Re: Poetry

From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 21:49:50 MDT

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On Saturday, October 06, 2001 2:44 PM I William Wiser will@wiserlife.com
wrote:
>> Not a great work of poetry, but I agree with the sentiment.
>
> Perhaps you prefer Hiku:

I do prefer _haiku_ and tanga too, but:

> Five Thousand more dead
> All of them children and good.
> The old man is angry

is not a formal haiku. The last line is six syllables!:)

Cheers!

Daniel Ust
    See my "The Many Births of Free Verse" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/FreeVers.html

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