Haiku Journal

Toda’s blog requires me to make a journal about the haiku that was given. To understand this kind of poetry you would have to be in an artistic state of mind in order to interpret it in your own way. The Haiku was “what scent has the rose, when chains are heavy on your neck, what weight has the thorn” I could probably interpret this in several ways. One could be, the beauty of life, being the scent of the rose, is it corrupted or changed in any way from the weight of problems, or stress? About the what weight is the thorn, I see that as there are two parts to a rose, the good part which would be the petals, and the bad parts would be the thorns, and how much do the thorns effect your perspective of the rose in its whole. These types of haiku could be interpreted in many ways, it’s up to the reader to do it for themselves, it’s the kind of poem to really make you think, it’s the complication of it that makes you concentrate on it and how it could relate to you.