![]() Kidney disease is a common ailment that affects the kidneys and is usually caused by prolonged exposure to toxins or high blood pressure. The subject should be quite obvious to readers who have followed my little blog here for a while!Īnyone else want to contribute a dragonfly haiku? Or a haiku about another insect? I’d love to hear what the rest of you can come up with, so feel free to add your haiku as comments below.In today’s post, weÔÇÖll discuss the wonderful benefits of teas for kidney health. Let’s see if you can figure out the behavior and season is conjures: But I think I need to contribute something original here too, so I wrote my own haiku. The popularity of this activity and the joy it brings the participants are clear in these two poems:Ĭatching dragonflies at the road crossing,Īnd last, I give you an example of a haiku that shows how much haiku writers appreciate the dragonfly:Īhhh… What a lovely quiet celebration of dragonflies! There’s nothing quite like a dragonfly haiku to help you appreciate the natural world. (A friend once sent me an article about a traditional method of capturing dragonflies with nothing but a short thread tied to two small rocks!). This behavior has been immortalized as haiku:Ĭan’t you just feel the dragonflies coming together and sizing each other up before one male gives way to the stronger male? It certainly conjures up this image for me!Ĭatching dragonflies has been a very popular activity for Japanese children for hundreds of years. This haiku seems to conjure up images of a species that flies at dusk (prime time for swarming and other feeding activities!):Ĭombat between male dragonflies is common around ponds and streams as each tries to attract mates by defending territories. Other Japanese haiku say something about the dragonflies themselves. Sometimes the poems evoke the beauty and wonder of both dragonflies and nature more than a specific season. This one is a lot more obvious about the season: One example seems to indicate the fall and the harvest: Dragonflies were popular subjects for haiku because they were associated with the spring and the fall and thus could act as the seasonal element in many poems. They were also supposed to include a word or phrase that indicated a season. They were supposed to conjure up memories or feelings and usually featured natural subjects. There were also rules regarding appropriate subject matter for haiku. That doesn’t diminish the essence of the poem as far as I’m concerned, but it explains why some Japanese haiku don’t fit the haiku form in English at all. ![]() This should be obvious, but the standard form of the haiku (three lines with 5-7-5 short syllables) doesn’t always translate into the proper number of syllables in English. Let’s all ease into the new work week together with a warm cup of green tea and some haiku, shall we?īut first, a few things to note about traditional Japanese haiku. Last week was a busy one for me, so I’m going to kick off this week right by sharing some lovely dragonfly haiku. I love the neat, short little dragonfly haiku! They are so happy and full of natural imagery that I find calming and good for the soul. They have also inspired many Japanese poets, especially those who compose haiku. ![]() ![]() Dragonflies inspire art, literature, textiles, and design. Dragonflies are seen as harbingers of life and prosperity, birth and renewal, happiness and strength. In contrast to most Western cultures, cultures that have typically feared and hated dragonflies (look for a whole post about this soon!), the Japanese have a much more positive attitude about their odonates. If there’s one thing that I find particularly appealing about Japan (and other Asian cultures), it’s the attitude the Japanese have toward dragonflies and damselflies.
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