Greetings, Steemit's creative people, art and nature lovers:
As you surely know, haiku is a poetic genre of great subtlety born in Japan, a country that cultivates the beauty of the tenuous, as evidenced by the invention of the ikebana, the bonsai and the kokedama, as examples. Through the record of seemingly nontranscendental events, the haiku seeks to awaken resonances in the depths of the unconscious. Its structure, which at first sight is very simple, since it consists of three verses without rhymes of five, seven and five syllables respectively, seeks to fascinate us with the beauty of the austere, the unfinished.
I wanted to try to make a haiku as part of the tasks assigned to us by the Cuban poet José Manuel Espino, facilitator of a Children's Poetry Workshop that he led here in Caracas, Venezuela, and that left in me great memories and small fruits that perhaps they will become a book to help children love nature more and more each day. To make this haiku I was inspired by the briefness and beauty of the Stolk wellspring. And to capture the interest of English speakers, it occurred to me to translate it into that language, trying, of course, to respect the apparently simple structure of this poetic form.
Here I add the original poem and its English version:
se lanza hacia el abismo.
La convoca el mar.
hurls itself to the abyss.
The sea summons it.
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↑ The Stolk wellspring is a spring that born near the summit of the Naiguatá peak, the highest peak in the Waraira Repano National Park, located in the north-central region of Venezuela and the third highest in the Caribbean region, where hikers built a small dam, and put a metal tube in it, that allows us to collect water for our long trek. Located about 2,700 meters above sea level, it is the highest water source in the central region of Venezuela and it is the only source of water available in many kilometers of steep roads. This small but very useful dam owes its name to Armando Stolk, who together with Pablo Aguirre, H. Soriano and Jean Notz, members of the Centro Excursionista Caracas, who were able to culminate, on February 18, 1935, after three days of walking, the first ascent from the coastal town of Naiguatá to the summit of the peak, 2,765 meters higher. This is an extremely difficult route that very few have managed to conquist.
↑ At the foot of the Stolk spring, El Abismo (the Abyss) opens up, a cliff more than 500 meters high at the base of which the Cerro Grande River is born, one of the waterways that begin their short journeys on the northern slope of the Waraira Repano National Park to then flow into the Caribbean Sea a few kilometers later. Someone, who can know who it was, wrote El Abismo with letters made of rocks. As it usually happens, since marine air currents and high mountain breezes converge in the area, the white fog covered the landscape, so the photo does not allow you to see the green of the nearby mountains and the blue of the Caribbean Sea, at the bottom.
↑ You can get an approximate idea of what the Abyss and the Caribbean Sea look like with this picture taken by me on another occasion while I was ascending the Pico Oriental (the Eastern peak), located west of the Naiguatá peak. Of course, you must remember that the latter is the highest in the park, so the dimensions are larger.
↑ I took this selfie picture inside a very small cavern formed by stones at the foot of the Stolk spring, whose brief water flows through it, producing a beautiful music of falling drops. My skin was red because the solar radiation was strong even though the sky remained cloudy for most of the route. That's why it's so important to always use UV blockers while we are outdoors.
↑ These little bamboos cover the exact point where the small flow of water, which has just been born about three meters higher, is thrown towards the deep cliff of The Abyss to be reborn and turned into a river, one of the longest in the national park.
Be careful because you can fall and you're not made of water!!!
(All texts and photos published in this article have been written and made by me)
I hope you liked this review. More information about haiku can be found at:
In spanish: http://proyectoidis.org/haiku/
In english: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/haiku-or-hokku
I also invite you to enjoy "FOTOPOESÍA desde la poética de la luz", a digital book published by the Colectivo Editorial La Mancha, in which the haiku I shared with you today was included. I assure you that you will have a very full aesthetic experience:
https://issuu.com/colectivolamancha/docs/fotopoes_c3_8da_8da_20-issuu-
Finally, and after wishing you harmony in your successes, I suggest you visit my blog at:
@yomismosoy
I love this haiku thanks for sharing!
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Wonderful post and loved the haiku:)
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Your haiku shows deep insight, @yomismosoy ♥ Loved it.