Haiku Masters is an NHK Japan program that allows viewers to write in with original haiku that satisfy certain criteria. For example, one can compose a haiku which takes a particular photo as a starting point. There are a lot of talented haiku poets about and I am often impressed by their imagination and dexterity, much as I am underwhelmed by my own lack thereof.

The following is a recent winner in the photo haiku category by Corinne Timmer of The Netherlands. How impressive to write in a second language with such assurance and broad knowledge of the idiom!