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Global Warming

October 8, 2018Uncategorizedaldwarke

In a state of denial President Trump says man-made global warming is a hoax. Euro scientists are aghast and demand precautionary action.

Tanka

Earth might be warming

Let’s have a big conference

The polar bear sits

On a shrinking floe of ice

Thinking ‘Go on. Surprise me.’

Haiku

Haiku is a very short form of Japanese poetry traditionally characterised by three qualities:

1: The essence of haiku is “cutting” (kiru). This is often represented by the juxtaposition of two images or ideas and a kireji (“cutting word”) between them, a kind of verbal punctuation mark which signals the moment of separation and colours the manner in which the juxtaposed elements are related.

2. Traditional haiku consist of 17 on (loosely translated as “syllables”), in three phrases of 5, 7, and 5 on, respectively. (or alternatively 3, 5, and 3 on, respectively.)

3. A kigo (seasonal reference), usually drawn from a saijiki, an extensive but defined list of such terms.

Modern Japanese haiku (現代俳句 gendai-haiku) are increasingly unlikely to follow the tradition of 17 on or to take nature as their subject[citation needed], but the use of juxtaposition continues to be honoured in both traditional and modern haiku. There is a common, although relatively recent, perception that the images juxtaposed must be directly observed everyday objects or occurrences….

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

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