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Haiku

1. Definition
Haiku (also called" haiku ") is a poem form Japanese fixed. It consists of three lines which are respectively five, seven and five syllables.

2. Japanese Haiku
Born outside the X ^e century haiku was long a sort of game, a poem intended to attract attention with a dash of humor, the evocation of an unusual detail. In the XVII th
century monk Matsuo Munefusa better known by the name Basho is based on the tradition of Zen Buddhism to make haiku a spiritual exercise.
Haiku become the word that serves to recall the virtues of silence and the emptiness of all speech.
Haiku likes to talk about the nature and after Basho, the rule is established to serve through a word or an indirect index, one of the four seasons.

This way, Nobody takes That autumn sunset. Basho, quoted by Henri Brunel The haiku , Librio.

trap octopus Moon Dreams fluttering summer Basho, Ants in without shade, the book of haiku, Phoebus.

"The Japanese offer," said Paul Claudel, in poetry as art in a sense very different from ours. Ours is to say everything, all to express [...] In Japan, however, on the written page or drawn from the most important is still left to silence "and the haiku is indeed appears to be a break in the silence of the blank page.

3. Haiku in France

The first collection of haiku French, Over water is directed by Paul-Louis Couchoud returned from a trip to Japan and two of his friends Albert Faure and Andre Poncin. Matured during a trip by barge carried by the three friends, the collection circulates anonymously in Paris in 1905 which has already succumbed to the fashion of Japanese prints.

The old canal Under the shade monotonous Was gray-green Over Water , Thousand and One Nights.

Pastor Took A pretty good for Catholic Over Water , Thousand and One Nights.

In 1920 the NRF publishes an anthology of haiku, which included poems by Eluard, Caillois ... "Eleven haiku by Paul Eluard.

A feather in the hat gives an air of lightness
The chimney smokes

Eluard, "11", To live here, eleven haiku .

Claudel, former ambassador to Japan, publishes his thoughts on Japanese culture in The Black Bird in the rising sun (1929) but with hundred sentences for a range it is exercised in art of haiku and paid tribute to Japan by placing the text next to ideograms composed by Japanese artists.
is from the seventies that haiku in France raises renewed interest. If the initial formal constraints are rarely met, the conciseness of expression, a certain sense of timelessness, an ontological inquiry remain.

Guillevic Eugene (1907-1997) refractory to readily image uses a condensed form of haiku to question the mysteries of nature:

water in the pond To keep occupied East time. Guillevic, Spheres.

In Towpath , The wolf and the moon , Yvon Le Men (B. 1953) returns to the essence of haiku and if he does not seek to return the form completely, it captures the spirit:

Ivy leaf in the current aware where is she? Yvon Le Men, The towpath .

night it does not fall down in the day Y von Le Men, The wolf and the moon .

The recent anthology of John Antonnini, the many associations of amateur poets are on the web reflect the enthusiasm growing genre.