[Lee Gurga]

Originally posted by Cally Conan-Davies:
Hello Lee! Thank you for being here. I bring three absolute beginner haiku and many questions. First question stems from the inherent weakness in my attempts: are there any specific techniques for practising and effecting successful transference between images?

Cally

I think techinque is a secondary question. A more important question is: what do you have that you want to communicate to the reader? Unless an experience is inherently interesting to you, it is not likely to be interesting to the reader. So my basic advice to the beginning haiku poet is: find something interesting and then write about that.

dry leaves
skitter the concrete pond
skateboarders swoop


lap-swimming breaststroke
arms part pulling shadow-hearts
along tiled pool floor


orange nasturtiums
nudging through the paling fence ...
another way home

This one seems by far the most interesting of the three haiku. Perhaps because it so obviously something in it that is meaningful to YOU.