Publisher's Synopsis
Intro
The present book is a collection of Haibuns I have composed over a few years. They come right out of the everyday experiences I have had; Those kinds of experiences any of us can have everyday, as ordinary as seeing a butterfly landing on a flower or a stranger riding his bicycle in the street. The point though, is to remind myself and everyone else that life is like a stream of poetry that flows in everything, even in the most mundane of things.
Life is not easy or pleasant all the time, and in fact most of the time it isn't. Yet, being able to sink into its poetry and tune our souls with it, being able to live with the Tao of life makes it an easier journey for us in our skins.
In the course of writing the book, the natural structure of a Haibun is not always followed. As an example, most of the prose sections are written in past tense instead of the present. Also, they are not always followed by a Haiku; sometimes they are followed by a Tanka, and in one or two cases they are just short prose. The reason is that to me, It is more important to preserve the feelings exactly as they happened and not conduct them into some frames. It was important to me to leave inspiration's "gift" untouched rather than turning it into something which it wasn't.
The book wishes to create the same kind of feelings in the readers as the ones the author had at the time of experiencing each condition.
