Moonlight Sonata

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Nature serves as my comfort while missing my family back home in my growing up years. I am not good in expressing my feelings and emotions to people. So, it's kind of weird to listen to a girl talking to trees and animals during trying times, but I did. In my grade school, I met my English teacher who taught us about Haiku Poems. And there I start to play with simple words describing my feelings through nature.

 Now, let us get to know more about Haiku Poems.

A Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry which consists of three lines; Line 1 consist of 5 syllables, Line 2 consist of 7 syllables and Line 3 consist of 5 syllables. A Haiku uses  few words to capture a moment and create a picture in the reader's mind. It discusses subjects from the natural world including the seasons to the smallest elements of nature. I call it, Celebration of Nature.

A typical characteristic of Haiku is that it focuses on nature and  instead of saying how the poet feels,..she shows the details that caused the emotion. Try looking out of the window and describe what you saw. Focus on the small detail that contains the emotion/feeling in a larger scene. Use description related to your senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell or taste and you are good to go.

Sometimes, Haiku is simple yet unusually deep, and sometimes it doesn't make sense to people until they try.
       
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Hi there! 
At last here it is, the new face of my haiku. They already have a background design, thanks to my brother William for doing this for his Ate(sister). The first haiku is my Moonlight Sonata, which was written while I am avidly listening to Beethoven's piano masterpiece, the Moonlight Sonata itself. I kept playing it from You Tube and felt the mixed fierce emotions from the piece. And there you go, a haiku made in the desert!

 Thank you  for reading! Especially to the viewers from the Middle East.
Shukran! :)

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