Jul
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via cumulus
a Moon of Flowers
fills the vase
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preaching to the choir
in a church crow's cradle-
black plastic bag
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greetings everybody,
like nobody's moonlit business-
newspaper, deckchair
MICROPOET
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1. Very small or microscopic.
2. Basic or small-scale: the economy's performance at the micro level.
. . .
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...and lo!
the ice cream van comes
...to pass
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watering the concrete
next door's cat
mirrors
NOTE: An important essay is in the pipeline here at geodesic_eye concerning the contrast between classical haiku mysticism and modern global haiku aesthetics (the latter, to no microscopic extent, influenced by Haiku Society of America). There is a connect between the two concepts, but not what you will have been made aware of before. More news as it breaks . . .
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at the fairytale temple
hidden in ivy
a face
M U S I C A L U D I U M
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tiger blood, human heart-
next door's cat
gets its summer bath-
"This catchy tune's accompanying English-language haiku is a concreteku (leaping cat) variant of classical standalone hokku as practised by Japanese princesses during The Floating World of Edo (Ukiyo) hippy period of Nippon's new found peace and prosperity. These delightful little creatures slotted it in as part of their intense recreational schedules on the beach during ocean blossoms paddling season in the summer months. Sadly, few examples remain of these intimate and amusing texts and what are extant are rarely available in coherent translation." - anon
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"His [Northrop Frye] lasting reputation rests principally on the theory of literary criticism
that he developed in Anatomy of Criticism (1957), one of the most important works of
literary theory published in the twentieth century." - Wikipedia
walking backwards up a mountain
in a midsummer dream-
sunlit curtains
S M I L E L U D E
^_^
item 4
"Here we begin to wonder if we cannot see literature, not only as complicating itself
in time, but as spread out in conceptual space from some unseen centre." - Northrop
Frye, Anatomy of Criticism
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at the still centre
of a harvest mouse's house
Mrs Spider broods
ECOLOGY UPDATE
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at the electric fence
some freshly abducted calves
puzzle their mints
"Reason tends to be analytical. Slicing entities in the post mortem and laying their bleeding parts under logic's microscope. Poetry tends to joining up fragments of cognitive debris into seamless jigsaws of new information -- sometimes with a beating heart, sometimes, mostly, not. But, is haiku really inside the limits of poetry, or is it an interface betwixt and between art and magic? I favour the latter explanation and cite the caves of Lascoux as evidence."
- The Tao Wizard's Apprentice
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"We have made a great step forward by stepping back. This is a step towards stepping nowhere which is a stepping stone to future steps using this two pronged stepping policy." - Noah Body
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summer rain-
the sun's perpendicular axis
down the Jackdaw's chimney
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"Don't take your cat for granted -- all living things light the way
in their passing." - A. Cat
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underwater summer-
seems the only difference
no fish!
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RADIO DAZE
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"...flawed society and misled Zeitgeist..."
and so on- the church owl family
hunt by hoot
S A T I R I C A L U D E
item 8
NON-CLASSICAL HAIKU PERSONIFIED OR JUST A CASE OF TOO MUCH BARLEY
WINE?
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new civic pool,
an ape jumps in . . .
sound of jungle!
^_^
Obviously a reference to Basho's classic frog song (honkadori - allusion within a poem, to an older poem).
M U S I C A L U D E
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For all the poor songbirds forced to sing at night because of increased
noise levels in global urbania.
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exiles of daylight-
a sparrow family sings,
the midnight chorus
Thanks to a crossroader for this headsup. Here's the RSPBs take on this interesting subject (Looks like robins have the spotlight.)
Some interesting facts about Lead Belly (who penned Midnight Special, of course) More from Wikipedia
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under the waving grass
bee babies murmur
or the wind
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in the owl haunted valley
new stomachs
churn
Some clarifying remarks . . .
The pic shows a MINCE & ONION PIE TURNOVER (but the contents could be anything you like). This is a simple (self-evident) method for lidding a pie in one action (rather than having two sections of pastry, the container and the lid, which need fixed together - sometimes with a pastry leaf motif concealing and decorating the conservative pie's advisory central ventilation grill).
It has a nice rustic, even organic / geological, look about it and the eating is, if anything, improved as a result of various thicknesses of crusty envelope and the interplay of these cross-sections with the scrumptious savoury contents.
In architectural terms this radical new methodology for a 'quick pie' could be described as being a 'neo-aboriginal, post-modernist, architectonic structure'. (The visual resonance with certain genetically modified species of cactus and succulents, recently reported in covert experimental nurseries globally, has also been noted: http://tinyurl.com/geneticvandalism)
HAIKU EVALUATION
Excellent ( ) not bad (✓) could do better ( ) don’t call us, we’ll call you ( )
jp
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under a tree
the steaming calves
we wait . . .
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old lady rain
in her electro-smog
forecasts July
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torrential rain-
yet flutters on some quest
the casual moth
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HOW TO WRITE A HAIKU: "Write it down in 7 seconds, from heart
of nowhere. Let it be. Just like footprints.Remain vigilant."
- The Haiku Shaman
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soggy socks-
a search for summer
suspended
NOTE " If we don't get it first time it defaults to a literary haiku which looks like a haiku but is really a pretension, a semblance. Basho mentions this and experience teaches he was spot on." - jp
MORE http://tinyurl.com/dehydratedfrog
MEMO TO ALL CROSSROADERS . . .
This post was shared by a character calling himself John Clark. He then thought to satirize via plagiarization as follows:
How To Write A Lowku
Or Wrong a Haiku:
soggy summer
search for suspenders
socked
Pretty dreadful. Have a look around this troll's site and compose your own minds as to the well-being of its soggy soul. Yes, make a mental note regarding this somewhat unsavoury ex-member everyone:
[Entry reposted -- to delete bogus share by weirdo in question.]
John Clark
Loyola New Orleans
ECOLOGY UPDATE
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"Always let the inner picture develop, even if the
surface is exlained, or, worse, you see your face
in it." - The Haiku Shaman
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summer puddles
a family album
seems
NOTE " This post's advice from THS is especially relevant when reading haiku. In our fast world we live at a very shallow level of apprehension, reflexing with the aid of our instincts and social training as we chase a future whose horizon forever recedes. Thus we only skim the reflective surface and miss the experiential content. To do haiku we really need to slow down and let it sink in." - jp
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"Inspired by every breath we breath; in that moment, each moment of eternal spring's dawn is born. Or, the wintertime of ages expelled. The rising and the fall. Forever, the coming and the gone. Notice this in passing and be free of motion's vanity." - The Haiku Shaman
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—KIDS SUMMER SALE—
with each pair of rainboots
a *free* splash puddle!
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in a millions of miles light
evening house martins
hunt the barley
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"there's a storm on the horizon,
we can see lightning" -
Charolais calf
TOP OF THE POPS
RATING: Excellent (✓) not bad ( ) could do better ( ) don’t call us, we’ll call you ( )
"Charolais are my favourite cattle. They have good
hearts, but don't stand for any nonsense." - jp
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