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Subject: Re: [Leica] Haiku/kerouac
From: kiklaas@iinet.net.au
Date: 30 Apr 2002 02:20:15 -0000

So in effect creating photographs in the mind with words.....I see!!

 
> In a message dated 4/29/02 8:41:14 AM, geeman1066@earthlink.net writes:
> 
> << 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: >>
> 
> And there's the heirs to that movement the Beat writers like Kerouac's 
pop 
> american haiku as well...with an emphasis on sound, a small meditation 
that 
> as Kerouac said is as simple as porridge and yet makes you see the real 
> thing.  In some ways a great definition of art as well.   Some examples:
> 
> Early morning with the 
>         happy dogs-- 
>      I forgot the Path 
>   
>      The dog yawned 
>         and almost swallowed 
>      My Dharma 
> 
> And from desolation angels 
> 
> 
> A bubble, a shadow -
>  woop -
> The lightning flash
>  
> Thunder in the mountains -
>  the iron
> Of my mother's love
>  
> Mist boiling from the
>  ridge - the mountains
> Are clean
>  
> Mist before the peak
>  - the dream
> Goes on
>  
> as cold
>   water in a dell
>     on a dusty tired trail -
>  
> Girls' footprints
>  in the sand
> - Old mossy pile
>  
> Wooden house
> raw gray -
> Pink light in the window
>  
> Neons, Chinese restaurants
>  coming on -
> Girls come by shades
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -kim
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