CORONA HAIKUS: visual poetry in times of isolation

This publication is dedicated to the Corona Haikus Community, which taught us the importance of creating, sharing and caring during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the world seemed to have stopped, and we looked at its stillness from the confinement of our homes, nature kept going. Many contributors nourished themselves with the unstoppable flow of nature, as if by capturing and sharing images of the sky, the sun, the sea, the moon, of trees and burgeoning flowers, we could better grasp our inter-connection while co-creating together. The Coronahaikus.com website hosts a community- curated selection of 361 Corona Haikus (taken from the 1,200 on our Facebook group), but this book focuses on what we were able to see when we took the time to observe nature. Using our cameras, and the space of our internal silences, we contemplated the natural cycles of life and found refuge in them. It is this sense of creative and mindful contemplation that we would like to offer the readers of this book.

Nature is around and inside us, and we are part of her dance. The risk, post-pandemic, would be to go back into believing that she is detached from us. If we have learned a single thing during Covid, it must be about our co-dependence. We hope that this selection of visual haikus will act as a reminder of our constant interconnection with, and through, nature.