Dec
och aye th' noo! ◠‿◠
(click pics to ENLARGE)
Lo! For, verily it is said: "Pouring red wine on the carpet is a lot of work for the servant." - jp
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trimming his eyes
an icy wind wanderer
diagonalises
meanwhile, back at the ranch
nobody is warming their toes
buzzard 2
"if you need a God, look where you have turned up! Namely, here in the solid. All the rest being the entrails of sensate reality and subject to 10,000 disputes and much gnashing of teeth. As in dogs chasing their flags." - jp
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in God's hideout
the autumn buzzard's song
lingers in blue
not so them blasted crows
left whistling Dixie, lol
Image shows location of :
summer breeze,
ripples on a pond continue. . .
into a field
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Basho was a business man. However, in his private life he kept within the 150 feasibility limit discovered by scientists.
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friends,
where are they now
snowflake?
Example of 'infinite substitution':
[INSERT],
where are they now
[INSERT]?
What, when, why, how . . . may be exchanged in L2 and the line composed accordingly. Even L2's content, as predicated, can permutate. For example:
friends,
where do they go
snowflake?
And so on...
An exercise for those who like to call one thing another thing. But, it's hardly rock n roll. Still, this sort of work out does help keep the mind supple. Just as haiku walking is a useful substitute for hunter gathering. You know, as back in the days of forever Eden.
jp
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lit by headlamps
a tiny Christmas parcel
in the rain
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an icy blast
disguised as fresh air
enters the room
crossroader : Love the modernist creativity ...and the ku!
jp : Glad you like it. I guess those two penguins must be postmodern classicists. I remember back in art college daze and me and this crazy guy were walking in the twilight to the pub to meet our gang. On the horizon was a silhouetted lightning tree, all stark and frenetic looking. "Look at that," Eric says. "Man, that's weird," I pithily replied in a shallow manner. And...then my nutty pal spoke a wise thing which has stuck with me over the years since then. He said: "You've changed it." Shortly after that nocturne remark, Eric went off to live in an old hut in the wilds. For all I know he's still there.
MORAL
The message is that naming things is what ku avoids at the first instance of revelation. Even when setting up the text (for transmission of 'television signals' from the natural eureka! studio to any recipients 'dream machine') the idea is to lightly allude; rather than create a scenario whose injunctive meaning is hammered home with an industrial sledgehammer.
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"The legs feed the wolf." - Herb Brooks
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next door's dog
sniffs the air for snow
then laughs
Quote [above] from here (not a bad movie you can all enjoy for FREE!)
BONUS DOG QUOTE
I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. Johnson: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." - Boswell: Life
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A R T L U D E
Ohara Koson (1877 – 1945)
[Image: Crow On A Snowy Branch by Ohara Koson / Speech bubble: jp]
BIO
"Ohara Koson (Kanazawa 1877 – Tokyo 1945) was a Japanese painter and printmaker of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, part of the shin-hanga ("new prints") movement." - Wikipedia
The Beautiful Oriental Art of Koson Ohara | 134 Pics
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Eric went off to live in an old hut in the wilds. For all I know he's still there.
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the evening bells
sound so Christmassy-
frosty knoll
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"As a gift from the present, of the present, to the future; I'm not about guidelines and risk assessment." - random elf
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cinéma vérité?
yes, definitely maybe-
charity Santas
Can you dig it?
NOTE
Infinite substitution can be applied to this ku. Just unpack its format and you're good to go! Each of the lines may be adjusted or changed, individually or wholesale. A useful exercise for newbies. And more advanced students, who should know better...LOL!
:)
X M A S S Y L U D E
PixCell-Deer#24, 2011 - Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975)
"Taxidermied deer transformed through the artist’s use of variably sized “PixCell” beads, a term he invented. PixCell-Deer#24 resonates with a type of religious painting known as a Kasuga Deer Mandala, which features a deer—the messenger animal of Shinto deities—posed similarly with its head turned to the side, and with a round sacred mirror on its back. For painters of the Rinpa school, the deer was depicted often as a companion of ancient sages and had auspicious or poetic associations."
There's a connection between Santa and the shinto deer. That link is fly agaric, the famous red with white spots fairytale mushroom. Santa, a compound of many ancient symbols, is suited in fly agaric. Deer enjoy eating fly agaric and get mystical; thus they are associated with the hallucinogenic 'spirit powers' of this fungal fruiting body. Shinto shamans, along with shamans the world over, have this mushroom (if locally available) in their ritual tool kit. It's tempting to say that ku are, essentially, embodiments of shinto magic - albeit the 3 ducks up a wall variety, for the most part, these days. ◠‿◠
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the church crows,
if they were not all so fat. . .
Christmas turkeys
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an Xmas turkey
in its cold crematorium-
dreams of spring
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WAS KOBAYASHI THE
BUSTER KEATON OF
KU?
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I'd like that little one
for my gate...
billowing clouds
Issa (1811)
The kigo (seasonal/cultural reference) in this post's delightful Issa ku is "billowing clouds", representing summer (summer rains in Japan, just like here in rainy England). Get your daily dose of lovely Issa→ http://haikuguy.com/issa/
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no snow globe-
just a sky full of crows,
cirrus and azure
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jumping in puddles-
shatters each sacred landscape
for lack of snowballs
"Father Frost is accompanied by Snowflake Girl in the Ukraine." - Wikipedia
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Miss Oh-là-là
in a keyboard-world bonanza
vamps for Santa
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who manages now
this world's sunlight?
not Amaterasu-
all cross in her cave
by a Christmas decree
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everybody looks
at the Xmas party-
upside down
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after a rum punch
the smell of green snow
lights the room
from the makers' merry mouths
a breast-red taste of robin song
(renga extension by crossroader, Zen Anecdotes)
NOTE : The white extension at this haiga's base is called a 'mat'. The mat can extend all around to. . .
"(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a border of cardboard, cloth, etc., placed around a picture to act as a frame or as a contrast between picture and frame" - Collins English Dictionary
jp
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"Wonder if they took paw prints at the crime scene before arresting the cat and taking it away in little kitty sized pawcuffs?" - Danger Mouse, Manchester, UK
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mEtAmOrPhOsIs?
it's like wearing a hug
on Christmas Eve
cute 14
T O O N L U D E
click pic
C L A S S I C A L G A S
Chiyo-ni 15
things picked up
all start to move
low-tide beach
Chiyo-ni
This post's translation is by W.J. Higginson, which does it for me. However, here are two more versions (neither of which do it for me, compared to WJH). Is it simply a matter of taste? Or, a case of which translations have been 'tampered with'? :
low-tide beach
everything one stoops to touch
moves in the fingers
[Jane Reichhold]
on the ebb tide beach
everything we pick up
is alive
[thegreenleaf]
It would be useful to access the original and maybe have a deeper look into this variety of transliterative spin.
jp
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The window herbs are not suffering. I'm letting them do their winter jobs (nice beige leaves). Come spring one may extend nature a helping hand. Meanwhile, these edible beings have been rescued from plant butchery and given a safe zone to enjoy their thing.
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boiled egg,
not exactly Xmas turkey
but. . .
with hot jumping bread
back up de wooden hill
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