I was thinking... dangerous occupation... and I thought of submitting for Boyd an example or two of the following.

A haibun is a Japanese piece, essentially prose, with an embedded haiku or more. I was thinking, what if I did one that quoted a haiku by CAS, making sure that it's obvious which bit isn't mine, and posted it up here, as an experiment.

What would you guys think?

Also, if you want, look at "The meadows of Ebony", and let me know if I should contribute more prose poems. Mind you, that was the first piece I wrote that I've kept, so my prose poem style has changed a bit since then...:)

Phillip

Phillip

Yay! You used a Japanese word! Yoku dekimashita! (well done)

Megan

Phillip

Yay! You used a Japanese word! Yoku dekimashita! (well done)

Megan

damnit I posted twice. Curse this keyboard!

Given that the haibun is a Japanese form, I had to use a Japanese word, no?

me

yes, but it makes me happy to hear people using Japanese words other than 'samurai', 'ninja' or 'sake'. yay!

meg

anime
Godzilla
pokemon
sayonara
tora tora tora!
seppuku
tanka
...:)

hahaha. funny.

you forgot hentai. ^_^

DOMO ARIGOTO, MR. ROBOTO!

:P

If someone says Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, I shall smack them!

voleboy Wrote:
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> If someone says Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD, I shall smack
> them!


Frankly, I'm more worried about Godzilla sightings. Or maybe a bunch of Deep Ones overrunning Tokyo after becoming pissed about the worldwide rage for sushi....

Scott

That's like expecting the mi-go to have protests about truffles....

Opus 1625: quotation haibun

Huntest thou my heart, for thou art huntress and mistress of mine soul and very whole. But come, beloved, and smile awhile upon your lover here, never to fear he shalt away with another but stay thy lover forever.

Come, sweet, greet me here as lovers do. I shalt pay what is due to the gods who watch over us, from gods of clover to gods of love and bliss. I shalt swear this single thing before all who gather: I calleth each to hear these words. For seizest the day, does the breeze.

The breeze seizest, and we shalt see through dream and day a way to love and loving joy. I am thy toy to play with, make or else to break as children spurnest, turnest away from games they have cast aside. I hath sighed for want of you, my sweet love, as the fleet days hath advanced without your heart to pour my sighs and songs and winsome wrongs into. I only longeth....

I longeth only to say, inasmuch the same way as was said, sagely wise, by the eyes of the poet, these lines Clark Ashton Smith designed...

From the nameless dark distilled,
Lethe flows
Through the night that no man knows.

Lethe flows, and knowest thou this truth? In ruth hath I proof....

25/08/04

Aww, you always have purdy poems.

Here's a little verse:

If I was a fish
And I had a wish
I'd be someone's dish
On Sunday!


Hah, mind you, I was 13, drunk and climbing a ladder when I made this. Mwa ha ha!
Okay, I'm done. ^_^

Oh, and one more Japanese reference.... Basho! Banana tree!

Novena

I would be more catholic and say Friday instead of Sunday.

me