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Journal Entry 2 by veritas9 at Postal Release in Postal release, Postal Release -- Controlled Releases on Saturday, December 13, 2003
 Released on Saturday, December 13, 2003 at Postal Release in Postal release, Postal Release Controlled Releases.
Mailed to cytronella.
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Journal Entry 3 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Just arrived and I'm looking forward to enjoying all the haiku! Thanks so much for sending this little book on it's long journey to me, veritas9! I'll continue it's travels after I am finished with it!
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Journal Entry 4 by cytronella from Plantersville, Texas USA on Sunday, January 25, 2004
Grand fun, and I learned something about haiku as well, so very successful use of a Saturday two hours!!
What I learned:
Traditional haiku are arranged by season. I might have known this once to pass a test, but it feels like new information to me.
It's earliest roots are Chinese. Hello? Isn't everything?
5-7-5 is the most comman formula, but classic Japanese poet Shiki okayed a range of 15 to 25 syllables. Cool!!! Sometimes I have a haiku thought that will not fit the 17 syllable format, no matter how long I thesaurize the words.
My favorites:
First Quarter:
Danger lurks, where a
crushing avalanche of white
has buried my desk
The clocks disagree;
yet they all accuse me of
mismanaging time
Second Quarter:
Nothing there but fog . . .
and no light can penatrate
that memorandum.
Hark! I hear a beep!
Somewhere a newborn machine
cries for attention.
Third Quarter:
Truly, the Wise One
is creative: he invents
his own statistics.
A twig snaps; the woods
are alert. A beginning---
or maybe an end.
Fourth Quarter:
My cat on a hot
car hood, gathering warmth --- is
this why I commute?
The mystery is:
here is the fork in the road,
but which way is up?
Really, I enjoyed it so much, I think I am going to make a ray out of it. So many corporate types could benefit from the health aspects of a good laugh, and perhaps a new perspective when most needed, too!
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