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    Have the "Haiku" writers on Answers ever read the Japanese Greats of the 16th Century?

    Would be well if you did....5-7-5 is outdated, and, only the American equivalent of a structure that denies the true Japanese heritage of this format and syllabic content. Click on 'Basho' for a start, then use the links given..... If I ever would write a true, repeat>>>>>TRUE>>>>>Japanese...
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    For all those who want to argue over classic vs free verse, this "Knack Is A Lack?"

    poem, compromise. What c/c? Entwine the rhyme, but free the bird that flies on high and lacks the time to sit and perch the grand design.
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    Is 'nothing' a tough subject to write about?

    Write about something and it's deemed as nothing, but it is something that nothing cannot detract from, only add to, thus creating more to deem nothing. Here comes that avalanching snowball! With that said....there's a sonnet-type something in the uh....'nothing' you wrote? Coffee!!!! Good Morning!
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    What comments on 'Poetry From The Porch....True Story' poem?

    In the time of Brown Pelicans, he set traps in the marshes, round Intracoastal way, down one lone stream, ending in 'off limits'. When the moon shattered into dawn, he paddled past mossed cypresses' gold-browns, burnt oranges, straggling colors still unsure of cold, warm, frost. Cold sweat...
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    What comments on 'A Truth Tribute To A Master Poet' morning poem?

    The branch upholds the leaves, as your mind upheld whispers on the page, white nothingness, until words scrawled from your ever-supply of calligraphy pens...poetry appeared.... thrown on the floor in angst, picked up in revision.... Do you write when winds blow whispers to God.... Do you...
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