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*
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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
> 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"
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because I want to die
writing Haiku
or, better,
long lines, clean and syllabic as knotted bamboo. Yes!
Phyllis Webb
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