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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.
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