Yes, absolutely!
A haiku of fourteen lines
could be a sonnet!
But why stop it there?
Surely a few more can't hurt.
Why look, a novel!
Films under ninety
minutes aren't "shorts" anymore,
Hey, they're features too!
Walls torn asunder.
Rules tumbling to the wayside.
Planet flames brightly.
adam ford wrote:
> form over content
> is your preference, but this
> list thinks otherwise
>
> the photographic
> quality of haiku seems
> to be the focus
>
> this quality is
> not affected by messing
> with syllable counts
>
> it's not laziness
> but a choice to focus on
> a different aspect
>
> twenty syllables
> or twelve or fifteen is still
> a measured poem
>
> think of it as an
> act of flexibility;
> an exploration
>
> what can haiku do
> when stretched out of shape? can it
> still convey beauty?
>
> can it still convey
> stillness; moments caught in time?
> I think that it can.
>
> flexibility
> opens doors, brings new people
> to the haiku world
>
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> ----------
> >From: Michael Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: adam ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, five7five <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [X] "it just seems lazy"
> >Date: Fri, Jul 6, 2001, 8:00 AM
> >
>
> > 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
> >> __________________________________________________________________
> >> the man responsible for Jutchy Ya Ya, Duck Fat and various stupid comics.
> >> condescending, ill-informed, paternalistic and selling out since 1998
> >> PO Box 1297, North Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia, 3068
> >> Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppet head.
> >>
> >> > Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:58:26 -0400
> >> > From: Michael Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], five7five <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> > Subject: Re: [X] count'em
> >> >
> >> > I won't be upset
> >> > if syllables don't add up.
> >> > It just seems lazy.
> >>
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