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 Happy New Year Everyone! I am back as a guest editor for this week.  Time for some more cool haiku techniques for a new year. 
When composing a verse let there not be a hair’s breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.
― Matsuo Bashō
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life.
― Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one’s heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.
― Santōka Taneda, Mountain Tasting: Haiku and Journals of Santoka Taneda
Haiku is a snapshot in time. no veils, no mystery—it is exactly as it reads. The mind perceives everything moment by moment. The haiku is a moment in time, pure and unblemished. Put to paper (or computer) in a short form most imitating a … moment.
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Hello fellow haijins and readers!
I have been continuing my study of Haiku and am amazed to find so many techniques that can be applied to the form. As you might know Haiku is a short three line poem with up to 17 syllables. It reveals a moment in present time where two images are contrasted or connected without using full sentences. The challenge is to have an aha moment or cut line where the reader gets to discover something from their own experience of what you saw.
I would like to share two techniques I learned from Jane Reichhold's book Writing and Enjoying Haiku and a class I took online.
The Narrow Focus Technique 
This feature was made popular by the ancient Master Buson,{1716-1784} who, as an artist as well, noticed nature in a different way.
Compare to a camera observation:
 The first line shows a "wide-angle lens" on the world
The second line switches to a "normal lens"
The third image zooms in for a close up
It brings the reader's attention to one image or fact of the haiku.
Enjoy these examples.
the short night ending
close to water's edge
a jelly fish
~Buson
a morning of snow
only the onions in the garden
blaze the trail
~Basho
old village
not a house without
a persimmon tree
~Basho
the whole sky
in a wide field of flowers
one tulip
~ Jane Reichhold
Using a Pivot as a Middle Line Technique 
In this technique, line one and then line three should be grammatically connected to the middle line. The two images are connected by the middle line like a pivot. You could read the haiku from top to bottom or bottom to top. You do not make a sentence as you pause at the end the second line.
It a good way to practice balanced juxtapositions.
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