10-11-2023, 07:47 AM
(10-09-2023, 03:59 AM)Tiger the Lion Wrote: I must be out of my gourd succumbing to Ray's guilt trippin'Gourd:
But you DID, little grasshopper!
And, no doubt inspired by the wizardry of my masterful guilt-induction techniques,
you created an excellent poem.
(I'll take my thanks offline, as not to embarrass you.)
(10-09-2023, 11:55 AM)Lizzie Wrote: I see what you did thereBilly and I went round and round about this, but there's ample metaphor in untold numbers of
So, I finally went and read this thing that's been pinned to the top of the forum forever and ever. It says not to use simile or metaphor in haiku (although, only as needed, and how do you determine that need?). I guess you'll just have to decide whether you need to call it a pumpkin or not. Presumably you submit your thesis by mail to Professor Revelation's office.
If it makes you feel any better, I found out that all of my haiku are trash. That's what I get for looking at the article. Curiosity killed the 'ku.
excellent haiku. And of the four great masters of haiku: Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa,
and Masaoka Shiki; Issa and Shiki used it quite often and to great effect. Issa, by the way,
frequently used human situations and emotions in his haiku. All that stuff, including the 17 syllable
crap, was invented in England after Shiki died by people that really didn't understand Japanese that
well and definitely didn't understand haiku. Then it spread like the plague it was to the US and has
haunted us ever since...
---- Excuse me, I'm going to have to go take some powerful drug or other for the apoplectic fit that
comes over me whenever one of these wretched urban haiku myths surfaces from the festering slime
pit of our pathetic popular culture.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions