I coo for Haiku

[andrewducker]

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like the outdated leaves of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

Comments

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I can't work out if you're trying to make a point or agreeing with me; photography can be art or it can just be taking a picture of something. I see a difference, just as I see a difference between painting a canvas and painting a house.

[andrewducker]

I'm making a point - photograph can be art, and so can haiku. It's the difference between saying something that happens to have 17 syllables in it, and saying something in that makes use of the format and produces an effect in the reader.

I'd say that the final one in my post is the latter, for instance. It's clearly not just a sentence.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Mostly I found the last one to be pretentious. I'm not expecting us to agree on "what is art" as frankly it is very much subjective. However, I think of Haiku as having been bastardized through it's overuse. I fail to see the beauty in playing the piano if that person is playing Chopsticks, for instance.

[andrewducker]

We'll have to disagree :->

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I thought we would, but I think it is one of those discussions with no "right" answer, just points to discuss.

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

actually I liked the last one best - possibly because I agree with it:-)