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Thursday, 18 October 2007

i-ku by Zephirine


12 comments:

file said...

I really like this one Zeph, even memory is dynamic, rippling...

Anonymous said...

Not just the words, but the colours here, remind me of lunchtime in Victorian cemeteries. Stone Angels, Wings and Peace.

guitougoal said...

it's beautiful, and the willow trees....quelle merveille!

offsideintahiti said...

You allright Zeph? Drink?

Zephirine said...

Fine thanks Offie, I didn't go to the canal to jump in :)

Any funereal overtones are purely accidental.

tony said...

Zeph - if you had jumped in, it would have been, I'm sure, a purely poetic decision. I felt like jumping into your i-ku myself.

Zephirine said...

And I took the photo, so I can tell you it's the Hertford Union Canal alongside Victoria Park, Tony, you've probably been there in your youth.

guitougoal said...

never jumped in an i-ku before tony? all you need it's a mask and a tubaaa.....and then swim between 5 and 7 syllabes to avoid the wordstream.

tony said...

'In my youth'? What are you implying, you young whippersnapper?

guitou, now you've got me on watery wonderings..

five seven and five
binding me to tide tables;
surfing the wave's crest.

File - if you can put that on a wave, it's my new i-ku.

Zephirine said...

Tony, correction: in your early childhood:)

strictly speaking that's not an i-ku, doesn't contain the word I, you see; File will have to decide if it counts, the syllable rule has already been waived for certain people...

or waved...

Anonymous said...

If it's online, it's an e-ku anyway. Next series, maybe.

guitougoal said...

Zeph,
"certain people".....or certain people's pet?