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Posted By : RHFay - 4/15/2008 10:49 AM
eager young scholar
proudly defends a falsehood-
educated fool

***

The creative process can be an amazing thing. Creativity can take a scrap of a detail from personal experience and elaborate upon it, twist it around, reshape it, and develop a whole idea or concept from that small tidbit. This has happened before with some of my speculative works, and this is how this one formed as well. In other words, it was inspired by real events, but not based directly upon them. I hope that makes sense.

I think there's a message somewhere in this one. Perhaps its a twist on the old saying "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". It's also supposed to speak of the apparent wisdom of experience, although I'm well aware that experience and age alone don't necessarily make you wise. My parents are perfect examples of how age doesn't always make you wiser. A rock doesn't learn, it just exists.

Anyway, this probably isn't really a haiku because of the subject matter. So, what would it be called? Is it a senyru? Senyru are haiku-like poems, often humourous, about human nature. I guess it could be a senyru, but more of an ironic one than a humourous one. Maybe it still falls short of the spirit of either, and is just a small poem.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions 

Posted By : Hermit - 4/15/2008 11:18 AM

How about "axioku"? Haiku and axiom hybrid.

It's very interesting - your poem. I've been in both sets of shoes. The eager twit with a mouthful of quotidian blunder; and the quiet scholar who has realized what he intellectually knew listening to someone who has the thought roiling through his mind like a handful of bait-worms and spitting out idiotic suppositions based on something he understands intellectually but of which he has nearly no comprehension.

Wow. That was a mouthful.

Have a day worth having smilewinkgrin

Thanks for posting!

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Posted By : RHFay - 4/15/2008 11:30 AM
MysticWino said...

 I've been in both sets of shoes...

Me too! ;-)
 
I think the message is really for everyone, young and old.  I think knowledge and intelligence must be tempered with wisdom.

"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!" 
 
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions 
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