"we are all our hands and holders / beneath this bold and brilliant sun / but this I swear to all"

[larryhammer]

Three genre-blending art links:

Japanese schoolgirls replicating Dragonball attacks. You're welcome. (via)

Visual interpretations of statements made by undergraduates in Western Civ exams. (via)

Department of found poetry: Times Haiku, an algorithmic tumblr project by one of the website gurus of The New York Times. Sample: As a leftover, / the soup was equally good / without the croutons. (via all over)

---L.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

I saw that Japanese schoolgirl meme a few days ago, and have been encouraging my daughter (who enjoys taking pictures) to try it with her friends. So far, she's more interested in making a pop video - but I'm working on it.

[larryhammer]

:-)

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

Just a curosity at 68 years old... :o)

Years ago, we were instructed that the three lines of Hiaku should never be continuations of each other. That is, if we said,

He is a rebel
Walking a path backwards
Up the down stair case

we have one long sentence, but with the other, it is separate yet together.

old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound


Has it change to a more "free" usage?

[larryhammer]

Depends on your genre. If you're writing a wry social observation, the rule about having a semantic 'cut' somewhere in the middle was never strict. If you're writing a more impersonal, imagistic short poem, then generally yes, it needs to be two or three clauses. They don't have to be separate sentences, but like the Basho you quote second two halves of a single sentence.

So the first one, given it's aiming at the light verse side of things, a single statement is fine.

---L.

[rymrytr.livejournal.com]

Aha! You have enlightened this unworthy Grasshopper! :o)

So, like all other things in existence, change is inevitable, flexible and ever in flux!

Merci.

[larryhammer]

Egg-zackle.