A Loon; A Sea (part two)
It's like a surfer in a storm
who longs to ride a wave that roars
within the mouth of some excited
river. People on the shores
expect his mad untimely death.
Instead he catches a second breath.
FROM RHYTHM TO STRESS IN HOKKU
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Most of you already know the notion that hokku is seventeen syllables
arranged in a 5/7/5 pattern is wrong. Many people were taught that in
modern haiku (b...
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