Comments on: 3 haiku schmaiku

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:46:26 +0000

There sure is something in that thought..

By: harmonie22

harmonie22 — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:12:32 +0000

Your haiku shmaiku is great! Anyone who is compelled to write poetry is a poet. I really liked Johemmant’s comment/breakdown of it too, art is never static its always changing as you change and go through moods. I feel that each and every poem I write is different than the other. You’re a poet of the first-class order, and I know that all our good readers will agree.
thankyou, change but hopefully a single unified aesthetic running through a body of work, a signature if you like can be quite important, you want to create a body of work more than write another poem,

By: lissa

lissa — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:54:55 +0000

it’s genius to be able to evoke so much meaning into only nine lines. love that last stanza. i like the way the poem defines ocean and sea, poetry and poet, but in the end maybe the only distinction between the two are the ones i choose. a person’s feelings on whether or not they are or aren’t a poet can fluctuate and change moment from moment.
Haha, thankyou Lissa, i know you are right cos i was agreeing with Sumedh and now I am agreeing with you, i changed my mind so you must be right, hmm, i’ confuseded now, too many hugs have twirled my brain,

By: Sumedh

Sumedh — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:51:50 +0000

Well, in short, I really loved this. Ocean and the sea, poetry and the poet. Amazing!

However, IMHO, I think being a poet is a certain kind of way of being, or rather a mental disposition, and I feel it is unrelated to actually penning down a single word!

Of course, it is geniuses like you and Eliot who happen to be combinations of that mental disposition and verbs of actually penning them down…
Thanks Sumedh, I agree, it is a way of thinking, of processing information, yes that is my current position too,

By: Writer Reading

Writer Reading — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:03 +0000

I’m sorry. I’m an agent from the International Haiku Accounting Board and you overstayed your syllable count. You owe us twelve syllables, preferably in t, p and k’s those power “mute” consonants we so value. In addition, I’m afraid that your distinction between the ocean and the c is merely spurious, meant to defraud, delude and confuse your readers. Just to clarify, this is by all regulations a Shmaiku and not a Haiku. And finally, poets can be clearly distinguished from those merely writing poetry by their universal garb: The Roman Toga and black cowboy boots.
ocean, sound goes up, o, smacks down like a wave, shun. seeeee sound stretches out endlessly, bloody accountants,
hahaha, snakeskin boots,

By: enigma

enigma — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:30:46 +0000

But is there really a differance? smile and ((((((you)))))
woohoo Enigma hugs, my favourite, (((((((((((((((((((you)))))))))))))))))) yayayaya