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According to the British haiku society, an organisation whose website appears to indicate that their only association with the word 'joy' is that it is one syllable, a haiku 'should derive from spontaneous, concrete, personal experience in a certain moment of heightened awareness'. In that sense, the following certainly qualifies...

Holy fuck!
Through the train window
The Eiger's north face.



Eiger north face


Actually, I think I said 'Fucking hell!', and I can't be bothered to find the volume of my diary to check if I ever wrote it down, but 'Holy fuck! scans better. It is in any case one of the most extraordinary sights in nature that I have ever seen. It bursts out of the scenery in a way that the above pic, which I have not managed to re-size, bursts out of the flist.

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Date: 2020-10-10 11:16 am (UTC)
moon_custafer: neon cat mask (book asylum)
From: [personal profile] moon_custafer
I don’t know about the BHS, but I believe Mssrs. Basho and Issa would approve.

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Date: 2020-10-10 10:15 pm (UTC)
moon_custafer: bookshelf labelled 'Poetry & True Crime' (poetrycrime)
From: [personal profile] moon_custafer
I always liked:

You stupid scarecrow!
Under your very stick-feet
Birds are stealing beans.

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Date: 2020-10-10 03:25 pm (UTC)
pensnest: bright-eyed baby me (DO AS I TELL YOU)
From: [personal profile] pensnest
A magnificent sight in a photo, must be stupendous in reality.

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Date: 2020-10-10 09:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] azdak
Oh, I thought you were sitting on a Swiss train even as you posted, taking amazing photos and composing swift haikus. It does make more sense that it was composed in retrospect, though, and it really does capture the experience.

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Date: 2020-10-10 05:46 pm (UTC)
highlyeccentric: Sign on Little Queen St - One Way both directions (Default)
From: [personal profile] highlyeccentric
WOW

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Date: 2020-10-11 08:11 am (UTC)
highlyeccentric: Sign on Little Queen St - One Way both directions (Default)
From: [personal profile] highlyeccentric
oh I know, although I haven't seen it this close up (my best view of it is from Schnigge Platte). What train was this from?

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