Sinister: Friday afternoon haiku
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--- William McKenzie <wjmckenzie@yahoo.com> wrote:
silence is never silence if you listen
That was very lovely. But I just wanted to ever-so-gently add that technically, haiku are five, then seven, then five syllables. There, now I've finally done something with those four years of Japanese I took. Minna-san, arigato gozaimasu! -elise __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
you're right about traditional haiku, but not western haiku... jack kerouac made it up: any number of syllables, just three lines. yep. uh, hi. i'm a wallflower-extraordinaire, and a lover of tiny poetry. how is everybody? i'll go hide again now. ari -- rocketbomb.org On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, elise j. spry wrote:
--- William McKenzie <wjmckenzie@yahoo.com> wrote:
silence is never silence if you listen
That was very lovely. But I just wanted to ever-so-gently add that technically, haiku are five, then seven, then five syllables. There, now I've finally done something with those four years of Japanese I took. Minna-san, arigato gozaimasu!
-elise
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That was very lovely. But I just wanted to ever-so-gently add that technically, haiku are five, then seven, then five syllables.
Maybe I should call my shorter version a 'Friday afternoon 'hi''? Sayonara Elise-san! Will ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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alm26＠cornell.edu -
elise j. spry -
William McKenzie