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patamystic aka patamyxtic aka pumiquxt aka haiQ fOO
twitter twucks
ecstasy for violence
tuna (hot) dogs
to the temple bell
natural sleep level
sleep
butterfly
butterfly
english > arabic > spanish > bosnian > hindi > japanese > german > english
original haiku by Buson:
on the temple bell
sleeping
a butterfly
a few years ago, i was inspired by Buson's haiku to write this little homage to it:
a butterfly
sleeping
on scat
this was first published at Versification: A Punk Zine of micro poetry, but it appears not to be online any more
this is the arrival of people among people
dark, light brown petals
english > afrikaans > persian > ddinka > uyghur > benghali > english
original:
“In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
5 - 7 - 5, whether in haiQu or haiku or senryu, has never been a rule. it began as a misunderstanding and most contemporary haiku poets know this.
still, in order to be recognizable as a relative of haiku, most haiQu follows the common form of:
short line to open
longer line in the middle
short line to finish
but i have, on occasion, also used:
longer line to open
shorter line
longer line to finish
exceptions and variations are allowed, as long as they don't result in poems that have an absence of similarities to haiku
dada heckling
animist metaphysics
s(h)ituation
persondatory
gentrification furries
de-colonize your mind
platform polymarket
entropic confabulations
pumpkin kool-aid
This poem is widely known, much praised, and probably parodied more than any other. If you're poetry literate, you'll probably recognize the poem right away.
It was said
I don't eat
the peach
It is
inside
the fridge
what
it can
Therefore
do the country
I'm sorry
delicious
forever dear
And very personable
This poem has been translated thusly:
english > arabic > igbo > portuguese > dutch > mecedonian > cantonese > punjabi > english
Original:
This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold