Three Hundred and Twenty-One Haiku: Intimate Reflections

The aim of the haiku poem is minimalistic: to crystallise the power of insights into a strict structure and short sequence of words. They capture instants of time in the life of a poet. This volume of over three hundred haiku describes these moments in time with maximum discipline, for a haiku has its own timeless code of expression which the poet must obey. In this work, Michael J. Lee observes nature, society and himself caught up in their passage through time. The bulk of the poems were ...