REFLECTION HAIKU: Living Modern Lives the Simple Way- Lily Wang's English and Chinese Zen Shorts
Reflection Haiku: New English and Chinese Haiku ebook by Lily Wang
REFLECTION HAIKU, third and last ebook in Lily Wang's haiku series, renders 52 refreshing, 3-line formatted poems written in both English and classical Chinese on themes of life, love, marriage, time, death and more. This book makes Chinese art more accessible through haiku and the collection is concise, uplifting and tendered with the author's signature reader-friendly touch. As I wake up to a mountain of daily tasks, this book is spring water bringing in tranquility. This lens sampled haiku...

Haiku as Teacher
How to Learn Life's Most Important Lessons
One of the truly great haiku masters, Basho, once stated: Do not seek after the sages of the past. Seek what they sought. What is it they sought? Perhaps it was enlightenment, a greater appreciation for life's gifts, or a deeper self-awareness. As a perpetual seeker, I have found haiku to be an extraordinary teacher. You may be wondering what you can learn and how to go about gleaning insights from this poetic way of experiencing the world and your place in it. I invite you to begin findin...

Haiku Journey
Poetic Living - The Way of Haiku
Haiku is more than poetry to me. It is a pathway connecting me more deeply to beauty and wonder. Through haiku I have learned to live poetically. It has brought me more fully alive. My practice of haiku is not about syllable count. It is about seasons of the spirit and finding my way in the world. As a true master of haiku wrote, Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. With these powerful words, Basho captured what it is that haiku is to meboth journey and homecoming. Won't ...

Words are more meaningful using Haiku poems...can you create one?
Haiku Poems
Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that is popular all over the World. Traditional Japanese Haiku poems focus on various inspirations from nature and how humans live in it, while many newer versions display the writer's perspective and how they evolve around meaningful things in their lives. The first line usually contains five syllables, the second line seven syllables, and the third line contains five syllables - and they don't rhyme. The goal of Haiku poetry is to combine meaningfu...

The Haiku Queen's Home on the Web
I am the Haiku Queen :)
Enjoy my Haiku poems from AC, posted all in one place for your convenience! I'll be adding more as I write them, so check back often.  Feel free to leave a note in the Guestbook if you have a suggestion of a subject I should write a new Haiku about! :)

Haiku Jujitsu - seventeen syllables of self-defense
What is haiku?
Haiku is a form of poetry as boundless as the open sea and far less salty. Haiku is a perfectly passive aggressive form of self defense for those willing to obey its syllabic ways.