as the world flows by
I wonder what my fate will be,
if I look away
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Welcome to the haiku club
Haiku are a form of Japanese poetry that are written in three lines with a syllable count of five, seven, five. But don't let that stop you writing whatever you like. There are no fascists here and any contribution you wish to make is welcome. Here we seek the sublime, and if we can't have that, we'll just have a laugh. It's all good.
With the current picture as your inspiration, pile in to the comments and have a go. At the end of the week I pick five and put them on the front page.
As the Japanese say - Let's enjoyment haiku!
selfishness.......selflessness
Everything here is an expression of this continuum. Otherwise, the only certainty is change.
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8 comments:
This is narcissus by Waterhouse. It's actually cropped. The full picture is of Narcissus and Echo and can be seen here.
Looking at myself,
I could die of thirst because
I'm so pretty!
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Sorry I haven't been around Nobody, life's been rather busy and hectic :)
From Belgium
Just for once stuff 5-7-5, this is poetry. Not original of course, filched from P B Shelley.
Then the pied wind-flowers and the tulip tall,
And narcissi, the fairest among them all,
Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess,
Till they die of their own dear loveliness.
Hullo Skye, ha ha ha, that was a cracker.
Thanks FB, I liked that a lot. And I like how the words at the end rhyme with each other. I didn't know you could do that. It's kind of weird but fun.
From Belgium
Maybe I could give that a shot, huh, you never know, it could catch on. Blank verse is what Rita from Educating Rita referred to as getting the rhyme wrong but what is a philistine like me to know of such cultured things?
Btw please excuse me if the words grandmother and eggs come into juxtaposition but the Shelley came from a poem called The Sensitive Plant and is more about human philosophical attitudes than about gardening. If you can’t take all of it, it is worth cutting straight to the conclusion.
http://www.kalliope.org/digt.pl?longdid=shelley2003060601
as the world flows by
I wonder what my fate will be,
if I look away
seeing sight reversed.
beauty faded in the sun.
floats like an old leaf.
OH, god look at me
Is that a wrinkle I see?
A grey hair, beware!
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