Haiku: Japanese Poetry, #1

By Noel Lorenz

This is the first book of Haiku by a simple zen practitioner, Noel Lorenz.
Haiku is an ancient Japanese form of unrhymed poetry which is mostly popular for its small size. It consists of only three lines capturing the essence of the moment pictured in it, where crafty juxtaposition plays its role. It has 17 syllables in total, spread in 5-7-5 across three lines. The author of this book has been practicing Japanese Zen meditation for several years. He has already published four books and a few more books are in the pipeline for 2020.

• Language: English
• Publisher: ABHISEK GHOSH
• Release date: Feb 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393204046

Noel Lorenz

Abhisek Ghosh (Born in 1985) is better known by his pen name Noel Lorenz is an Indian author whose major was science at college and law in post-graduation. He is a full time practitioner of Zen Meditation since 2013. He was born to Bengali parents and was raised in the city of joy, Calcutta (Now Kolkata), India. Inspired by his grandfather who was a writer but never published, writing has always been a passion from childhood. Publishing books is a dream come true. He now publishes his Hindi poetry on Instagram and English poetry & fiction writings on his WordPress blog. Visit his blog for current updates from him. Instagram @noellorenzblog WordPress Blog noellorenzblog.wordpress.com

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Preface

I HAVE BEEN READING haiku for some time. It is said, what comes out is what goes in. Haiku is something like that. After reading lots of haiku poems, I suddenly started to write a few of my own in early 2019. By the end of the year, I had written more than twenty. Last month, I decided to release my haiku poems as a book so that people can get inspired by this new book which I call a new venture.

Haiku is a very short form of poetry, and it is fun to write it. Today people have very little time to invest in anything new, let alone a new type of poetry. So reading short poems must be fun and interesting to them, I guess. This will not only give them a new thing to read but also provoke some of them to write something of their own — their