Haiku: P-List Poppa

[Dave Monroe]

Perhaps it scans better in Japanese?

--- lorentzen-nicklaus
<lorentzen-nicklaus at t-online.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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