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I love that haiku can be used to make fun of both life and haiku itself. In spite of its history of deep meaning and sparse wording, haiku can also be frivolous and a little bit silly.
Haiku can also be perfectly timed and eerily auspicious as well. We spent the third week of June in Germany celebrating the 90th birthday of my German "mother." (I was a Lion's Club exchange student in high school. The six weeks I spent with Elisabeth's family the summer she turned 50 mark a watershed moment in my growing up years.)
I want to be 90 like THAT! |
This was the Daily Issa in my email inbox on Elisabeth's birthday:
old pine
starting a new year...
how many spring mists?
1812
.老松や改て又幾かすみ
oi matsu ya aratamete mata iku kasumi
Tricia has today's Poetry Friday roundup at The Miss Rumphius Effect.