Word: haiku
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...Hammarskjold began writing haiku, 17-syllable poems based on a Japanese form. Translations by W.H. Auden of some of Hammarskjold's haiku appear below...
...world's conflicts. His very immobility was reassuring; at times he seemed the still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that this dispassionate diplomat was a tormented man who poured out his emotions in highly impassioned poems, aphorisms, haiku and prayers, dealing, as he put it, with "birth and death, love and pain-the reality behind the dance under the daylight lamps of social responsibility...
...tired for company, You seek a solitude You are too tired to fill is a haiku that the Japanese masters might be proud of. But he believed that "in our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action...
...twanging accompaniment of background music that would better fit a Kabuki drama, these five bleeding hearts go the way of all flesh. En route, they converse in quaint prose poems reminiscent of haiku...
...tone of the movie is closely akin to traditional abbreviation in the Japanese haiku poetry from. However, the story departs from the familiar "Eastern Western" by taking a contemporary subject, the life of a peasant couple and their two young sons on a small hilly island in the Inland Sea. The island serves them as home and farm, but with one awful reservation: there is no fresh water. Each day must be spent in continuous trips to the mainland to get water for drinking and irrigation...