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| Poetry Poems, Haiku & Tanka etc. |
02-14-2006, 02:25 AM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Gender: Male
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Haiku, verse in brief
Compressed, deep and meaningful
shortened asian form
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*He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) 
*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln
Last edited by journyman161 : 02-14-2006 at 04:56 AM.
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02-14-2006, 05:58 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Peterborough, Canada
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nice, journyman: in the future I should just direct the curious to this, a condensed version of all that other verbiage. cheers
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03-04-2006, 01:30 PM
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As a rhymer, it took some discipline to get into haiku - to me the concept is conveying an accurate image with brevity and I also use word play as well. I don't think haiku is simple but it can be spewed out by those who aren't giving it its due. What haiku has done for me is learn how to pare words down to bare bones instead of fulminating falderal.
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03-04-2006, 11:52 PM
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Ink Slinger
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Pen: Yes, fulminating falderal can be dubious, discombobulating, and downright dull. Ha!
I just read in The Zen of Creativity that the zen artist first gathers his own 'chi' in the hara centre (below the navel) and then allows it to perceive/interact with the 'chi' of the object, out of which the act of creation occurs. (Just throwing this out there.)
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03-05-2006, 06:01 PM
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Ink Slinger
Join Date: May 2005
Location: the high seas..
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I wish I could give you all the Tai Chi class I was given before I went on my university residential. It was great and it does help clear the mind, I still practise from time to time when I'm at a loss with nothing to say.
As to the Haiku, something I learnt from my tutor was that Haiku traditionally had to refer to the season, and nature but is now no longer so. We used haiku to translate feeling in class, and while some may think that wrong, my lecturer didn't so each to their own.
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