AUTUMN
TOWN THREE
These
haiku and the cheap phone photos (like snapshots) come from a rainy
autumn April day in Lismore, New South Wales in Australia (hence
April is an autumn month in the southern hemisphere).
In
poetry form tends to be apparent in a more obvious way than in prose.
Where there is form mathematical aspects can be found. For instance,
the traditional haiku is a syllabic form of three lines. The first
line has five syllables, the second seven and the last five. These
are the third and fourth prime numbers ( 2, 3, 5, 7,
11, 13, 17, 19, 23 etc ). They are the smallest practical prime
numbers for the little poem that, being prime cannot be broken up
into equal parts, apart from themselves and one. For instance, 8 is
not prime and can be two groups of four or four of two.
Hence this helps
prevent a sort of micro-symmetry occurring in these short lines. The
total number of syllables , namely seventeen, is also a prime number.
AUTUMN
TOWN THREE
One
On
April-grey sky
Jacaranda
leaves soft-dance
To an unseen breeze.
Two
After
dry summer
Later
rain has painted field
Green
under sky-grey.
Three
By
concrete pathway
Are
past summer days- brown, dead
Leaves
on rain-green grass.
Four
Thin
rain on autumn
Town.
Above grey streets through grey
Cloud
sun blazes white.
Five
Under
shops, under
Lights,
cars- and beyond light of
Autumn
afternoon.
