Is there a fixed rule in modern haiku forbidding the imperative mood,
and another rule that demands the eternal present tense using only the
indicative mood?
Hugh Bygott
No.
Earl (Glad I could help.)
I marvel at how you start a fire
and then run, shouting--fire!
Your theories are marionettes strung with
you own intentions. Wittingly or unwittingly
your translations are warped to fit your own
philosophy (As exampled in the fly swatter
haiku). If observations are theory laden --
and I don't think anyone would argue the
point, even those you disparage-- then
your eyelids must be too heavy to see anything at all.
I think you might be the anti-poet.
I am so astonished at your inability to understand shasei theory, that
I doubt
you are serious. And I don't give a wit for the poet's
intentions, only the impact of the work. No matter how
much in error the thought, the final proof is in the work.
If you repeat something often enough you and the simple minded
might believe it, but I'm going to count some teeth.
connecting flight--
my only luggage
an empty stomach
Earl