Haiku

morning sun
  bathed in the smell
    of newly mown grass



This haiku came to me in a beautiful morning without thinking but just from my direct experience with nature at that moment. It was triggered by a flash of memory from my childhood spent in the beautiful mountains of Bukovina.

This is the simplest and the most sophisticated form of literature in the world. It is as if it were a work not of art but of nature.
- Alan Watts

Haiku is awakening the anticipation but it's left unfinished. The reader has the same amount of contribution to the poem as the writer. The art is knowing when to stop, when enough have been said.

Everything that is formulated it is as intensity decayed.
Emil Cioran

Haiku poems are characterized by simplicity, lack of unessential and directness. It involves no symbolism, the point being more obvious. The thing that we are all looking for is just in front our eyes but we cannot see it because we look in other obscure places.

Meditation

The stream hides itself
   In the grasses
      Of departing autumn.

Leaves falling,
   Lie on one another,
      The rain beats on the rain.

A trout leaps
   Clouds are moving
      In the bed of the stream.

The fallen flower
   Returning to the branch ?
      It was a butterfly.

The wind brings
   Fallen leaves enough
      To make a fire.

Haiku poems collected by Alan Watts and extracted from "The Way of Zen".