Open Eye, Open Heart

About the Book

Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry perfected between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by masters like Basho, Buson, and Issa.

Haiku illuminate what is happening in this place at this moment. They are short, concise, immediate, created out of direct experience.

My Haiku are an invitation to share wondrous, feeling encounters I have with Nature, and with my nature.

Two Sagas The haiku are followed by two sagas. These are derivatives of haiku. They are palpable, direct exposures of my heart made up of immediate experience.

About the Author

Stanley Hockman has spent inspiring times in the forests of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, and in the mountains, deserts and islands of many other countries.

It was in these places that most of his poetry was written.

He has been a life-time seeker, frequent doubter, and now finder of a spirituality that can be used practically on a moment-to-moment basis.

He believes the world can be healed only by raising his own conciousness and helping others raise theirs - achieving this by adhering to the prime directives of awareness, honesty and responsibility in all actions, and knowing that love is all there is.

He has been the CEO and executive producer of major television and movie production companies; a university lecturer in economics; a creative advertising writer with international advertising agencies in London and New York; a marketing consultant with Boeing; a journalist; a screenwriter; the owner/operator of an Italian restaurant; and a dancer in and the artistic director of a ballet company.