Haiku Porteño

Obelisco, sol.

Empedrado brilloso.

Nonino late.

by Hebeblue

Buenos Aires - November 01, 2002

Haiku: is a very short form of Japanese poetry typically characterised by three qualities:

• The essence of haiku is the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji ("cutting word") between them.
• Traditional haiku consist of 17 sylables  in three phrases of 5, 7 and 5 on respectively.
• A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such words. The majority of kigo, but not all, are drawn from the natural world. This, combined with the origins of haiku in pre-industrial Japan, has led to the inaccurate impression that haiku are necessarily nature poems.

Porteño: in Spanish is used to refer to a person who is from or lives in a port city.