Doug
I was more interested in applying that haiku to a specific context but I'd
probably like that book too: I'll file it in* to gets*.
thanks
On 9 June 2010 16:00, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Neat, David;
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> if youre really into this, you'd enjoy a whole book of them, perhaps:
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> frogments from the frag pool
> by Gary Barwin and derek beaulieu
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> 5.75 x 5.75 in, 128pp, paperback
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> ISBN-10: 1-55128-112-0
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> ISBN-13: 978-1-55128-112-4
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> November 2005
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> $17.95
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> It's a series of every kind of take on that haiku you can imagine....
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> Doug
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> On 9-Jun-10, at 12:55 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> *(one of multiple versions of this re-write of Basho I've done - but
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>> decidedly a 'Snap')*
>> **
>> *Chizzitku*
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>> A old puddle, shallow;
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>> a frog flops off its spot. Yay.
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>> Splopt.
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>> Innit.
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>> *Chizzit* : an inhabitant of Leicester, as in 'how mu*ch izzit*? A coinage
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>> reputedly of the shopkeepers
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>> and hoteliers of Skegness.
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>> --
>> (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
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> Douglas Barbour
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
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> because I want to die
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> writing Haiku
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> or, better,
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> long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
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> Phyllis Webb
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(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
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