Oct
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Harvest Moon—
the laptop's program is
God
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trance of mirrors—
scrying the wind's leaves
through a Kodak's lens
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sparkling—
the 10,000 things, behind
a toadstool
'The 10,000 things'. This is a euphemism for the countless discrete bits of creation - mysteriously manifest out of nothingness into somethingness. In this haiku it is nighttime, and the stars (or dew) and all the events which evolved and maintain a toadstool come to mind. We are at ground level, observing. . . .
"Tao gives birth to one,
One gives birth to two,
Two gives birth to three,
Three gives birth to ten thousand beings.
Ten thousand beings carry yin on their backs and embrace yang in their front,
Blending these two vital breaths to attain harmony."
-- from chapter 42, E. Chen (tr.)
More
http://taomanor.org/10000.html
https://sites.google.com/site/inthesoundofwater/home/plip/10-000
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he nights are drawing in
even the people
their faces
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sycamore's people—
whirlybirds challenge
leaves
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Petticoat mottlegill
jewel in the
cowpat
Panaeolus sphinctrinus. A sillycybin 'laughing mushroom' variant (this was why 'in' not 'on', otherwise the literary connotation would have failed, also).
Petticoat Mottlegill | Wild About Britain
Smallish white fungus with mottled gills that turn black, found in trooping groups in fields and pastures and on manure.
Issa's laughing mushrooms haiku is one of his all time greats. Was glad to see the appended notes unfold the meaning more for any uninitiated reader. BUT. There is one point I'd like to add. Issa is portraying ultra cool nonchalance. As a (presumably) seasoned magic mushroom user he is feeling the 'horrors' coming on. The flip side of psychedelic heaven. His deflective suggestion to the king of hell (regional personification of the 'horrors') is totally original and totally apt. Haiku (and 'stoned') humour at its sublime apotheosis (sic). Also, the idea of having a ' bite of laughing', is about the best (simple) pre-punchline cut (kire-ji) line I've ever noticed in a haiku.
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anciently—
grazing inbetween
the message of mycellium
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COMING SOON: AN *UNEXPURGATED* INTERVIEW WITH THE UNKNOWN HAIJIN
"When one follows one's bliss one is bountiful in the gaps." - The Unknown Haijin
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COMING SOON: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE UNKNOWN HAIJIN
"When one follows one's bliss one is bountiful in the gaps." — The Unknown Haijin
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Orb-net. Nutshells everywhere over the last few days. This morning the rain had been
and gone, leaving all the nutshells useful for very small beings to bathe in. Bending
closer...they were all mirrors.
/
October,
March's mirror—
in a nutshell
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channelled from Basho—
TV cameras track a toadstool
ginko
This post is a loose Honkadori (reference to an earlier work) of one of my favourite Basho haiku.. . .
On a journey,
Resting beneath the cherry blossoms,
I feel myself to be in a Noh play.
I try not to filter Matsuo's vivacious inner haiku diorama, his little virtual movie, through the Georges Seurat filter (browse Google images). Many of us will know where that haiku's subject is at, I'm sure. But, an interesting question leaps into the leafy pond: What on earth is that altered state of consciousness dear Basho is, over the centuries, pointing out?
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69 days to go—
a Robin redbreast empties
her old kettle
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solid of moonlight—
autumn's empty
church
The posted haiku is the original, in situ.
STUDIO VARIANTS
solids of moonlight—
autumn's empty
graves
solid of moonlight—
autumn's empty
wood
solids of moonlight—
autumn's empty
village
solids of moonlight
the lichen stump
in autumn
L1 could be changed/re-applied. . . .
MEMO
Must think up a name to distinguish between synthetic and true-to-experience shasai type ku. Maybe: spinku, or artku, or poemku ... ?
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sitting in empty trees
danglings of
mist
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twinkling panaroma—
the cows and sheep
our breath
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two domes reflect
yesterday's sunshine—
crunch of nuts
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in the shape of a goose
the flock via cirrus
head south
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"Betwixt and between Lao Tzu's "way" and Chuang-Tzu's "wayless way" there must be
a point of balance." - jp
wayward
this leaf and I—
detached
"What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." Lao Tzu
“I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?” Chuang Tzu
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tiny tongues of fire
in autumn's inglenook
purring
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silence of polysemous—
the darkling's goblin wind
no leaves to say
Polysemous: 'of words; having many meanings / polysemantic' - WordWeb
NOTE an experiment in ɔouɟnsıuƃ the rational mind and forcing the right-brain cavalry to come to the rescue. Similar in principal to a koan? Just a walk in the woods at night in autumn - the rest is the wind of silence blowing through a perennial child's mind.
Trope. Yin yang reflected in the brain. (Also, compare fovial / peripheral vision.) However we qualify the two halves of the cerebral cortex (cerebrum), conditioned by the forebrain and the corpus callosum and their underlying substrate, they tend to build a compelling mirror of the myths of yore, those testimonies of the human soul in transit. The alchemical texts (to example referencing the brain as nucleus of thought and thought's doings in time) can easily be superimposed on a schema of the main brain structures (and finer) - which clears a lot of the symbolic confusion up, both ways. Art and design is a wonderful target for this sort of lens, also, everything else! I would still recommend that all students of haiku (and life) spend some time with the following. It's a good basic intro to a powerful cultural analytical tool (and can be adjusted in the light of new intel and purposes).
Right Brain / Left Brain: What Is It All About? (An easy-to-understand explanation of the theory behind the right brain left brain concepts and why it's relevant to painters.)
There are many tools in The Fool's handkerchief on a stick - bilateral symmetry of the brain is an important one.
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down the b&w lane
dad does his stick trick again—
button mushroom
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