If there is perspiration on the brow then the A/C is not doing its job.
Unless I’ve missed something deeper.
Gee. I dunno. Could he have composed the poem before getting into the truck?
Nice. Who knew BBG was a philosopher and a poet?
I think technically he shouldn’t have mentioned the season directly in a haiku, but should have used a kigo associated with the season. Something like, say, “Buzzing cicadas” (do cicadas buzz?)
winter garden
the moon thinned to a thread
insects singing
– Basho
spring rain–
a child gives a dance lesson
to the cat
— Issa
He says a word,
and I say a word – autumn
is deepening.
— Takahama
First autumn morning:
the mirror I stare into
shows my father’s face.
— Murakami
Bah. Stupid article on kigo lied to me, evidently. Good references though. Guess BBG knows more about haiku than I do.
I’m enlightened.
I think haiku is pretentious even if it doesn’t mean to be.
If there is perspiration on the brow then the A/C is not doing its job.
Unless I’ve missed something deeper.
Gee. I dunno. Could he have composed the poem before getting into the truck?
Nice. Who knew BBG was a philosopher and a poet?
I think technically he shouldn’t have mentioned the season directly in a haiku, but should have used a kigo associated with the season. Something like, say, “Buzzing cicadas” (do cicadas buzz?)
winter garden
the moon thinned to a thread
insects singing
– Basho
spring rain–
a child gives a dance lesson
to the cat
— Issa
He says a word,
and I say a word – autumn
is deepening.
— Takahama
First autumn morning:
the mirror I stare into
shows my father’s face.
— Murakami
Bah. Stupid article on kigo lied to me, evidently. Good references though. Guess BBG knows more about haiku than I do.
I’m enlightened.
I think haiku is pretentious even if it doesn’t mean to be.