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Postby Wage Slave » Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:39 am

A British schoolgirl inspired by an autumnal stroll across a newly mown lawn has become the first non-Japanese person to win a prestigious haiku competition.

Gracie Starkey, 14, from Gloucestershire, beat more than 18,000 entries to take the prize in the English-language section of the contest organised annually by a Japanese tea company.

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Freshly mown grass
clinging to my shoes
my muddled thoughts

Her poem – a non-traditional form that does not follow the classic five-seven-five syllable pattern – was entered into the competition organised by the multinational Ito En, first held in 1989. For the first 27 years the English-language section was won by Japanese people.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/01/british-schoolgirl-named-first-non-japanese-winner-of-haiku-contest?CMP=fb_gu
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Re: Winners

Postby Coligny » Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:54 am

Holy shit...
Misery sure do loves company...

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Re: Winners

Postby Wage Slave » Sat Sep 02, 2017 12:55 pm

No poetry in your soul?
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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Re: Winners

Postby Russell » Sat Sep 02, 2017 1:17 pm

Wage Slave wrote:No poetry in your soul?

Let me complete Coligny's haiku.

I am potato
There is only one of me
Unique potato
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Re: Winners

Postby Grumpy Gramps » Sat Sep 02, 2017 1:46 pm

Girls with muddled thoughts
should walk barefoot in the grass
potato in shoes
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Re: Winners

Postby wagyl » Sat Sep 02, 2017 3:42 pm

Pfft amateurs
We should do non-traditional....
Meaning not a haiku at all.

(although Grumpy's oeuvre does have a good tension, and nice reflective synthesis)
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Re: Winners

Postby Russell » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:02 pm

Grumpy Gramps wrote:Girls with muddled thoughts
should walk barefoot in the grass
potato in shoes

Let me correct that...

Girls with muddled thoughts
Should walk barefoot in the grass
Shit between their toes
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Re: Winners

Postby Coligny » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:32 pm

Russell wrote:
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Girls with muddled thoughts
should walk barefoot in the grass
potato in shoes

Let me correct that...

Girls with muddled thoughts
Should walk barefoot in the grass
Shit between their toes



Fooking dutchbag...

FG IS NOT YOUR PERSONNAL EROTIKA WABSITE...
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Re: Winners

Postby Coligny » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:33 pm

Wage Slave wrote:No poetry in your soul?



Wait ? There was poetry in this thread !?
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Re: Winners

Postby Wage Slave » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:46 pm

OK, something more robustly Anglo-Saxon then:

This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.
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Re: Winners

Postby Russell » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:48 pm

Coligny wrote:
Russell wrote:
Grumpy Gramps wrote:Girls with muddled thoughts
should walk barefoot in the grass
potato in shoes

Let me correct that...

Girls with muddled thoughts
Should walk barefoot in the grass
Shit between their toes



Fooking dutchbag...

FG IS NOT YOUR PERSONNAL EROTIKA WABSITE...

Just personal experience from when I was young and playing in those full-of-dog-shit lawns in the Netherlands...
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Re: Winners

Postby Yokohammer » Sat Sep 02, 2017 4:55 pm

Wage Slave wrote:OK, something more robustly Anglo-Saxon then:

This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Now that's real.

Love it.


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Re: Winners

Postby Takechanpoo » Sat Sep 02, 2017 6:53 pm

俳句,川柳,和歌,短歌....although japan seems to has a long tradition about those poetry things,
this kind of emotional sentences do not resonate in my heart at all and its even harsh to me, unfortunately.

and this topic never be worth to an independent thread while seems to be important for some literature brain fellows.
delete and move to random gaijin shot thread.
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Re: Winners

Postby Wage Slave » Sat Sep 02, 2017 7:20 pm

Fuck off. Who do you think you are? And who do you think cares about your pathetic opinions?

Enjoyed that. :lol:

And half cocked as per usual - the thread is not limited to this particular winner. A careful reading of the title will reveal it is in the plural.

carry on. :roll:
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Re: Winners

Postby Russell » Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:05 pm

Wage Slave wrote:Fuck off. Who do you think you are? And who do you think cares about your pathetic opinions?

Enjoyed that. :lol:

And half cocked as per usual - the thread is not limited to this particular winner. A careful reading of the title will reveal it is in the plural.

carry on. :roll:

What?!?

Takechan is not inspired by shit between his toes?
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Re: Winners

Postby Coligny » Sat Sep 02, 2017 9:22 pm

Russell wrote:[
What?!?

Takechan is not inspired by shit between his toes?



Please gods make it stop

Please gods make it stop

Please gods make it stop

Please gods make it stop
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