special engine

haiku crossroads This is where we need to acknowledge that haiku is driven by a *special engine*. . . ."Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine" [Basho].* Similarly, we go to the peak to dig the view. A peak, if flattened, becomes the centre. From this centre we are at the seed-place. The pine's heart's core. Its DNA program.

If we run this through haiku what do we find? We find, at the peak, at the centre and at the heart's core - a seed. Haiku's DNA.

Haiku's DNA is not exclusive to haiku. (This needs to be firmly understood, inwardly digested and acted upon.)

That is what we mean when we say: haiku is driven by a *special engine*.

All that remains is for this critical statement to be unpacked, extrapolated and translated into plain words. . . .

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"Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Your poetry issues of its own accord when you and the object have become one – when you have plunged deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there. However well-phrased your poetry may be, if the object and yourself are separate – then your poetry is not true poetry but a semblance of the real thing." (Bashō)

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