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practicality ([personal profile] practicality) wrote2011-09-04 01:51 am
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[The writing is a touch more... calligraphic than Souji's usual. But poetry demands it, even if it's not his own. And even if it's awful.]

Of the seven spring herbs
five I have
put to memory.
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[identity profile] azhdarchidae.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh?

[She's never heard of haiku.]

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's a kind of poetry.

Usually they're better than that one, though. Like-

old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound

[identity profile] azhdarchidae.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Poetry that doesn't rhyme? Huh.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
It's about rhthym, I think. Though I don't know how well it translates.

[identity profile] azhdarchidae.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I guess. Seems weird, that's all.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
What should poetry be like, to you?

[identity profile] azhdarchidae.livejournal.com 2011-09-06 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you know. Roses are red, violets are blue

[Crap. She can't remember the way that one ends. Quick, come up with something!]

you look like a monkey, and smell like one too.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-06 01:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a few splatters of ink - someone was laughing while holding his brush]

It's not very poetic, but it's funny!

[identity profile] azhdarchidae.livejournal.com 2011-09-07 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
That's like, joke poetry. Song lyrics, they're usually poetry too.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-07 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. I'm more used to songs that tell stories, if they have words at all. Though I guess those areb sort of poetic too.

[identity profile] notpissedoff.livejournal.com 2011-09-04 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this what I think it is?

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
Because they're funny!

[WHY ELSE]

relevant keywords ftw

[identity profile] notpissedoff.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
They could also be private.

[Hi Souji he's here to spoil all your fun.]

pfff

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[You say that like you think Souji cares]

Nobody from home is here but you and me~

[identity profile] notpissedoff.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
...That's beside the point.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
Well, whoever wrote it can't be here! So they won't mind.

[identity profile] notpissedoff.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
I meant they could be private for a reason.

[pause]

Aside from how bad they are.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Considers this for a moment.... nah.]

No, I just they're they're bad.

[identity profile] notpissedoff.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Too late anyway, other people have seen it. He'll still ink out the first line of his previous comment now, though.]

I hope you're right.

[identity profile] feathered-earth.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
Is this a poem?

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
It is!

Not a very good one, though, ne?

[identity profile] feathered-earth.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
If you say so. I don't know very much about poetry.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Well. I don't think memorizing seven herbs should be that hard!

Or there's this one-

Though there be but one
A plum blossom will aways
Be a plum blossom

[identity profile] longnosedliar.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[..............................................]

I don't get it.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
I don't either! Whoever wrote it must have had a really bad memory though.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-05 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No, I found it on the fourth floor.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-08 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
You think so? The meaning seems a bit silly to me.

[identity profile] desertshadows.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 10:51 am (UTC)(link)
I do wonder why the writer hasn't put the other two to memory yet! But it is nice in itself.

[identity profile] coughcoughshank.livejournal.com 2011-09-10 08:38 pm (UTC)(link)
He must have kind of a bad memory, I guess.

[identity profile] desertshadows.livejournal.com 2011-09-11 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose he'd just have to work the harder to remember, then!
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