In Secret
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(Today, 03:10 AM)matsunosuperfan Wrote:  Sorry, I found this all very boring and forgettable. Haiku about frogs. Never got off the ground for me. Conceit did not convince me it needed to exist in the world.
Fair enough. It will fall flat for most people, because you have to know about the classic haiku by Matsuo Bashō, 

古池や蛙飛びこむ水の音 furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto
   an ancient pond / a frog jumps in / the splash of water


Or the book "One Hundred Frogs: From Renga to Haiku to English" which is "An in-depth literary study and collection of over a hundred different English translations and interpretations of Bashō's classic old pond frog poem across time, tracing how the short verse evolved from traditional renga and hokku into global haiku."

This poem is a lighthearted answer to it: what about the frogs that don't jump?
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In Secret - by purplie - Yesterday, 10:06 PM
RE: In Secret - by wasellajam - Yesterday, 11:16 PM
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