Haiku of the Now (Paperback)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, a haiku poem should be worth at least two or three hundred. 'Haiku of the Now' proves this statement totally true by having masterfully captured and described precious and unique moments in the very limited amount of words, or rather, syllables, as required by the long and rich tradition of haiku. Its very limitations make it so powerful and encompassing, so simple yet mind-boggling at times. In this traditionally Japanese poetic form everything is turning around the present moment. Haiku poems are easy to fall in love with they take us back to those long forgotten times of our childhood when every single moment was lived to the fullest and then the next one was met with some mix of awe and inspiration, when everything around us was precious and a single drop of rain was as important as the whole world. Back then we did not have any significant past yet, and we did not have much of a future either. Not having to worry at the time about these constraining us notions (because this is what they are), we were able to live and experience life directly and without any distortion.