traveller
- just learned from a fellow blogger of this verse form:
Two by Four poem. It was invented in 1999 by Lee Ann Brown. It consists of 4 lines with 2 words per line. They may or may not rhyme. The subject emphasis is on whimsical, creative, or experimental use of language/word play.
Thought I give it a try.
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no home
a traveller
guest too
cherish life
The poet Basho lived his life as a pilgrimage. I found this notion in Robert Aitken’s book about Basho’s work and/as haiku as riddles. Personally, I find it interesting, without having an answer or needing to find one to a conundrum contained within: Aitken does not refer to a definition of pilgrimage. In the West, it seems clearly related to concepts of religion and the sacredness of places related to those. (Birth places of saints or apparitions or healing properties of a spring…) So – does Aitken, does Basho refer to the process of his life instead – or…?
In my chosen home country, England, by equal opps policies, I am seen as a non-ethnic traveller, by choice of my abode. That does not make me a poet though. 😉
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Solitary 4 Tomorrow - in Dialogue 
Hi Barbara, I like this one! I also like the form.
Mark S said this on January 27, 2022 at 12:31 |
thank you 🙂
Barbara S said this on January 27, 2022 at 12:35 |
Mark, will add a brief comment at the bottom – have another look if interested? 🙂
Barbara S said this on January 27, 2022 at 12:49 |
Hi Barbara, So is the question did Basho see everyday life as a pilgrimage. I find it interesting to be in a place mentally where you can find the sacred in the mundane. Or find the spiritual in the everyday. And then, be able to capture that essence in verse to share with others.
Mark S said this on January 27, 2022 at 17:50
thanks Mark; I like that and go along with that answer. I need to look up Aitken again when I get back home next month. I only have a vage memory of Aitken describing Basho’s complete transformation as deeper and more profound than I obviously was even able to retain.
Barbara S said this on January 27, 2022 at 17:57
I will look forward to the update!
Mark S said this on January 27, 2022 at 23:03
thanks Mark, me too. 🙂
Barbara S said this on January 28, 2022 at 07:44