A Loon; A Sea (part one)
It was an angry sea that day
but loons were laughing in its face
and poking at its eye, diving
to that deep and hidden place
where calmer waters fill the brain
with something from the zen of Maine.
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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