At the beginning when I started to work on my project I knew nothing about haiku, I just wanted to make some posters about environmental causes.
As a first step I started to read about environmental problems and pollution and the conditions that we human create. As a second step, I started to look for some phrases about the environment to be used as titles. I couldn't find anything from books or magazines. One of my friends told me about haiku and loaned me some books.
All that day I couldn't leave my room. I just read and read. It is amazing how directly the haiku speaks to the heart. Any time that I read a haiku, I ask myself:
"who is this talking to"?
For example:
xxxxxxxxxxxx "Oh snail !
xxxxxxxxxxxxcclimb Mountain Fuji
xxxxxxxxxxxxbut slowly, slowly"
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Issa)
Who is this snail? What is she/he doing on Mountain Fuji?
He can be the poet .She can be me, it can be anybody.
We all are climbing our life's Mountain Fuji... but we should go slowly, slowly, so as not to miss what is important to learn from the journey.
Any thing in the world can illuminate another. we must be open to that. Here is another massage for all of us: ZZZZZZ
xxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx "You might be really cold

ccccccccccbut never make yourself warm

zzzzzxxxzzzzthe snow Buddha"

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Basho)


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