Haiku: P-List Poppa
lorentzen-nicklaus
lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de
Fri Jan 26 03:42:42 CST 2001
David Morris schrieb:
> >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, s~Z wrote:
> >
> > > These new kids are great, aren't they?
> >
> >On Thursday 25 Jan, Mark David Tristan Brenchley wrote:
> >
> > ?
> Our Grampa s~Z
> Bouncy-bounces us kiddies
> On his knee (avoid his lap)
> Wheee! Whee! Wheee, Grampy!
david, please don't call this a haiku! a haiku has three lines and the
syllable structure: 5 - 7 - 5. i know that there is a tendency in america to
call every kind of short poetry "haiku". yet, the original structure is, imo,
a special quality of the haiku, working as a counterpart to the everyday
openness of its content. somehow like baudelaire's freakish poetry becomes
even more disturbing through his staying with the classical sonnet form in
some of his best poems.
and then it's not quite fair ... our self-declared meta-host would really like
to answer the question, but in fact he can't ... you know, in cali there's
these days that shortage of electricity ...
be seeing you: kai
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