X, Y, Z, and Me, What’s Cool About Haiku?
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So, “What’s Most Important About English Language Haiku?”
A discussion over wilted salads.
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X: Seventeen syllables
Y: In three lines
Z: Short poem usually three lines less than seventeen syllables
X: All About the Ineffable
Z: They’re Ethereal in tone
Y: Inscrutable
Me: Inhaling. Exhaling.
c. Lemuel
04 November 2018
And It’s Programmable Too Limerick
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“Open the doors,” said wee spaceman.
Robot sighed, “Sorry,” twice again:
Malicious machine,
Was snuffing “the man”—
T’was human programming ingrained.
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c. Lemuel
03 November 2018
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Adrenalin, Limerick
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Kristy, on fourth floor, cost accounting—
On holiday tried mountain biking;
Sharp turns and drift stops,
Way over the top;
Her next deal, blindfolded sky diving.
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c. Lemuel
03 November 2018
Haiku, In Many Minds
Haiku are created poems. Perhaps a person may find haiku in one’s inner self pre-fashioned. I must work to make a poem, re-making the poem fragments too. I fully accept serendipity.
Writing haiku is sure to employ imagination, to varying degrees, and humor. I like to build haiku with help from observation, emotion, and tenacity.
Flip side, considering others’ haiku. Receiving haiku allows me to sense what another person possessed or made.
Maybe, I can contact a little of how they have had to respond to the world as I take in their haiku.
My sensing of received haiku is at once fresh and mine, even if I have never visited their pond as written, and it is chock-full of “other-ness” that is so personably moving, friendly.
Another person has walked this path. Their footprints are old, they go that way, seventeen syllables or not.
Onward, as my footprints weather a bit.
c. Lemuel
02 November 2018
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Not Out to Pasture Too, Limerick
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Our old Gran bowls one hundred-fourteen,
Geriatric points leader and queen;
She’s mastered that spin
Magnetic to pins—
Smashes strikes, crushes spares for her team.
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c. Lemuel
02 November 2018
It has been a while since I used the Biro. A bit removed from doodling in class.
The ball-point ink has its unique flow and feel.
“Lurking Maestro”
Biro, ball-point pen on paper, ~15 x 20 cm, ~6 x 8 in
c. Lemuel
01 November 2018
My ability to learn is up or it is down, but sometimes it is “just right”.
Learning to Make anything takes practice. I get experience from practice.
If I try maybe I will have success.
Practice is the travel companion to Art (and anything really).
A finished work, price tagged and “re-homed”, gives at least two people, maybe the gallery too, pleasure.
No one sees my practice.
But it pays.
c. Lemuel
01 November 2018
Haiku, Un-learning and Re-learning
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I mean no disrespect. I do no intend unsupported criticism.
I offer three considerations relating to haiku.
First, Un-learn some lessons, early. Even sincere and motivated teachers are wrong. I especially note my self-teaching.
Next, consider the impact of several concepts relating to acceptable haiku, a brief list.
A. Knowing the Subject of haiku is the Way on a Path built upon insight and on discovery for writer and for recipient.
B. Haiku is a regulated, known, and an expected type of poem.
C. Haiku is versatile and demanding.
D. Humor is one of many human traits.
Then, with reflection, proceed with haiku, un-learned or re-learned. Or something else.
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c. Lemuel
01 November 2018
Chillin’, Limerick
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Ole Corncob Cortez of Breau Bridge
Keeps ninety beers cold in his fridge:
Eight pony kegs more
On his cooler floor—
He likes his chilled brews just a smidge.
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c. Lemuel
01 November 2018
In Memoriam, Limerick
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Here lies, Humphrey Smithers-Pennibscott,
For one tiny thing, that he forgot;
To set his handbrake,
For a minor mistake—
Now he’s stiff under turf without forethought.
Happy Halloween!
c. Lemuel
31 October 2018
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