zoka & ma & et al
pic [source's explanation is utterly fascile]
All this must come together, all these aesthetic terms. Even 'aesthetic' is a query? At the start is wasn't art it was a magical dialogue with nature's bounty. See a hand, a mudprint, deep in the womb of the earth. See ancient animals prancing in the rock air. Is art the tool of magic and is all we have today, with our fallen humanism and mental science, three ducks on a wall - flying through polka dots, to nowhere, forever?
stumbling to Calvary —
in an abandoned church
rose hips and brambles
jp
07-09-11
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ODZ N N'S. . . .
It's a question I've wanted to raise with the more intelligent haiku people for some time. Particularly, of course, Robert (D. Wilson), owner of Simply Haiku, and several other thoughtful individuals from around the world [see links]. I feel their deeper (in the pond) ideas, on this and related haikai subjects, would benefit from a more widespread distribution, over here in the western Paradise. Not to mention my own.
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In the beginning was the chaos of blind instinct. Then calanders of magic harmony. Thus is born proto-kigo. Time. Kigo becomes literary. Time. Kigo becomes decadent. Time. Seasonal reference starts from scratch in the Frankenstein lands of the western dystopia. In the cities of the plague - neo-haiku. Time. Pure Land Haiku.
Mushrooms— sprout in a falling down world
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The cave as the womb of nature. Lascoux's dancing animals. Magical contact with the bio-internet. Shamanic negotiation with the animal people. Animism. Mythic consciousness. Haiku.
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RAISE NEW ENTRIES. . . .
source [AHA Forums]
Haiku is classed as poetry for convenience. Truth is, haiku exists in the centre with poetics on one side and prosaics on the other. Yes, it does. If we move one way we get a poetic emphasis and (typical in the left-brained west), if we move the other way, we get epigrammatics. My puzzle is this, what's the name we could give to that central positioning? Magic spells function similarly and for a similar purpose. The delivery of a Noh content to the space between stimulus and response (ma-space, this is sometimes called). They live in the middle-place, also. But, there is a difference between a haiku and a magic spell (or, is there?). Certainly they could both be used interchangeably, with intention. It's this middle that intrigues me. It's not easy to fathom or focus. . . .
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As mentioned, haiku shape tends towards an s/l/s pattern.
However, if another pattern is requestion by the spirit of a particular haiku, then that would be the way to go.
Shape is expressive and, as the word implies, shapes our experience. This can be used to assist in the delivery of the inner-movie as much as anything else in the mechanics of the words of a haiku. Clearly, if those mechanics get in the way of the delivery of a vivacious inner experience, then, to the extent that they do, the words are faulty. Shape is, of course, a part of this delivery mechanism. But, s/l/s is mostly how haiku naturally tend to organise (which is probably a coding system deep in our brains).* [Robert, over at Simply Haiku is a hardcore stickler for s/l/s!]
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*'Universal Syntax' by Noam Chomsky is a concept well worth gaining some general knowledge about, incidentally - as some on this thread may know. :0)
jp
CONTINUE AND SORT. . . .
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