april fool

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so many roads
for haiku and senryu --
April Fool




Gabi on the morning of April 1 in Japan

shigatsu baka
WD shigatsu baka .. april fool



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I was inspired not only by the exchange of opinions about this subject, but also by the new World Haiku Review, which hit me this morning ...

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Editorial
by Susumu Takiguchi
source : World Haiku Review, March 2009

The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth is being celebrated across the world.

The interesting thing about Darwin is that the evolution of living things does not occur because they want it to happen. On the contrary, living things are in fact ultra-conservative and do not like evolution.
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I am in an evolutionary mood today and am thinking of the history of haiku in terms of evolution. It is 365 years since Basho’s birth and 400 to 500 years since the births of such fathers, or shall we say grandfathers, of haiku as Sokan Yamazaki, Moritake Arakida, Teitoku Matsunaga or Soin Nishiyama who all contributed to the development of Haikai-no-Renga which later begat haiku.
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The haiku evolution is still with us.
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Haiku now has so many different variants. However, almost all the origins of the modern haiku species outside Japan can be found in America. They experienced explosive evolution through the most unnatural selection ...
There have been no survival of the fittest (haiku) because there just has not been any need for these species to try to survive; they have thrived.



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The Great Fool,Ryokan san (良寛, 1758-1831)

WKD . Ryokan, Great Fool、Taigu 大愚



Awa Odori 阿波踊り　(あわおどり)
Awa Dance for O-Bon

odoru ahoo ni miru ahoo onaji ahoo nara odoranya son son
odoru aho ni miru aho onaji aho nara odoranya son son
tanzende Narren ........... dancing fools
zuschauende Narren .... watching fools
wenn schon ein Narr .... if I have to be a fool
dann lieber tanzen . ........ I'd rather dance

WKD . Awa Odori Dance in Tokushima




Sometimes I feel like a fool,
trying to perserve
traditional Japanese HAIKU.


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. . . Read my Haiku Archives 2009


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