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Reading and Writing: Life on the Page


Drinking Alone by Moonlight


full moon –
to my two companions
I drink a full cup


Note:

Drinking Alone by Moonlight is written in response to the challenge based on the following claim made by Cor van den Heuvel, who is a haiku poet and veteran editor of numerous anthologies of haiku:

“If a haiku is a good one, it doesn’t matter if the subject has been used before. The writing of variations on certain subjects in haiku, sometimes using the same or similar phrases (or even changing a few words of a previous haiku), is one of the most interesting challenge the genre offers a poet and can result in refreshingly different ways of ‘seeing anew’ for the reader. This is an aspect of traditional Japanese haiku which is hard for many Westerns, with their ideas of uniqueness and Romantic individualism, to accept. But some of the most original voices in haiku do not hesitate to dare seeming derivative if they see a way of reworking an ‘old image.’”

-- The opening paragraph of ‘A Note on the Selection and Layout of the Poems’ to The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel


It is also written to pay homage to Li Bai, whose name was traditionally pronounced Li Bo or Li Po (depending on the Romanization) and who was part of the group called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup." Li Bai is called the Poet Immortal and often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

Reading and Writing: Life on the Page


Drinking Alone by Moonlight


full moon –
to my two companions
I drink a full cup


Note:

Drinking Alone by Moonlight is written in response to the challenge based on the following claim made by Cor van den Heuvel, who is a haiku poet and veteran editor of numerous anthologies of haiku:

“If a haiku is a good one, it doesn’t matter if the subject has been used before. The writing of variations on certain subjects in haiku, sometimes using the same or similar phrases (or even changing a few words of a previous haiku), is one of the most interesting challenge the genre offers a poet and can result in refreshingly different ways of ‘seeing anew’ for the reader. This is an aspect of traditional Japanese haiku which is hard for many Westerns, with their ideas of uniqueness and Romantic individualism, to accept. But some of the most original voices in haiku do not hesitate to dare seeming derivative if they see a way of reworking an ‘old image.’”

-- The opening paragraph of ‘A Note on the Selection and Layout of the Poems’ to The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor van den Heuvel


It is also written to pay homage to Li Bai, whose name was traditionally pronounced Li Bo or Li Po (depending on the Romanization) and who was part of the group called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup." Li Bai is called the Poet Immortal and often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

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I've revised my poem and added a note to it.
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I've revised my poem and added a note to it.
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

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Below are replies from my poet friends at another forum:

I am breathless. Moon, slave (shadow), and poet, drinking could never have more competent companions.

-- Sergio Ortiz

I really like this a lot.

I think it's beautiful, and even if the subject has been used before, you made it your own.

-- Brianna

An alpha-plus ku.

The very stuff classics are made of.

-- Jane Røken
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul

[[ericcoliu]]

Below are replies from my poet friends at another forum:

I am breathless. Moon, slave (shadow), and poet, drinking could never have more competent companions.

-- Sergio Ortiz

I really like this a lot.

I think it's beautiful, and even if the subject has been used before, you made it your own.

-- Brianna

An alpha-plus ku.

The very stuff classics are made of.

-- Jane Røken
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Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul