Interesting. I'm no student of either tanka or haiku, but the line "Autumn
cries for spring..." is completely at odds with the spirit of zen (well, haiku
at least - but not sure about tanka). Autumn does no such thing. Sounds like
the poetry of Keats or Shelley claiming that the 'trees mourn our passing
years' or other such subjective/anthropomorphic sentiments. I take it then
that tanka follows a more human, sentimental and therefore subjective route
than haiku?
>There is no season
>Yet spring follows each winter
>Autumn cries for spring...
There is nothing to attain,
Yet each day zazen, zazen.
...Bill!
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