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Haiku: This Other World
Haiku: This Other World | Richard Nathaniel Wright, Yodhinobu Hakatuni
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Richard Wright discovered haiku through a volume of English translations of the great Japanese masters of the form. Fighting illness, and frequently bedridden, Wright became so excited about the discovery that he began writing his own haiku, in which he attempted to capture, through his sensibility as an African-American, the same Zen discipline and beauty in depicting man's relationship, not to his fellow man as he had in his fiction but to Nature and the natural world.In all, he wrote over 4,000 haiku, from which he chose, before he died, 810 he thought were worthy to be preserved. Rather than a deviation from his self-appointed role as spokesman and agent for black Americans of his time, Richard Wright's haiku, disciplined and steeped in beauty, are a culmination: by seeing Nature and the physical world through the eyes of a black man, he brought to his work a universality that transcended both race and color without ever denying them.
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dabbe
Haiku | Richard Wright
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#haikuhive
#haikuaday

Hello, busy bees, creating haikus everywhere you please!
When you share, please tag all of us so we can toast
you and your gloriously-worded post.

Anyone can join in at anytime! 🐝🖤🐝

TheBookHippie I‘m having such fun! Much needed joy. 2d
JenlovesJT47 Thanks for doing this! I‘m thoroughly enjoying myself. 🤓 Quick question 🙋🏻‍♀️: some of my haikus are more personal — anybody opposed to me posting those sorts of things? 2d
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bellabella Cute poem! 2d
dabbe @JenlovesJT47 We are here to enjoy, sympathize if needed, and to listen! 😍 Whatever you want, m'dear. 💜💚💜 2d
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dabbe @julieclair Yay, you adorable bee, you! I'm adding you to our list! 💛🐝🖤 1d
Kristy_K Love the graphic! 💛💛🐝 1d
dabbe @Kristy_K I used an image AI from Google Labs, and I was quite impressed! Here's the link if you want to try it: https://labs.google/fx/tools/image-fx 💛🐝🖤 19h
julieclair @Why thank you, lovely Queen Bee! 😀 🐝👑💛 17h
dabbe @julieclair 💛🐝🖤 16h
DebinHawaii This is so cute! 💛🐝💛 7h
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Haiku | Richard Wright
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#haikuaday
5.5.25

@TheBookHippie @TheSpineView @Kristy_K @JenlovesJT47 @lil1inblue @DebinHawaii@bellabella

Unbelievable break in the weather this week. Our last cool hurrah! 🩵🌧️💙

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dabbe @DogMomIrene There's no other smell like it. 🩵🌵💙 19h
DebinHawaii Gorgeous! 🌵🐝💛 7h
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#haikuaday
5/3/25
@TheBookHippie
@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K
@JenlovesJT47
@lil1inblue

Feel free to tag our entire l'il group when you post a haiku! 😍

ShelleyBooksie What a wonderful pic ♡ 4d
TheSpineView ❤️🐾❤️ 4d
TheBookHippie ♥️♥️♥️♥️ 4d
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#haikuaday
#day1
@TheBookHippie
@TheSpineView
@Kristy_K

If anyone else would like to join in, here's the original link:
https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2860876

TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 6d
dabbe @TheSpineView 🖤🖤🖤 6d
BooksandCoffee4Me Perfect for you and by you! 💛 6d
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dabbe @BooksandCoffee4Me Aww shucks! ☺️ TY! 😍 6d
lil1inblue 🤩😍🤩 5d
dabbe @lil1inblue Do you want me to add you to our l'il list? All I'll do is check in once a week and ask if anyone wants to post their favorite haiku from the past week. That's it. I LOVED yours, btw. 💜💙💜 5d
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BC_Dittemore
Haiku: This Other World | Richard Nathaniel Wright, Yodhinobu Hakatuni
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This is just two pages! Four haiku on each page. 817 total. Nearly all of them just like…😍

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Haiku: This Other World | Richard Nathaniel Wright, Yodhinobu Hakatuni
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Near the end of his life, Richard Wright, best known for his 1940s novel of Black repression, Native Son, (not read), began writing haiku.

To say that these are some of the best English Language haiku I have ever read is not hyperbole. It‘s evident in every line that Wright was enamored by the deceptively complex form and respected it.

Wright, a Black Man in 1950s America, found in Nature a place of belonging. Such is the power of haiku.

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Eggs
Haiku | Richard Wright
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TheSpineView I love haikus! Great choice! 😊 5y
Eggs I adore haiku and it‘s economy of words-thanks @thespineview 5y
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Our best defence is our humanity
Make this viral

I‘m sharing this poem/ thought ( haiku? ) I heard on the radio this morning!
It‘s hopeful, I like it ❤️

TrishB It‘s beautiful ❤️❤️ 5y
CarolynM ❤️ 5y
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘ll have to steal this!!! 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m hopeful and pray for everyone‘s safety! I‘m worried about our economy.. 5y
Cathythoughts @TrishB @CarolynM 👍🏻❤️❤️ 5y
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batsy Yes 💜 I hope you and your family are doing OK! Take care. 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Cathythoughts I posted this on Facebook ❤️❤️ 5y
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Cathythoughts @batsy Thanks Suba ! You take care too my friend X Cathy (edited) 5y
Cathythoughts @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I‘m not on Facebook, Misty. But it‘s a good message to send out .... take care 👍🏻❤️ 5y
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