{"id":497,"date":"2020-09-17T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/?p=497"},"modified":"2020-12-18T01:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:28:29","slug":"haiku-journal-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/haiku-journal\/haiku-journal-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiku Journal \u2013 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most of my haiku moments involve nature. But recently I was watching a recording of the cricket match between England and Pakistan. A young batsman by the name of Zak Crawley was making his d\u00e9but appearance for England. The grace, timing and balance of his flowing stroke-play produced in me the same kind of joy as might watching my cat\u2019s supple, acrobatic leaps. I was watching somebody in a state of \u2018flow\u2019, somebody absolutely in the moment, making something very difficult look effortless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an old sandstone wall running along a side-road – a wabi swabi kind of wall, reduced by time and weather to its barest essence; a textured, scraperboard, abstract painting effect, that showed there is beauty in imperfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thistle-down floating in the air in the evening sun, alighting on the other garden\u00a0plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three haiku:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

on a crescent beach
deer tracks curve from sea to sand
beneath a sickle moon<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
sea-gulls rising -
a blizzard of wings
over white sand<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
seaweed forests
sway in remembrance
of yesterday\u2019s storm<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most of my haiku moments involve nature. But recently I was watching a recording of the cricket match between England and Pakistan. A young batsman by the name of Zak Crawley was making his d\u00e9but appearance for England. The grace, timing and balance of his flowing stroke-play produced in me the same kind of joy … Continue reading Haiku Journal \u2013 3<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":500,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkskydigital.co.uk\/clients\/av\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}