Comments on: One winter in haiku

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:04:55 +0000

It might actually be easier to read them one by one on the photoblog site, but whatever works for you. Thanks for checking them out.

By: dale

dale — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:12:55 +0000

Sheesh. I can’t read this many haiku in one sitting! I’ll be back.

“Kernels of sun” is the one that’s most alive, for me. But there’s tons of good ones here. You were so off-the-cuff about the haiku you’d been writing that I didn’t go look at it. I should know my Bonta better than that by now :-)

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:33:20 +0000

Dave, I enjoyed this experiment. Why not?

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:02:29 +0000

Quite right. “Opposite” was just the first word that came to hand. I guess I meant schools of thought that are set up in opposition to each other: romanticism vs. classicism, avant-garde vs. mainstream, etc.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:12:30 +0000

Did you see my reply comment on my post? I used a musical analogy, like you do here. Don’t think I don’t appreciate the opposite of what I appreciate, because I do.

I have spent a lot of time with the opposite of what I appreciate — with both music and poetry — and that time has given me the ability to appreciate what I appreciate, while still appreciating, at least in some ways, its opposite.

(I am hesitant here with terms like “opposite” because I don’t know that there are really opposites where styles are concerned. Just different styles.)

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:34:15 +0000

I prefer English-language haiku with line breaks, but I like them this way, too. It’s a question of whether having those additional pauses (visual if not actual) helps or hinders the presentation.

As I was trying, perhaps ineptly, to express in my comment at your blog yesterday, the fact that I may prefer one thing some of the time doesn’t mean I can’t also appreciate its opposite. Poets and artists should be open to all approaches, in the same way that many if not most professional musicians are interested in all kinds of music.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:00:50 +0000

Whoa! Removing the line breaks from haiku goes against everything you stand for. Not everything, but still. You are all about those line breaks. Why did you remove them? How can you say they make a decent sequence, “especially with the line-breaks removed.” Have you had coffee again?