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Friday 8 July 2011
[F sharp minor]
F sharp minor the rings of Saturn and my fridge
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(years ago a Danish composer, Per Nørgaard, who have also composed over I-Ching, Mahabharata and Gilgamesh, held a lecture over the Nasa recordings of various planet made by Voyager)
Sunday 3 July 2011
Saturday 2 July 2011
Friday 1 July 2011
Thursday 30 June 2011
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Friday 24 June 2011
Tuesday 21 June 2011
Thursday 16 June 2011
Wednesday 15 June 2011
Friday 10 June 2011
Wednesday 1 June 2011
Sunday 29 May 2011
Cosmic O
whirlpool of detouring spermatozoa starlit wormholes
Friday 27 May 2011
Thursday 26 May 2011
Wednesday 25 May 2011
Sunday 22 May 2011
Friday 20 May 2011
Thursday 19 May 2011
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Monday 16 May 2011
Sunday 15 May 2011
Saturday 14 May 2011
Thursday 12 May 2011
Wednesday 11 May 2011
summer
summer child at the hip swaying as she gathers wildflowers
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Monday 9 May 2011
Sunday 8 May 2011
Friday 6 May 2011
Thursday 5 May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
Monday 2 May 2011
Nightmares
nocturnal thing a nightmare until it dawns on you
Sunday 1 May 2011
Bayou
Paper boat on the mountain bayou soon maybe ocean cruiser
Welcome
May 1, 2011
This blog is entended as a place to show and develop the so-called monostich haiku or the 1-line haiku. Many Western poets writing haiku, senryu and related short form poetry writes monostichs from time to time. The 1-line haiku often arises from a reluctance to break up an image in 3 lines - a desire to compact the haiku further. Sometimes it is used to cut away what is not needed in the poem – a discipline most short-form poets use more or less consciously in their daily practice or they take it on in an effort to make their language even more precise. But there can be all sorts of reasons for why a poet chooses the monostich form.
Haiku as such is generally written in one line in its native Japanese form. But the life of haiku in the West - where it is usually written in 3 lines – has made it undergo various re-interpretations mainly due to the differences in Western and Japanese culture.
True, many Western poets have written minimalistic poetry of various kinds through the ages, but the aim for this blog is to show forth monostichs written by poets rooted in haiku and related forms.
The monostich can present itself as extremely condensed. It is apparently fast read, but it can be intriguingly complex despite its shortness, “lack of words” and is easily overlooked. They can linger on in your mind as very complex images with the same magnetism as the childhood pictures-within-pictures.
The monostich thrive in the underwood of the haiku forest. The purpose for this blog is to provide an extra place for the monostich to grow and hopefully show forth its worth and special character.
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This text is also posted under "About"
This blog is entended as a place to show and develop the so-called monostich haiku or the 1-line haiku. Many Western poets writing haiku, senryu and related short form poetry writes monostichs from time to time. The 1-line haiku often arises from a reluctance to break up an image in 3 lines - a desire to compact the haiku further. Sometimes it is used to cut away what is not needed in the poem – a discipline most short-form poets use more or less consciously in their daily practice or they take it on in an effort to make their language even more precise. But there can be all sorts of reasons for why a poet chooses the monostich form.
Haiku as such is generally written in one line in its native Japanese form. But the life of haiku in the West - where it is usually written in 3 lines – has made it undergo various re-interpretations mainly due to the differences in Western and Japanese culture.
True, many Western poets have written minimalistic poetry of various kinds through the ages, but the aim for this blog is to show forth monostichs written by poets rooted in haiku and related forms.
The monostich can present itself as extremely condensed. It is apparently fast read, but it can be intriguingly complex despite its shortness, “lack of words” and is easily overlooked. They can linger on in your mind as very complex images with the same magnetism as the childhood pictures-within-pictures.
The monostich thrive in the underwood of the haiku forest. The purpose for this blog is to provide an extra place for the monostich to grow and hopefully show forth its worth and special character.
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This text is also posted under "About"
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