Words, Words, Words - it's only words (Jul/21/2009 )
face-off
Old pond...
frog leaps in
Water's sound
I think its one of the famous ones, I like these, though they're not technically haiku
toshi kurenu
kasa kite waraji
hakinagara
another year is gone
a traveler's shade on my head,
straw sandals at my feet
and
iza saraba
yukimi ni korobu
tokoromade
now then, let's go out
to enjoy the snow... until
I slip and fall!
opponent
Hi Lost, cassata, anyone else in forumland. It's Friday, almost lunchtime, so I'm doing just fine!
@lost, I didn't know Star Trek did any DNA cleanup work. I mean why else would you want a vacuum manifold? lol
rival
@swanny, heh thats so right, but only remember it as the "sucking thingy" in the lab. I'm sure their warp drive conduits always have vacum manifolds in them or something
arrival
I have always ignored haikus as I found them difficult to understand; but once U understand them, looks like they make sense. Seems like the good and old ones have more deeper meaning than what we usually think of.
I know just one :
赤とんぼ
(red dragon fly)
の羽を取ったら
(remove wings)
とんがらし
(capsicum)
departure
heh, I like it although poor little dragonfly. I can't work out if the frog one is a deep one or just an observation, but its nice to hear read. The staw sandals one, I like cause its how I sometimes feel (especially here) and the winter one is sooo right.
okuribito
the first time I heard it from my friend's girlfried when we were having lunch, I was shocked. She told this so calmly.
Best foreign language film
Yeah, I can see why you'd be a bit shocked, I hope she didn't demonstrate the poem for you
japanese
to tell U the truth, I first felt sorry for my friend until she said there should be another meaning than what it sounds like.
I was googling the haiku of the frog . . if I don't stop now, I will be writing a review paper on that with more than 40 references.
Asian
I'm sure it'll be a freshing change in the next lab meeting
I"m having a bad grammar day today
food
I was speaking to a friend (a Canuck) who wrote his resignation letter in Haiku. I can't rememember the it well but it was funny but complete. He was telling me that someone summarised her work in a single Haiku when receiving the IgNobel award. I wonder what will happen if I try the same for my final defence.
India has Shaeri but they have very difficult words in them that is beyond the level of Hindi that I can understand.