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Picture, if you can, in this elemental setting, a solitary child, so tiny, so distant against those rearing rocks, that you cannot certainly determine the child's gender. Not that that detail is of any consequence, what you see is an animated speck fearlessly approaching the edge of the ocean's ancient dream.
The child's brief and fugitive experience discovers what language has yet to teach. Nothing in the world of this tiny he or she is more than a moment old, yet that fragile moment can swallow this ancient world whole.
Rock has forgotten
time's beginning. Still busy,
the tide gnaws, the rock erodes.
The child's brief and fugitive experience discovers what language has yet to teach. Nothing in the world of this tiny he or she is more than a moment old, yet that fragile moment can swallow this ancient world whole.
Rock has forgotten
time's beginning. Still busy,
the tide gnaws, the rock erodes.
The form of this piece is a haibun, devised by Basho, the great originator in Japanese poetry, who created the Haiku.
Many of my watchers will be familiar with my love of this simple, epiphanal form. Yet its spareness and economy have a price.
The Haiku, you might say, can realise "the standpoint of eternity." For this Ying, Basho supplied his own Yang, preceding the epiphanal moment with a narrative in poetic prose, characterising the world within which the epiphany blooms.
The Haiku with which it ends was written a commentary on Red Cliff by *guille1701. I felt, though there was more to say, hence the haibun.
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I'm sorry, dA is not allowing me to upload Guille's picture as a preview image. I shall try again when its tantrum is over. In the meantime, I can only apologise, and ask you to follow the link.
25/03: The preview image issue is now resolved! I have refined the opening paragraph in response to helpful comments from :devcrimsonthenody:
Many of my watchers will be familiar with my love of this simple, epiphanal form. Yet its spareness and economy have a price.
The Haiku, you might say, can realise "the standpoint of eternity." For this Ying, Basho supplied his own Yang, preceding the epiphanal moment with a narrative in poetic prose, characterising the world within which the epiphany blooms.
The Haiku with which it ends was written a commentary on Red Cliff by *guille1701. I felt, though there was more to say, hence the haibun.
You can see the deviation at full size here:
[link]
I'm sorry, dA is not allowing me to upload Guille's picture as a preview image. I shall try again when its tantrum is over. In the meantime, I can only apologise, and ask you to follow the link.
25/03: The preview image issue is now resolved! I have refined the opening paragraph in response to helpful comments from :devcrimsonthenody:
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This is something I've never thought of before. 
I'm glad I get to see this.
I'm glad I get to see this.