Friday, May 17, 2019

Weekend Meditation #85: Photoshopping Haiku: Cherry Blossoms

Cherry Blossoms at Lake Biwa

even an old man
sees the beauty in the new
spring cherry blossoms

~Kobayashi Issa & Cie~


Notes:
Here is the original Haiku by Kobayashi Issa:

even an old man
has New Year's eyes...
cherry blossoms

In this exercise, we make a subtle change to the original Haiku. In Western society in the Northern Hemisphere, the New Year falls in Winter. I applied my Western sensibilities to the poem and turned the cherry blossoms into a reference for the change from Winter to Spring.
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