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About this Book:
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Ruth Nott’s “Haiku for Lovers” is dedicated “to love’s idea - to love, the experience - to love unending”. Come take a journey into reality, into life in seventeen syllables. See how love begins, grows, and changes over time.
Haiku was the beginning, a three-line poem with syllable counts of 5, 7, 5, no rhyme and no particular metre, with a reference to the seasons of the year, which is considered obligatory in Japan. Then it evolved in to haikai (linked haiku), senryu (haiku without a seasonal reference, dealing with human nature), and other various forms with various differences. The dividing lines can become blurred, and Ruth’s lines may better be described as senryu’ however, she prefers the use of the more recognizable term of haiku for her title.
Delving into love from its earliest playful beginnings to its passionate consummation, through losses from death to betrayal, Ruth shows that, in the end, love is enduring even if only in memory.
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About the Author:
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Ruth Nott is 64, retired, and living in Chiefland, Florida. Ruth has been writing poetry for many years, and her work has been used in several small press publications, Quilt World magazine, Poetry Canada, Whatever is Pure Ezine, Healingtherift.com, and in anthologies of the International Library of Poetry. Ruth’s work is often spiritual, inspirational, romantic, or occasionally amusing.
Ruth is a member of the Suwannee River Poets, the Sunshine Poets, and the Florida State Poets Association. Her list of self-published books include “A Pure and Simple Faith” (2005), “Family Matters” (2006), “Crazy Patch” (2007) and “Haiku for Lovers” (2007).
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