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Guest star — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:59:59 -0500

cool mate..
i like your works as an artist :D

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marine — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:35:35 -0500

This is impressive for a 12 year old!

love the haiku

zman — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:34:03 -0600

great haiku.. the book is also we'll worth the read

Zombie Haiku

elliot — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:02:42 -0600

I noticed this Zombie Haiku book yesterday: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1600610706

Which reminded me of this zombie haiku I wrote when I was about 12 (27 years ago - ouch):

A noxious zombie
eats a mouldy, worm-filled leg
in a rancid cave.

Which isn't very good (though vivid enough for me to remember and obviously ahead of its time); and not strictly haiku (it has no "kireji", or its closest equivalent in English, i.e. "a dignified ending, concluding the verse with a heightened sense of closure" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kireji). So I rewrote it while in the bath last night (probably too much information there...):

An ashen zombie
gnaws a muddy, worm-filled leg:
tears run over bones.

Hopefully, this will enable you to see how much I've progressed as an artist.

Update: After having written this, I read this surprisingly relevant blog entry about how we see our artwork when we're young (by way of Rotating Corpse), how our perceptions of it change, and even how art comes to have value.