Basho and Haiku Poetics

A difficult year… so keep on keeping on

“…8 Haiku poems are derived from classical Japanese literature and Krishna Badami has written a series of short haikus in the classical form of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. 9 A haiku is traditionally a response to nature, evoking a distinct but unstated emotional response. Krishna's poems follow these conventions, but as far as I know, break new ground in transfusion medicine.…”