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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: <span><span name="Brooks, Mark"></span></span><span><span name="Montgomery Michael"></span></span><span><span name="Veturlidi Oskarsson"></span></span><span><span name="Heinrich Becker"></span></span><span><span name="Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell"></span></span><span><span name="Theo Homan"></span></span><span><span name="Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong"></span></span><span><span name="Roland Desnerck"></span></span><span><span name="Mike Morgan"></span></span></font><span class="gI"><span name="Hellinckx Luc" class="gD">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span></span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Literature"</span></span></font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">
<font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br><span></span></font></span></font></p><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beste Ron,</span></font><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</span></font><div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">You wrote:</span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><blockquote type="cite">
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In real haiku, it is at least as important to allude to the season and
to make the whole thing into a "snapshot," a momentary burst of
awareness of impermanence. Many Westerners consciously try to build in
allusions of the philosophical or moral kinds, also refer to their
emotions directly, none of which has a place in haiku.<br></span></font></blockquote><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That
is, because, as everybody knows, every Westerner is the center of the
whole universe...by definition. The universe complies with "our"
standards. ;=)))</span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Kind greetings,</span></font></div>
<div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium<br><br>----------<br><br></span></font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Literature<br><br>Thanks, Luc.<br><br>Although I would probably not put it as harshly tongue-in-cheek as you did, I think you got to the bottom of it. <br><br>Real <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku">haiku</a> are not "me poems" <i>à </i></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><i><span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="fr"><span class="hps alt-edited">l'occidentale</span></span></i>. They are "aha! poems." They do not seek to moralize or explain. They merely observe. The writer accepts his or her insignificance and the impermanence of life and of the world, an awareness triggered by momentary encounters with certain sights, smells or sounds. Even if these are man-made, the natural world is at least implied and "trumps" (for instance early snow covering a pair of left-behind gardening gloves in one of <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/gallery/hahn_haiku-en.php">my haiku</a> -- though I wouldn't consider mine exemplary by any stretch of the imagination). <br>
<br>If a poem with Haiku meter does not directly deal with season and nature but instead deals with humanity, especially with the state, weaknesses and folly of humanity, namely constitutes a social comment, then it is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senry%C5%AB"><i>senryū</i></a> <span style="font-weight:normal">(<span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja">川柳, literally "river willow"); e.g.</span></span></font></span> one written by Senryū Karai (柄井川柳, 1718-1790):<dl>
<dd>泥棒を <i>dorobō wo</i></dd><dd>捕えてみれば <i>toraete mireba</i></dd><dd>我が子なり <i>wagako nari</i></dd></dl><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja">Literally: "the robber / when/as you catch (him) / turns out to be your child/son"</span></span></font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><span style="font-weight:normal"><span class="t_nihongo_kanji" lang="ja"> (my translation).<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</span></span></font></span><br></div></div></div><font><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font><br></font></span></font>
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