Footnote: On Writing Haiku Or Tanka, 2

A planned garden shows

form, order and balance; a

weedpatch lacks these.

Both are full of life:  but which

displays more skilled artistry?


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The one you interrogate for

The one you interrogate for meaning ;) love it compact, concise and very full! Juxtaposition them bang× ! Challenge... I like the weeds they have struggled through such hatred and adversity... the difference between a flower and a weed is very often nothing but a judgement. 

 

 


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Thank you.  I agree that the

Thank you.  I agree that the difference between a flower and a weed is often a judgement; but is it, also, an aesthetic judgement.  And yes, real weeds do have to struggle against adversity.  But literary weeds are, possibly, something else altogether.


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