Snow, delicate light
Utility of winter
Snowbirds on lightlines
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Thomas Hood
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Tangential as usual, I just wanted to share that I heard there was a Chinese poet who was beheaded for writing the poem:
Perhaps not coincidentally, the characters for "cool breeze" were also those that stood for the name of the Emperor, who either could read or who had someone around him who could read, interpret and advise. I heard this as an undergraduate and I don't recall the name of the poet or the Emperor.Cool Breeze, you cannot read.
Why keep turning pages?
"Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words so that I can talk with him?"
-- Chuang-Tzu (c. 200 B.C.E.)
as quoted by Robert A. Burton
-- Chuang-Tzu (c. 200 B.C.E.)
as quoted by Robert A. Burton
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Thomas Hood
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_tabooGentleReader9 wrote:. . . there was a Chinese poet who was beheaded for writing the poem:
Cool Breeze, you cannot read.
Why keep turning pages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_Inquisition
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Thomas Hood
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Defining haiku:Interbane wrote:What is haiku? Are the parameters close to what you guys have been writing? My thoughts run darker than what I read here, I'd be a downer.
First situation and then
realization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
-- historical complexities
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/bradyawards/brady.htm#1988
-- modern simplicities
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