I used to spend my spare moments in calculus writing sexy haikus. So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester. posted by cowbellemoo at 12:59 PM on November 1, 2007
So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester.
Fingers?
I bet you can do a hell of a card trick. posted by cashman at 1:02 PM on November 1, 2007
If I could hybridize twitter with something else, I would not choose haiku. I would choose a glue trap. posted by Wolfdog at 1:04 PM on November 1, 2007 [2 favorites]
There's actually a mefite who has been posting poetic twitters lately. posted by drezdn at 1:05 PM on November 1, 2007
Posting in a haiku form seems like it'd be a neat little creative challenge. I think I may give that a shot. posted by CitrusFreak12 at 1:08 PM on November 1, 2007
I used to spend my spare moments in calculus writing sexy haikus. So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester.
That's a fucking lot of fingers. posted by dersins at 1:08 PM on November 1, 2007
Fingers?
I bet you can do a hell of a card trick.
Quit staring at my dangling modifier! How embarrassing! posted by cowbellemoo at 1:10 PM on November 1, 2007
SLBOE
GYOFBFW
DTMFA posted by bondcliff at 1:12 PM on November 1, 2007
and cowbellemoo produces yet another haiku masterpiece posted by Sam.Burdick at 1:13 PM on November 1, 2007
Cashman makes bad joke
Dersins joins in on the fun
Cowbellemoo is milked posted by cashman at 1:15 PM on November 1, 2007
Yeah, was that intentional, cowbellmoo?
Quit staring at my
Dangling modifier!
How embarrassing!
Because if not, wow. posted by tepidmonkey at 1:17 PM on November 1, 2007
Oh my gosh, quit it! If I could edit the post I would, but I can't. posted by cowbellemoo at 1:18 PM on November 1, 2007
nono... i'm sure we can't stop!
Metafilter:
Oh my gosh, quit it!
If I could edit the post I
would, but I can't.
like silver dripping from the very heavens upon our dark and blighted land! posted by Sam.Burdick at 1:28 PM on November 1, 2007
You guys are so mean! I get it! Stop repeating everything I say!
Well I suppose it's not even plausible now. So I'll quit trying. posted by cowbellemoo at 1:38 PM on November 1, 2007
I strongly suspect this thread's about to take a turn for the surreal. posted by dersins at 1:38 PM on November 1, 2007
Well I suppose it's
not even plausible now.
So I'll quit trying.
I don't think I need to, goatdog. Apparently, however, you do. posted by dersins at 3:18 PM on November 1, 2007
(In other words, next time count twice-- or even three times-- before you snark.) posted by dersins at 3:19 PM on November 1, 2007
So, is some human assembling these haikus from various users tweets (ugh!) and then posting them? I suppose that's really the only way it would work...
I wish the user icons would show up next to their line. Somehow that seems like it would give strange context to everything. posted by oneirodynia at 3:29 PM on November 1, 2007
(erm, I hope you don't think I was calling you an asshole, tepidmonkey. I was actually thinking of me being grouchy about haiku.) posted by oneirodynia at 3:30 PM on November 1, 2007
Now I feel the need to count every word you post to find the haikus. posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 3:58 PM on November 1, 2007
Count the syllables, not the words. But does "every" have two or three? posted by dersins at 4:44 PM on November 1, 2007
It's hard for me at least. Fingers bring me victory, not shame. posted by cowbellemoo at 5:15 PM on November 1, 2007
See, dersins, this is why I need all 52 fingers. posted by goatdog at 5:18 PM on November 1, 2007
Sorry:
See dersins, this is why I need all 52 fingers. Um. Yeah. Sigh. posted by goatdog at 5:23 PM on November 1, 2007
He delighted in
Her modesty but undressed
Her rather quickly
nice! it even scans as a good haiku. where you can read any two lines you like and get good imagery out of it. posted by Sam.Burdick at 6:43 PM on November 1, 2007
where you can read any two lines you like and get good imagery out of it.
Where'd you get the idea that that's required for a good haiku?
(Err, that sounded like a challenge. I'm really just curious — it's an interesting idea but I've never heard it before, and I was Really Into haiku for a while.) posted by nebulawindphone at 7:24 PM on November 1, 2007
Oddly spaced linebreaks do not change a choppy phrase into a haiku. posted by agent at 8:06 PM on November 1, 2007
nebulawindphone,
I probably should have been more succinct in my post. It is actually something that I have thought on while reading Japanese history, poetry and zen philosophy.
The idea briefly; haiku seems to me to be a way of capturing an experience in a few terse, yet powerful, lines. And that if you look at any piece of the haiku each piece could be its own experience.
It is, admittedly, a reductive look at haiku. And there are haiku which do not work. But, I found that I enjoyed haiku more when I do that.
A classic example of Haiku by Basho (1600s), translated of course
The old pond:
a frog jumps in,-
the sound of water.
This one works particularly well, calling up singally images of a pond, a frog and the sound of water. Placed together they call up a total image. But each line can be taken with one other line to encapsulate a different way of looking at the poem. eg.
The old pond:
the sound of water.
gets you, if you've seen how good gardeners (and particularly good japanese gardeners) leave nothing to chance and don't just have an old pond there to look at. But, they also include some way of experiencing the sound of water.
at least.... that's how I read it. posted by Sam.Burdick at 8:49 PM on November 1, 2007
The idea briefly; haiku seems to me to be a way of capturing an experience in a few terse, yet powerful, lines.
Ideally. But in practice, as seen in the English-speaking world, it's most typically a joke of an exercise primarily carried out by those whose poetic scope is limited to syllable-accountancy. posted by Wolfdog at 10:47 AM on November 2, 2007
Wolfdog, you say that as though there's no poetry in accountancy. posted by dersins at 11:12 AM on November 2, 2007
There is poetry to be found nearly everywhere, but most so-called haiku are an outright failure at reveal any. Is there, then, you might ask, any poetry to be found in these nonpoetic haiku? Good question. posted by Wolfdog at 11:38 AM on November 2, 2007
The poetry of the nonpoetic is the poetry of Now. posted by dersins at 12:00 PM on November 2, 2007 [1 favorite]
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I used to spend my spare moments in calculus writing sexy haikus. So I would be sitting in the math lectures counting on my fingers all the time. I had 52 of them by the end of the semester.
posted by cowbellemoo at 12:59 PM on November 1, 2007