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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