Mike Snider of Formal Blog and Sonnetarium fame, pointed us towards a political poem indeed on The Fool in the Forest. Not only is the poem an editorial in verse (concerning that obscene amendment endorsed by GWB) but it's written in a most difficult form : double dactyl. Nicely done in both form and content.
A PASSING MOMENT
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This is my rather loose translation of a hokku by Ōemaru, who lived into
the first five years of the 19th century. For a moment,Autumn seen on the
hillsAt ...
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