haiku...let's experiment?

[Gael Bage]

Following Don's question about haiku and truth I thought it might be interesting to experiment with something to stimulate imagination and our subconcious, things can lie buried there just waitng to surface, sometimes things we hide even from ourselves....
also I wonder if this might spawn some surreal ku... I don't think I ever wrote one but it would be interesting to see what they look like...
  Fractal art galleries abound on the internet, here are a couple of links to start you off, i have used similar galleries before to stimulate ideas for other poetry but not for haiku.
Please post a link to the fractal art with your ku. Have fun everyone

http://www.fractaldaydreams.com/ 

http://www.aartika.co.uk/galleries/index.php

[AlanSummers]

Funnily enough I worked with a friend in Liverpool on the idea of combining fractal images with words etc...  We just needed half a million quid for the prototype equipment and helmet to project them around the city. Coca Cola didn't leap at the opportunity, and Jarre had already done light displays in general. ;-)

Anyhow, I have two haiku published in Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society journal) surreal edition:


vodka chilli cocktail
I become a corner
in the edge of a room


Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit surreal haiku edition Vol. 13 No. 1 (2003)



downtown
the window mist invades
my parking space


Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit surreal haiku edition Vol. 13 No. 1 (2003)


Will look forward to surreal haiku, or surrealist haiku or haiga, or flash etc...

Alan

[Gael Bage]

unbridled
fire rose within
war and peace


http://www.fractaldaydreams.com/uf/fire_%20rose.jpg

[colin stewart jones]

dunno about the fractal artwork

but here are some surrealish ones


varicose sky
now for another
glass of shiraz


(paper wasp a couple of years ago)




empty bottle
was it you
you little worm

(a seal snorts out the moon, 2007)

col :)

[Edward Zuk]

I find it interesting that, right now, experimentalism seems to mean surrealism for a lot of poets.  It can mean much more, not that surrealism is a bad path to take (though, speaking for myself, I have found little surrealism that I like).

Two years ago I tried writing some haiku on the raven that would force me to do new things in my poems.  It was important for me to experiment with (1) metaphors and similes; (2) mythology; (3) breaks in unusual places, not just at the end of the first or second line; (4) literary allusions; and (5) political themes.  After a burst of a few weeks of writing a number of unsuccessful poems, I gave up on the raven.  I did find myself able to write on a wider range of subjects in a freer style, though, and several of the subsequent poems made their way into journals:

    Holding the sky
on its extended wings—
    the blue heron

(Frogpond - the allusion is to the end of Wallace Stevens's "Sunday Morning")

Once again Canada is passed over the Nobel Prize in literature:

      Flaring its red
against a cold, white sky—
     the dwarf maple

(Modern Haiku)

[Gael Bage]

i like those Edward, manta rays do that in the water, they are so graceful...
it seems the borders for experimenting are really quite fine... and dependent on our individual approach to life

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/fantasy-and-rea.html

Most individuals seem to systematically prefer standpoint-consistent information to standpoint-inconsistent information, here this poses a problem to some if read, though seems to make sense if spoken...

chilly day
I pick another
for the soup

[chibi575]

e.xp.onen.tially.fibonacci!

[Lorin]

"Most individuals seem to systematically prefer standpoint-consistent information to standpoint-inconsistent information, here this poses a prbblem to some if read, though seems to make sense if spoken..."

chilly day
I pick another
for the soup

The problem is that 'chilli' and 'chilly' (and Chile) are homophones, so the switch in understanding that takes place when this is heard (and which the piece entirely relies on) doesn't quite work as a written piece.

If you chose a homophone which has the same spelling in both cases, such a piece might work better.

- Lorin