My opinion's clear
when faced with this decision.
Form over content.
Let's forget onji
and concentrate on haiku
as non- Japanese.
This list's in English
and I assume it's readers
comprehend that tongue.
If a list starts up
for traditional haiku
I, for one, am lost.
The non- Japanese
understand the haiku as
a measured poem.
Each in languages
as diverse as all poems,
regardless of form.
To this I refer,
when I speak of laziness.
No offense taken!
adam ford wrote:
> strictness when it comes
> to writing haiku can be
> counterproductive
>
> what of season words,
> or of onji (which are not
> syllables) my friend?
>
> if you abandon
> one rule then why not loosen
> the hold of others?
>
> the purist forgets:
> "true" haiku are written in
> the japanese tongue
>
> english translation
> is in itself bending the
> rules of the haiku
>
> to add a word to
> a twelve-syllable haiku
> can wreck the balance
>
> in the end, which is
> more important: the form or
> the poem's content?
>
> this is not meant to
> be an act of aggression -
> just an opinion
>
> adam ford
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>
> > Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:58:26 -0400
> > From: Michael Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Subject: Re: [X] count'em
> >
> > I won't be upset
> > if syllables don't add up.
> > It just seems lazy.
>
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