01-13-2017, 12:06 AM
Thanks for the reads... I was being ironic with the form. As any have read me on the use of American haiku, I have always denigrated the idea. So just a little playing around.
Achebe, Do you often find much of the poetic in American haiku? Devoid of rhythm or rhyme, based on a strict syllable count. In reality it should be based on "morae" whereas syllable is no equivalent. Plus no "saijiki" from which to draw the "kigo".
The play here is that once the superficial is removed (you know those things we usually go to war over, religion, culture, et al.) we find humanity is all the same despite such things as skin color, height, and so forth: or that was the idea. We all want peace, safety, and enough to be able to raise our children well, or if you will, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Of course one wonders these days where one might find that.
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dale
Sorry, forgot: Achebe You were absolutely correct.
Achebe, Do you often find much of the poetic in American haiku? Devoid of rhythm or rhyme, based on a strict syllable count. In reality it should be based on "morae" whereas syllable is no equivalent. Plus no "saijiki" from which to draw the "kigo".
The play here is that once the superficial is removed (you know those things we usually go to war over, religion, culture, et al.) we find humanity is all the same despite such things as skin color, height, and so forth: or that was the idea. We all want peace, safety, and enough to be able to raise our children well, or if you will, "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". Of course one wonders these days where one might find that.
~\_
_/~dale
Sorry, forgot: Achebe You were absolutely correct.
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.