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[18 Nov 2005|02:25am] |
The Ninja Dancing in the Autumn Moonlight While heads fall.
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[22 Sep 2005|12:49pm] |
kutsu ga nai machi de aruite yubi... itai
a lot of people have asked me what happened to my seasonal word, but I've told them that the first line is supposed to point out that it's a warm / summery day. Although, it's open to opinion.
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| Peaceful Haiku |
[23 Jul 2005|10:40pm] |
Streaky clouds drifting evenings peachy light reflects the world is at peace
Gavin - 03/05/2005
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[27 Apr 2005|11:18am] |
Great ivy'd walls clasp close to their bosoms stone dancing partners.
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Freedom unlooked for offers time for contemplation, writing, and laughter.
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A pool of languid water sits unrippled, awaiting its frog.
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With presence of mind, great discipline, and willpower, I can relax.
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Roses and liles are not half so beautiful as the dandilion.
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We break the darkness with lanterns and torches and lbind ourselves.
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A tree's laughter is the same as a child's. Can you hear it?
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Quickly written, scribed down with pen on paper. Quickly forgotten.
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Pandas and bamboo are not familiar nature. Loon and pine for me.
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A bird in the bush is worth any number captive. Just ask any bird.
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First glance: dirty gulch; but mushrooms and moss grow at the bottom.
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A content tree stands alone in a meadow, humming to herself.
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Why rush about so when a slow and measured tread reaches the end too?
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Missing the worms over breadcrumbs and tidbits, silly birds clamour.
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Fine and private place, this boneyard with it's spectres where I write and rest.
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Trees whisper and speak sign-language to each other.
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[07 Nov 2004|02:18am] |
I'm expirementing with a new form, it's basically three haiku that work as one haiku. I'm not sure how much I consider them haiku, but what the hell, I like this poem.
walking around the dorm remembering ghosts from last year
I drop my cigarette in a mud puddle
and notice how the buildings move faster than the moon.
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[04 Nov 2004|03:07am] |
girls passing outside my window as I lay in bed
red tiled roofs in the morning sun blue skies
dragonfly hovering over the field and autumn
nighttime with nothing but a cigarette
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[04 Nov 2004|03:03am] |
Hey everyone, I plan on posting some haiku finally.
I'd like everyone to read this:
The "haiku" was invented and developed over hundreds of years in Japan to be a complete poem in seventeen syllables and to pack in a whole vision of life in three short lines. A "Western Haiku" need not concern itself with the seventeen syllables since Western languages cannot adapt themselves to the fluid syllabic Japanese. I propose that the "Western Haiku" simply say a lot in three short lines in any Western language. Above all, a Haiku must be very simple and free of all poetic trickery and make a little picture and yet be as airy and graceful as a Vivaldi Pastorella.
Thats by Kerouac, and it should probably be the basis for your philosphy when writing haiku. This isn't japanese, forget the sylables. Strive for more concision.
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