I coo for Haiku
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I've ended up writing a couple of haikus in different places recently. In one post
ozarque asked for haiku about linguistics. I particularly like 2,3 and 6 (and will admit to a certain guilty pleasure in 4).
The map is not the
territory. Nor does the
menu taste like food.
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Dictionary fun.
I trace meanings to their source.
Infinite Regress.
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My speech is impure
Words plundered from everywhere
This gives it power
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Someone says "Linguist".
My inner twelve-year-old asks
"But are they cunning?"
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Precision's an end
Generality another
You can pull both ways
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Verbing is, like, so
last week our verbal patterns
were drawn in the sand
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And a while back,
hirez was talking about poststructuralism when
easterbunny asked for an explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism in the form of a haiku. And how can one resist a challenge like that?
No space for authors
now, in this, our winter of
Infinite Regress
alternatively:
Modernism falls
like the outdated leaves of
discarded meaning
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The map is not the
territory. Nor does the
menu taste like food.
===
Dictionary fun.
I trace meanings to their source.
Infinite Regress.
===
My speech is impure
Words plundered from everywhere
This gives it power
===
Someone says "Linguist".
My inner twelve-year-old asks
"But are they cunning?"
===
Precision's an end
Generality another
You can pull both ways
===
Verbing is, like, so
last week our verbal patterns
were drawn in the sand
===========
And a while back,
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No space for authors
now, in this, our winter of
Infinite Regress
alternatively:
Modernism falls
like the outdated leaves of
discarded meaning
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Date: 2008-05-22 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-22 04:59 pm (UTC)isn't a haiku meant to be 5,7,5? it really bugs me with things like precision, as i'd have it being pre-cis-ion and generality as gen-er-al-ity. is it just my accent?
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Date: 2008-05-22 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-22 07:23 pm (UTC)i like reading haiku games. i do get bothered by silly perfectionist things though. tis why i hardly ever create stuff myself. always *something* wrong with it.
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Date: 2008-05-22 07:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 12:22 am (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mora_(linguistics)
Which pretty much means you have to write them in Japanese. Anything else is just a three line poem.
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Date: 2008-05-23 06:53 am (UTC)Admittedly, most "Haiku" tend to be Senryu (gosh, I learn something every day, it seems), but such is life.
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Date: 2008-05-22 05:39 pm (UTC)one guilty pleasure in four:
Not a bad strike rate.
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Date: 2008-05-23 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 06:47 am (UTC)And some of them are three separate chunks, some use the three-line structure for emphasis, and some ignore it entirely - this seems fine to me, and in keeping with the origins and different way that haiku are written in Japan.
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Date: 2008-05-23 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 12:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 12:49 pm (UTC)I'd say that the final one in my post is the latter, for instance. It's clearly not just a sentence.
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Date: 2008-05-23 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 07:08 pm (UTC)for no. 4
Date: 2008-05-23 07:55 am (UTC)people ALWAYS do that joke
argh argh argh argh argh
/linguist :)
Re: for no. 4
Date: 2008-05-23 09:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-23 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-25 06:46 pm (UTC)