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Here you will find the good, the bad, and the plain silly. . .
JP Don't get cross, get even. Do this by learning more each day about the aesthetics of haiku. Then move up to hokku study and practice. Then, break the rules if that works for you. But, first you really need to make less statements (telling) and evoke more audience participation (showing).
NEOPHYTE Not cross, John. I even "Liked" your comment.
JP Nevertheless, getting cross is best channeled into solutions. It gives an enabling capacity; you know, rather than blowing one's stack.
This about sums it up. . .
"The School of Arrogance hopes for a Western-style haiku, a haiku independent of its origins. It says we can forget about Taoist poetry, classical renku (linked verse), Zen Buddhism with its Chinese and Indian antecedents, koans (mind-boggling riddles), Pure Land Buddhism, Shinto, animism, superstition, folklore, custom, the signs, portents, moods and ritual associated with seasonal themes and events, the life and work of individual haiku masters, the sound of the shakuhachi (the bamboo flute), the temple bell, the endless layers of cultural and literary reference, the whole gamut of commonplace and esoteric symbolism and cosmology. As if the West could possibly live on its own!" —Gabriel Rosenstock
JP When one engages the audience in their own dream, haiku (not hokku) is beginning to dawn. Tercet (3 liner) sentences styled from pulp fiction detective genres, whilst interesting enough, really don't cut it as haiku. Not if you want to try and do it right. I like your use of language, but it's not haiku. Not really. It looks like it from the window of a bullet train, maybe.→ Like · 1
NEOPHYTE Everyone's a critic.
