Scent of Butterfly by John Potts

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Scent of Butterfly

by John Potts

leaves fall the scent of butterfly remains These inner links of renga were an important part of Basho's haikai renaissance. So, anything we learn about that can be applied to our growing sensitivity to the internal mechanics of a hokku in its standalone anarchy. But is it so? For, do we not, as participants in this beautiful theatre of the mind (ma as Noh) that is hokku, supply a response? Just like ghosts at a phantom gathering. leaves fall the scent of butterfly remains in my moldering graveyard angel wings cast in stone Thus is tanka the reply of our heart to worlds of natural experience. leaves fall the scent of butterfly remains in my moldering graveyard angel wings cast in stone read on →

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20-Jun-2013

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