Toward those short trees
we saw a hawk descending
on a day in spring
“I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.
Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.
If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.”
Haiku poem by Masaoka Shiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki
Picture by nao.k https://www.flickr.com/photos/naohiko
This haiku poem is part of the Naviar haiku music challenge, where artists are invited to make music in response to a weekly assigned haiku poem. Participation is free and there are no limitations in the songs’ length or genre.
You have seven days from the posting of this haiku to submit your track. For information on how to make a submission, visit the Naviar Haiku Music Challenge page.
Submission deadline: 3rd December 2014