Haiga

Haiga

Haiga is a Japanese art form combining haiku, written in calligraphic script, with a painting. The painting may not be an illustration of the poem. Instead, the poem and the painting may be in juxtaposition to one another — so that their contrast may create fuller meaning.

I am watching

ongoing forbearance

Expected gifts

Your heart, your spirit,

your desire

holds me in this place

this state

somewhere, halfway between

fantasy and realty,

on the brink of discovery

for two, I and you, moving

through to another time

another place, a shared

adventure, unimagined

before now

this friendly precipice

from which we will

both jump

without parachutes

into the abyss

Ellecee

(the above is not haiga in the strictest sense, but my own creation using the concept in broader terms)