I would LOVE it, and also would attempt follow the haiku rules, if it turned out that there is a physiological reason for the 5/7/5 formula for haiku. For example, iambic pentameter seems to coincide with normal breathing. Am I missing something?
________________________________ From: turquoiseb <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 8:41 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Haiku by John Cooper Clarke s3raphita passes along: > > > Seventeen syllables? > > OK, seventeen syllables... > > hmmmm... > > aw, fuck it --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Doc wrote: > To convey one's moods > in seventeen syllables > is very diffic Very funny, both of them. I still like my brother's Email Blues haiku: Oh no Yet another spam about penis length I mean How do they know? The only haiku that came to me was this one, and I had to cheat a little with the Elizabethan pronunciation of the last word to even get to seventeen syllables. :-) My epitaph In six words Better than I could have imaginéd
