Introduction to Haiku after COVID

HAIKU is a simple and compact verse of 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern in Japanese,typically . People or Haiku poets elabolately select and arrange each word including season ones,along with sophisticated sounds to meet themes leading to share feelings, motive or even humor. It may be true that history and tradition of Haiku is emanated from cultural background and language inherent to Japan. But we can share the concept of HAIKU If we select proper words. For example , we know several types of rain with different inspiration and sound like heavy rain ,light rain, sunset rain, passing rain , or rain to allow me wet. To endorse the mentioned above, some Haiku are translated into English:

       Time will solve
       Some problems
       will await the spring
                           Haiku poet : Kyoshi Takahama
  

English Haiku contest is even held several times:

       Only oceans in-between us,
       The more afar we come from,
       The tougher we two feel bonded.
                           quoted from 5th Japan EU English HAIKU Contest 

Although COVID pandemic has given us much tragedy, we may enrich the insight from tangible value to intangible one even in sightseeing. In Koto ward , we can follow the track of great HAIKU poet , Basho Matsuo.