Sep
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yet another
tiny hiker - flying
on a leaf!
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a blue moon,
between two toadstools-
laugh out loud
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OLDIE GOLDIE
I was out and about, getting some fresh air and exercise with a Kodak digital camera and an eye for a haiku. You know, like you do. Then. This butterfly (red admiral) was struggling to land in the face of an awkward wind. I stopped and watched the show. Well, eventually it landed on the roadside grass, in amongst some early fallen leaves, now closing its wings to look like a non-edible, earthbound piece of natural debris, whilst it recharged its depleted batteries. Converting nectar. At this juncture I had to move on to avoid a car. The haiku moment had come to its conclusion.
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nearly at red—
the butterfly can't land
on a breeze
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hark! snail!
sell thine stiff cloak and buy a sword-
Brother North Wind cometh!
M U S I C A L U D E
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Elizabeth_Cotten's great grandchild (Brenda Evans) at 12 yrs old signing on this one, recorded 1967. "The newfound interest in her work inspired her to write more material to play and in 1967, she released a record created with her grandchildren which took its name from one of the songs she had written, Shake Sugaree."
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goin' to heaven
in a split pea shell
oh, lordy
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T W O U P D A T E S
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"Being mystically inclined I have no problems in assuming the best when I buy gold or silver with Monopoly money." - The Dow Wizard
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moving slightly,
three sheep on a distant hill
scope the autumn man
There's a great tune sung by Christy Moore called January Man (no reference intended in this post's ku - for, oft' times enough do I prefix a ku subject with a season) . Check it out below (and be glad you did) . . .
M U S I C A L U D E
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"The leaf dies and falls. From the blossom a butterfly defies gravity, for a while. The wind of change seems capriciously to mobilise the view. Decorating empty space with small adrift things. As it were to dress the invisible; the naked air. Mobiles of temporary form. Transience. All things coming to pass. But, for a moment, still in the stream." - jp©
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one life-
an autumn owl
grips
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"It’s the global haiku way: we work our way around the regulations." - A Pundit
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lifeless fall night
and yet, listen carefully . . .
fidgets
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"If you do not know what the most important requirements of a proper haiku are – you are not alone. There are many people who do not understand the basic coordinates that deliver a successful visualisation experience." - jp©
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a radiant particle,
one of autumn's loose twinklers-
fizzles at the gate
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"Step into the living wind's furyu of zoka as makoto in kokoro; in the indigo twilight of yugan, ripple on an ancient pond. Betwixt stimulus and response, enter unto boundless silence of ma. Thus, by sacrifice of thine petty ego, thine empty heart may know the object of contemplation. Be brave and assume that these things are immaculate." - jp©
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three dragonflies
over the golden barley
one helicopter
bio 8
M U S I C A L U D E
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leaves spiral
in the middle of nowhere
a lightning tree
4 N E W I T E M S
" There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;
there is nothing you can think that is not the moon."
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"People are worried that their old ways are being changed against their will. New propaganda is replacing old propaganda. It was just the same last time we papered the walls." - jp©
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autumn trees,
inside raindrops and wind-
a thought's ancestor
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brambles and mist,
the stars come to go-
rippling in indigo
sheep's fossil faces
by a dry stone wall
It's got rainy here and we have a "perfect storm" collision of two systems out in the Atlantic promising turbulent weather for a day or so. Great, will enjoy getting soaked and chatting telepathically with other damp creatures (especially plants and minerals).
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over the hills
into an autumn watercolour-
jangling freckled air
a North Atlantic gust
on its long trail out
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little purple flower-
after I smell for perfume
its bee lands
jigsaw 12
playing with space,
140 paces corrects 130 yards-
a road sign in autumn
maybe the headwind's caprice
slurred by twigs and leaves
ALTERNATIVE TEXT LAYOUT FOR TANKA Originally tanka (waka) opened with a natural observation (similar to the later development of hokku as the catalyst for a lined verse series). The last two lines of the 5 lines - as we do that in non-Japanese - was a more personal response, based on the first tercet (3 lines stanza). In essence, two stanzas, the first a natural abstract, the second a personal application. By italicizing the last two lines we have the appearance of a personal aside?
jp©
MUSE
This experiment also serves to emphasise the 'call and response' of renga, waka's (tanka) later development.
For, is it not so that we, as readers, supply our response to a 3-line ku, in the tradition of chain verse (renga).
And, is it also not so that tanka (waka) gave birth to chain verse (renga) as a *direct consequence* of the original interaction between natural abstraction and personal response via its original form in the mind of the solo player?
How sublime and unified all this is; under the surfaces of reflective and discordant confusions we find in the materialist world of competitive global haikai today - here and now in the modern world.
jp©
I N F O L U D E
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eyes of dust,
mechanical or so it seems-
autumn attic
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"Real perfume is mysterious, but the perfume which many women use is not mysterious. Women are not flowers. Why should they want to smell like flowers?” I like roses, and the smell of the rose is very beautiful, but I do not want a woman to smell like a rose." - Coco Chanel
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not butterfly dead,
just all over everywhere
shifting leaves
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S Y L L A B L E S
Never again be mocked for presenting a 5 7 5 haiku with the wrong syllable count. LOL!
autumn woods-
only my memories
disturb the leaves
jp
U P D A T E
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if they have to
mushrooms break concrete
a cat screams
on the eastern horizon
God's silhouette sparks
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