So says Homyguy Z:
> > "Stilgar, do we have wormsign?"
> > "Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even Homyguy Z has never
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> You did notice
4 syllables.
> the feeling was mutual
> regarding haikus.
The art of haikus is compressing lots of imagery into a small package. Like
T.S. Eliot's non-haiku poetry and Ernest Hemingway's prose. Same idea. If you
can't say what you want to say in a haiku, then you don't use it, simple as
that.
- Avenger
Homyguy Z - 17 Sep 2003 04:36 GMT
> So says Homyguy Z:
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> 4 syllables.
I keep mistyping my haikus for some reason. That should have been "didn't".
> > the feeling was mutual
> > regarding haikus.
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> can't say what you want to say in a haiku, then you don't use it, simple as
> that.
I know that. I was being a smartass.
-Homyguy Z
Nathan M - 18 Sep 2003 21:25 GMT
"Saint Avenger" <aven@agff.ca> said in a deathly whisper...:
> So says Homyguy Z:
>
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> Same idea. If you can't say what you want to say in a haiku, then you
> don't use it, simple as that.
Here's a couple of haikus I composed for a local newspaper's pirate haiku
contest. (Tomorrow is official "Talk like a pirate," day.)
Arrr, let's crash The Edge.
Arrr, Arrrrrrrrrr, have one syllable.
ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR is it working?
(The Edge is the very slim newspaper column, about 1.5 inches wide, in
which the haikus would appear.)
and
Dank trails follow ships
Pirates fear to walk the plank
Seven seas? Sewage.

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