HaikuYou: Finding Peace in Chaos
Why Haiku?
If you’re new to haiku, you may not realize the power of this poignant art form to hold the ideas, feelings, and emotions that connect us all.
Haiku You reveals this truth, traditionally arranged in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku is clean, simple, and vivid, expressing the minimalist essentials of deep, provocative expression. Devoid of the usual poetic devices such as title, punctuation, rhyme, and other distractions, it reveals the pure soul of thought and observation.
You will discover vivid wordscapes in Haiku You that evoke new appreciation for how the simplest threads of emotion, passion, and hope can connect us deeply in just three short, unrhymed lines.
“Whether we realize it or not, we are all continually influenced by the Five Elements: water, earth, wood, metal, and fire — all playing in harmony with Mother Nature in our natural world,” Janette writes. “This collection of haiku is the culmination of my work within this awareness as I tried to make sense of the chaos of the 2020 Pandemic.
“Stepping back from this very personal work, I realized in the tradition of haiku, there is a unique pulling together of the Five Elements of the natural world. This synchronicity could offer others a sense of peace in times of conflict, understanding in times of doubt, and inner truth in times of sadness.”
