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**** Annual Goanetters Meet ****
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Annual Goanetters Meet - January 3, 2012 - 12:30 - 2pm
Tourist Hostel, near the Old Secretariat, Panaji (Panjim)
Planning to attend? Send an email to [email protected] with contact details
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These two links to the Ogura HYAKUNIN ISSHU, are offered here to
alleviate uncertainty that may stem from loving, longing, reaching
out...
“The Hyakunin Isshu, in particular the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, is a
collection of 100 poems by 100 different poets. About 750 years ago,
the poet Fujiwara no Sadaie (also known as Teika) selected them. They
are fairly chronologically ordered from the seventh through the
thirteenth centuries. The poems are all ‘waka’ (now called ‘tanka’).
Waka are five-line poems of 31 syllables, arranged as 5, 7, 5, 7, 7.
The simplicity and beauty of the poems is still very much appreciated
in Japan and abroad.”
http://web.me.com/heli1/One_Hundred_Poems/Home.html
http://etext.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/frames/hyakuframes.html
(This link also has the poems in Romaji so one may try imagining what
they sound like.
Syllable length are even and there are only five vowels a (long Hindi
aa), ii (stressed ii), u (ooh), e (eh), o).
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venantius j pinto
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Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve
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