Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/29
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Loneliness;
After the fireworks
A falling star
Shiki
All the best!
Raimo
Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
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Lähettäjä: Michael Gerard <geeman1066@earthlink.net>
Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Päivä: 29. huhtikuuta 2002 17:54
Aihe: [Leica] Haiku
>Karina,
> The definition I've always liked and taught my students is "single breath poetry." Some choose to define the form by syllables and numbers of lines--5, 7, 5, or 4, 6,4 are common structures--but my readings of Japanese haiku, the country in which, I believe, the form originated, demonstrated to me that the form needn't be that restrictive. Haiku are meant to convey a single image without personal commentary by the author, i.e. the poem should not have an overt message or theme, but merely seek to paint a picture in the mind. There are many similarities between Haiku and the Imagist movement founded by Ezra Pound. In fact, one of my favorite examples is Carl Sandburg's "Fog," who was one of the imagist poets:
>
> The comes in on little cat feet
> sits on haunches looking over harbor and city
> and then moves on.
>
>I'm working from memory here, so please excuse if I've missed a word or two or screwed up the line breaks.
> Lest some think we have gone TOTALLY off topic, I would add that I believe haiku and macro photography to be two different media representing the same subject matter. That would make Don a haiku Zen master. ;-)
>Regards,
>Michael Gerard
>geeman1066@earthlink.net
>
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