Contents Page - Halibun

A variation on the Haiku, the halibun consists of a haiku and a descriptive text and / or picture to go with the haiku.

This is a calssical form of Japanese poetry, and gain is in the 5-7-5 syllable pattern.

It is the second of the experimental forms of poetry that Tomas is dabbling in.

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All Gone... Home?
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While on holiday in Serbia, in Banat our car drove through village, and we were told it was once a totally German village, and now home to 26 nations.

Those who held the land
Who built a Reich proud and true
Are like their great state..

Where are those today
Who here lived before the war?
All gone... home... they say.

There is no German now
Heard spoken on the street:
Echoing the air

On leaving the village of the twenty six nationalities, by its complexity being the exact opposite of what it was, it stayed in my brain that the monoethnicity of its origions was reinforced.

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Love of God, Hatred of Man
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Monastries in Kosovo hold some of the most militant churchment, who pray to the God of love, and then preach war and hatred of their neighbour.

Singing choirs sang
Songs of praise to the God they love
And hate fellow man

History hatred bred
And hatred breeds nothing
But more of itself

So they sing to God
And worship Jesus on high
And hate fellow man