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20 July 2004

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eeksypeeksy

I don't even know what haibun is. (Well, now I do, but I had to look it up.) I live on Planet X. A thousand thanks.

whiskey

Many thanks from me as well. Maybe not a thousand. That must be a haibun-like thing. Which, by the way, I tried to look up, but couldn't find. What does it mean?

SB

"Paul Conneally, Haibun Director of the World Haiku Club and Review, defines [haibun] as: Prose that has many of the characteristics associated with haiku - present tense (and shifts of tense though predominant voice 'present'), imagistic, shortened or interesting syntax, joining words such as 'and' limited maybe, a sense of 'being there', descriptions of places people met and above all "brevity."

From What Is Haibun? A haibun usually has a haiku associated with it as well. I recommend Basho's Narrow Road to the Interior; I like the Sam Hamill translation -- a nice little book one can carry in a pocket.

whiskey

Ah yes. I think that is an apt description of eeksypeeksys style, which I find rapturously inspirational too.

Ivy

Thanks, Sharon. You, of course, are a gem.

qB

and thanks from me too... i'm honoured, and gratified... it is exactly what i would love to have said about me.

downing

I too want to thank you for your kind words, past and present. I have only been poblogging under my current nom de plume for about five months, and the experience has been the richer for the good people I have virtually met. I think it's funny you'd say I am among those who influenced you, when the reverse is just as true!

(Oh, but I should probably mention that the personal pronoun you employ in referring to me is, well, not exactly accurate...)

best,
Nicholas

ps. Those daily poems petered out, unfortunately. April really is the cruelest month.

SB

Heh. One of the things I love about the web -- I really can't tell, and so my own assumptions are betrayed.

What was amazing about the poem-every-day was how good they were --

Nice to meet you, Nicholas.

mjones

Late to the table: but thanks for the kind words. As always!

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