To try to describe an idea, a feeling, a universe of the soul only in three
phrases, is an enormous
challenge, and
to have the capacity to obtain it, is a
talent of few.
This is the great feat of the haiku, lyrical structure of 17
syllables, born in
Japan and little spread still around in the world. Its composition in the east
usually are more rigid in comparison with the western texts, that escape of
their rule in great measure, since the phrases must include 5-7-5
respectively syllables.
Some authors of Hispanic speech, like Juan Jose Tablada and Mario Benedetti,
have inmersed in this poetic
challenge, giving to the reading public a feast of
fast and deep reading.
The work of Benedetti, “Haiku corner”, captures the reader with 224
micropoetries, each cautivating, delirious, painful, humorous or challenging.
The haikus wake up playful and rythmical ideas in the writer and the reader,
returning from the poetry a game world and brief and deep music, that splits
head open the imagination. Each one contains an education that is in the
memory and deepest of the heart.
Mario Benedetti says it thus:
“Who would say
the truliest weakest
never give up”.