Go to where the silence is and say something.
– Amy Goodman
Tag: silence
Quotable 398
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
– Joyce Carol Oates
haiku 477
big truck goes by
hollow silence
follows
haiku 383
late winter night
heavy rain, thunder
interrupt drought’s silence
haiku 314
siren
briefly fills
the night’s silence
#quikfic 90
The police hadn’t found the missing baby. In one corner of the crib, the big teddy bear just sat and smiled and said nothing.
Pen to Paper: Haiku Silence
It’s been a while since I did a piece about haiku. Cletis was kind enough to ask for a handful of my poems to share at his blog, and that has me thinking about haiku again.
I intend to say very little, however, in keeping with the subject which Angelee Deodhar has so exactingly written about: how haiku conveys silence. The very idea of using words to describe silence seems paradoxical, and yet a well-written haiku can accomplish this deftly.
More, I need not say; on to Angelee’s essay.