Like the lines scribing each piece the creative puzzle cutting words connect
HAIKU - SHMAIKU
Seventeen moras
And kigo and kireji :
Who can figure it?
Never could get it -
Slap down unrelated words :
Meaningless meaning.
Call it poetry -
OK, maybe in Japan
But no way for me.
Keats would be rolling
In his grave if he saw me
Writing a haiku.
God forbid I should
Ever twist my English so,
So, I never would.
12 June 2011
waka,tanka,yugen
elegant poem-songs to pen
haiga,wenren,haiku
multi-talents to read or view
renga,haikai,haibun
light or long,poetry-prose can be fun
senryu,kigo kireji
the cutting word..is the key
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