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Neat, David; if youre really into this, you'd enjoy a whole book of them, perhaps: frogments from the frag pool by Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu 5.75 x 5.75 in, 128pp, paperback ISBN-10: 1-55128-112-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-112-4 November 2005 $17.95 It's a series of every kind of take on that haiku you can imagine.... Doug On 9-Jun-10, at 12:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote: > *(one of multiple versions of this re-write of Basho I've done - but > decidedly a 'Snap')* > ** > *Chizzitku* > > > > A old puddle, shallow; > > a frog flops off its spot. Yay. > > Splopt. > > Innit. > > > > > > *Chizzit* : an inhabitant of Leicester, as in 'how mu*ch izzit*? A > coinage > reputedly of the shopkeepers > > and hoteliers of Skegness. > > > > -- > (David) "Dave no more" Joseph Bircumshaw > "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling" > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ Latest books: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html because I want to die writing Haiku or, better, long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes! Phyllis Webb