【英语时差8，16】日本俳句风靡德国

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Cologne's haiku workshop, held at the Museum of East Asian Art, often has up to ten amateurs eager to read their latest poetry in German, a language of long words where it can often be a squeeze to distill¹ an idea into such a brief poem.

Traditional Japanese haikus are supposed to be composed of just 17 syllables³, arranged in three lines and including a "kigo": some word suggesting a season of the year.

A haiku does not rhyme, and it often draws attention to fleeting⁴ moments in nature like a plum petal⁵ falling on snow.

A typical haiku by classic author Issa is rendered in English as: my dear old village / every memory of home / pierces like a thorn.

Every child in Japan knows the centuries-old syllable² pattern of 5-7-5. In other languages, the rules are often looser but the spirit of haiku remains⁶.

"In German, you can't get as much content into 17 syllables as you might in English," explains Martin Berner, chairman of the Frankfurt-based German Haiku Society.

There are now haiku circles in several German cities, and according to Berner, there are haiku societies in more than 50 nations around the world.

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