day moon: haiku

what is left
when the skipped stone sinks?
midday moon

That has a nice resonance. It leaves ripples in the Sea of Tranquility.

Round cool moon, round cool stone.

Please forgive me Bret, but I do not get this one. I haven't been studying Haiku for long maybe that's why.

Yo cindy!Never hesitate to call me to account.

Haiku sometimes use contrasting images, sometimes similar images. Like josh's haiku above uses the shape of a stone (skippers tend to be round like a pizza) to associate with the roundness of the moon, I was associating the neighbor's round belly with the round moon.

How do we know the moon was round and not half or quarter? Its part of the insider haiku shorthand. In the Japanese haiku tradition, they have worked out a number of encoded terms. Any reference to moon for instance, always means "full moon." If you were talking about a sliver of a moon, you would have to specify such.

In haiku land, "maple leaves" are always understood to be red maple leaves. such as those in autumn. If you meant green maple, you'd have to specify.

Sometimes "the gap" between the images is so far apart it makes figuring them out difficult. Perhaps I made too big a leap with this one. On the other hand, when I first started reading through some of the most prestigious anthologies, there were many haiku that made no sense to me. As I became more familiar with the way haiku poets constructed things, those "closed" haiku suddenly opened up.

The moon in relationship to a pregnant woman is wonderful.

I'm not entirely sure there is a relationship, I'm trying to act like there is one though. Women, lunar, cycles, shape, etc. i'm hoping there is a plausible connection. History will decide. *snicker*