In article <1179695132.016574.115100@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, FCS
<sipston_777@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 19, 10:16 am, Blue Sow <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Skipper wrote:
> > > In article <464e325a$0$19225$fa0fc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Blue Sow
> > > <janet.r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> > >> Skipper wrote:
> >
> > >>>>> Afternoon in autumn
> > >>>>> Winding lifting leaves, one floats free
> > >>>>> Spirit tells this is a special life
> > >>>> Is that your own?
> > >>> Yep, just made 'er up.
> > >> So, any more for
> > >> any more, now a thread be
> > >> started up at last
> >
> > > Blue sow feeling like a flower
> > > Misunderstood by one not knowing the name
> > > Blooms in spring verging on summer
> >
> > I have to wait until July for them here, usually.
> > But in a similar vein ...
> >
> > Skipper flutters by
> > Placing poems here and there
> > Sunlit sea sparkles.
> >
> > (I had the choice of the butterfly or a 'captain', no doubt among
others.)
> >
> > --
> > Blue Sow
> > aka Blue Sow-thistle- Hide quoted text -
> >
> > - Show quoted text -
>
> Sticky summer sweet
> salad rustles, leaves spring forth
> hurdling clocks, to wit
>
> * NB I am correct in thinking that
> although haiku can be stand-alone
> they can also be run into sets of
> stanzae, e.g., ABAB/CDCD/CBCB/ADAD
> to form "complete" poems, yes?
>
> G DAEB
>
> COPYRIGHT (C) 2007 SIPSTON
> --
It's a 17-syllable thing with variations as I understand it. Check out
the Wikipedia definition. Also, you need the "season" or nature thing
in there somewhere.
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