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The American Haiku
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| 09-23-07
| Neuromancer
Posted on 09/23/2007 10:36:13 AM PDT by Neuromancer
Haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, is a short verse of 17 syllables in three metrical sections (lines) of 5-7-5 syllables. A compact yet profound and evocative form, haiku gives an objective, suggestive, pithy and fleeting picture of its subject.
What is said is important but what is unsaid may be more important. The poet may talk of nature but what he is conveying may be some deep feeling, an intuition or a concrete experience of life. Haiku is more concerned with human emotion or with experience than with human acts, and nature is used to reflect or suggest that emotion.
TOPICS: Poetry
KEYWORDS: americanhaiku; poetry
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To: Neuromancer
The American Haiku was developed over a period of several years on an internet web site called FREEREPUBLIC.COM.
I would like to thank the owner, operators and financial donors who provide this public forum for allowing me, without condition, such a frivolous use of their bandwidth.
The American Haiku is a direct descendant of the traditional Japanese art form.
It contains nine, and only nine, beats and retains the homage to nature.
It is sometimes titled and sometimes not.
Neuromancer
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This collection of American Haikus is dedicated to my friend Kate and the summer we shared
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BARREN LIMBS OF THE HEART
Hewn as deadwood
With a
Trusting
Smile
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BETWEEN THE WARM
Entwined adrift
Silent
In the
Sun
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A PERFECT SHORE
Where lake
And stone
Dare yield
To soft
Eyes
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DARK RIVERS MUST FLOW
The gnawing things
And coyotes
Know
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To: Neuromancer
The first time someone mentioned Haiku, I looked it up in my unabridged dictionary.
The nearest I came was Haik which is a seldom used Norse word meaning Tramp.
So tramp u!
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posted on
09/23/2007 10:44:16 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
To: Neuromancer
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BLOOD ON THE PARTING DOOR
Scars speak
Too much
When the days
Grow cool
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AT THE LEAVING
You took
The desert
And I
The sea
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HIGH DESERT SAGE OFFERS UP A SENSORY EXPLOSION WHEN HELD IN A WARM HUMAN HAND.
THE TRUSTING HEART IS LITTLE DIFFERENT
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To: Kay Syrah; Camachee; bentfeather; January24th
I would be greatly pleased if you would visit my work.
To: Neuromancer
Hello Neuromancer, thank you for thinking of me.
Your work is just a beautiful as I remember from years past.
I shall try to write some haiku, I am not good at it, but I will try.
You will see that my screen name has changed, Soaring Feather and bentfeather are the same person.
To: Neuromancer
Post #8 is amazingly beautiful and haunting.
To: Soaring Feather
Thank you for the kind comments.
On one of the last days of summer, and of our relationship we sat at this very spot and listened to the animals of the night.
I had never seen the river so dark.
To: Neuromancer; theFIRMbss
Sometimes when I’m drunk
I start vain haiku threads here
Ah, but is it art?
To: martin_fierro
Sometimes when I’m drunk
I start vain haiku threads here
Ah, but is it art? Alas, I know not
This man of mystery, this
Art of whom you speak.
To: martin_fierro
THE SUBSTANCE OF VANITY
Wispy clouds
Dancing
Neath the
Damp sky
To: Neuromancer
Seeking, Searching, Never Finding
A clever way to BookMark Haikus
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09/23/2007 10:14:37 PM PDT
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Kevmo
(We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.)
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