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patamystic aka patamyxtic aka pumiquxt aka haiQ fOO

fascist peekaboo

wannabe oligarchy
a vast & clamorous asylum
fascist peekaboo

pendulous tear cows

blood of christ glasses
hanging from the book shelf
pendulous tear cows

tuna (hot) dogs

twitter twucks
ecstasy for violence
tuna (hot) dogs

butterfly butterfly

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

in the subway station

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.

haiQu conventions: syllables

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

s(h)ituation

dada heckling
animist metaphysics
s(h)ituation

de-colonize your mind

persondatory
gentrification furries
de-colonize your mind