Haiku

[osprey_archer]

To facilitate things for anyone who expressed an interested in joining the Poetry Crusade of Awesome (a.k.a. posting poetry in public spaces), and also because these haiku are so beautiful that I had to share:

Great Books in Haiku
From David M. Bader’s Haiku U

"What have I become?"
Uncertain, Gregor Samsa
put out some feelers.


Grim, gray New England
all adulterers receive
free monogramming.


Sing, Goddess, of how
brooding Achilles’ mood swings
caused him to act out.



Via entwashian: Star Wars, as told by someone who's never seen it. HILARIOUS.

Via silksieve: Strange Maps. It is AN ENTIRE BLOG OF STRANGE MAPS.

A few of my favorites from there: The Atlas of True Names, which sounds like it should be useful for casting spells, but is in fact a map of Great Britain - sorry, I mean Great Land of the Tattooed - with everything labeled with the original meaning of the name.

The Semicolonial State of San Seriffe, about an island that doesn't exist. I so want to set a story there now, for my collection of "Stories about Places that Could Almost Have Existed." I suspect there would be copyright issues.

Elleore, a Kingdom 12 Minutes Ahead of Copenhagen". another one for the story collection, except it actually exists so there wouldn't be any copyright issues.

But really the whole site is fabulous.

Comments

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

That state mottoes map is really eye-catching.

The Atlas of True Names is awesome. I want to go to Mount Malicious!

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Who doesn't want to go to Mount Malicious? I mean, really. It's an epic name!

[entwashian.livejournal.com]

It is! I bet if Frodo had known about it, Lord of the Rings would've been a much shorter book.

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

I love the maps! Thank you.

(Mount Malicious is Ben Nevis, which is far less impressive.)

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Ben Nevis is cool in its own right, but compared to Mount Malicious...they should have left it as Mount Malicious.

I bet the local kids would have had a field day trotting up its slopes to throw away evil rings. It's almost like Mount Doom, after all...

[girl-called-sun.livejournal.com]

I can just imagine Glaswegian school children trudging up the slope, getting into fights with hobbits, arguing they want to go home.

Maybe I could put little maps in public places, as well as poetry, to inspire people to visit odd, out of the way places.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

You could!

It might be good to accompany the maps with photos, though, so they know why they ought to visit. As awesome as a name like Mount Malicious is, I think scenic views are more inspiring than maps.

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

that map blog is really, really amazing. definitely a good time-waster. ; )

and i love the haikus! especially the scarlet letter one, though.

[osprey-archer.livejournal.com]

Re: the Scarlet Letter - monogramming. How do he ever come up with such an awesome description?

[visualthinker11.livejournal.com]

no idea. ; )