave her—paradoxically—the amplitude she wanted to express her vision and ideas. What is the difference between the two forms? Poets spend years studying and they labor over their work. These are difficult forms to write well.

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Like any creative art, it takes practice. Here are topline definitions from the Haiku Society of America, and readers can go to this Haiku Society of America page for more details: A haiku is a short poem that uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition. A senryu is a poem, structurally similar to haiku, that highlights the foibles of human nature, usually in a humorous or satiric way.

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Were the poems in H is for Haiku originally written as an alphabet-inspired collection? And some were previously published in journals decades ago. My fuzzy memory tells me she may have submitted as far back as the s. This has been a long and zigzagging timeline, by any measure. Syd was a teacher, and she had this desire to publish a poetry picture book, preferably a haiku A-B-C reader.

I think she wanted kids to illustrate it, although she also had illustrators she liked in mind in one old cover letter I found, she mentions Arnold Lobel.

History and Structure of Haiku Poems

After her sudden death in October of , her family promised to try and publish her dream book. But I managed to curate a good compilation. Syd was a charter member of the Haiku Society of America. Can you talk about her work with the HSA? HSA celebrates its 50 th anniversary this year. Syd attended the founding meeting in October of HSA memorialized Syd by reading some of her work shortly after her death in In addition, Frogpond published a lovely memorial page in its December issue.

It also published one of her posthumous haiku in a issue. Her first published haiku in a journal was in in American Haiku although I believe she may have published haiku even earlier, in the poetry column of a now-defunct newspaper. HSA and all things haiku—and writing overall—were important, even essential, components of her life.

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Creative expression was aa important to her as breathing. The haiku in H Is for Haiku have such a wonderful sense of active observation and eye for personality and fun. Do you remember this as a quality of your mom while you were growing up? Mom had a playful, offbeat, and I think an innate optimistic spirit. She tried to instill this expansive sense of curiosity in my brother Nathan and me.