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.
SNOWY NIGHT
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Here is a winter hokku by Issa, this time needing no major changes:
夜の雪だまって通る人もありyoru no yuki damatte tôru hito mo arinight ‘s snow silently
passing people...
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