I have just created an index of all the links used in this linked haiku project:
http://cflat7.drivehq.com/vhs_daily_links.txt
This index along with the complete set of linked haiku (since 2006-Aug-11) will continue to be kept up-to-date here:
http://haikuworkshop.pbwiki.com/LinkedYear2006
About Masago
- Masago
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- From "The Haiku Anthology" I became interested in Haiku and I have since written numerous haiku, senyru, and tanka. "Masago", my haiku pen-name, means "grain(s) of sand" in Japanese. I have recently started learning Esperanto and Japanese. A few years ago I developed a new eastern verse form which we now call 'Renhai'.
My Blog List
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At the Café2 months ago
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I Can Almost Smell it1 year ago
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6 Hantu yang Muncul di Toilet10 years ago
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distant thunder11 years ago
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welcome spring14 years ago
7 comments:
It's good to be aware of the links, if you are not the writer, and not aware of it, it remains unobserved MY problem is ... the internet bill... my explorations of other blogs are limited. A have to read between the lines, most of the time!:)
Borut: I have been enjoying doing the links. It has added a new dimension to my haiku writing.
Once in awhile, if you are interested, you could download the archive and read the notes off-line:
http://cflat7.drivehq.com/vhs_daily.htm
I will. I have some difficulty keeping track of my own comments I left here and there, it's a problem. Considering my old-fashined body and mind and their use of new technology!:)
Vaughn, you ‘linking project’ reminds me, somehow, on this peaceful Sunday morning in March, of two great authors I used to read and tried to understand, with great difficulty, it’s true, but with considerable pleasure; of Plato and, more specifically, his great dialogue from his last, the logical phase, called The Sophist, where through the process of dividing ideas, separating the outward meanings of two ideas from their inner common denominator (a more general idea), one gets ever closer to the more abstract notions and finally arrives at Truth, the One and Only Idea written with the capital letter; and of Obaydah Maimonides of the famous Jewish family of philosophers of medieval Spain, and his little book called The Treatise of the Pool, in which he describes how scriptural passages (mostly no longer than a line – like haiku) should be understood, and how, once understood and digested, each such line can become a rung of sorts on the ladder leading down to the deep well of truth…
Why do I say this? I really don’t know Vaughn!?:)
Borut: I am honored that my meagre efforts remind you of these other great writers. I have not read much of Plato but that sounds interesting. As for Mamonides, I have been reading "A Guide to the Perplexed", perhaps written by another member of that family. What has led you to read Jewish works (as I believe you once mentioned you are not Jewish)?
There are a number of reasons, Vaughn. The most ludicrous among these is that I’m attracted to charismatic personalities (and their ideas), such as the late colonel Sir Richard Burton, a very controversial man. I don’t know whether he was serious or not, but I remember reading him where he said that, if he had a chance to be reborn and choose in which nation of the world to be born, he would like to be born as a Jew, following which he added in his characteristically elitist way (gaining him the reputation of a racially biased thinker), that he would certainly not like to be just any kind of Jew, but an Ashkenazi…!?:) Kidding!:) Seriously, I like to delve, rather superficially and eclectically, into the inner traditions of various cultures, including the Jewish. And, why not say it, I really love the combination of magic, mysticism and monotheism that come to my mind whenever I see a traditional Hassidic rabbi in his rather old-fashioned 18th century Eastern European look …!:)
Borut: Thank you for your further notes on this. I share somewhat your fascination in this area. Just this past Saturday I attended with a friend the Purim celebrations at an Ultra Orthodox Kollel. It felt like stepping back into the 18th century. It was really cool!
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