ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): haiku

Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts

Showing posts with label haiku. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI

"A Poppy Blooms"

I write, erase, rewrite

Erase again, and then

A poppy blooms.

Monday, March 6, 2023

EZRA POUND

"In a Station of the Metro"

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The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

NATSUME SŌSEKI

"Over the Wintry"

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Over the wintry

Forest, winds howl in rage

With no leaves to blow.

Monday, February 27, 2023

YOSA BUSON

"Lighting One Candle"

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The light of a candle

Is transferred to another candle—

Spring twilight

Sunday, February 26, 2023

MATSUO BASHŌ

"The Old Pond"

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An old silent pond

A frog jumps into the pond—

Splash! Silence again.

Saturday, December 17, 2022

TAKAHAMA KYOSHI

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“Cawa-cawa”

In a large and loose way,

The winter crow.

Friday, December 16, 2022

BASHŌ

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’Tis the first snow—

Just enough to bend

The gladiolus leaves!

Thursday, November 21, 2019

BASHŌ

Autumn moonlight -
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.

Saturday, March 16, 2019

JACK KEROUAC

In my medicine cabinet
the winter fly
has died of old age

Thursday, July 13, 2017

KOBAYASHI ISSA

Sitting serenely,
a plump toad enjoys viewing
the mountain horizon

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.