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snowflakes falling upon snowflakes upon snowflakes…..
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Headlines:
“Record cold, early snow grip Prairies on Thanksgiving” (CBC News)
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Poem by Chen-ou Liu (see poet biographies). Read more by this poet.
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Tags: Alberta, America, Chen-ou Liu, Coldest Winter, Prairies, Snow, Snowflake Haiku, Snowflake Poem, Thanksgiving, Winter Haiku
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November 1st, 2009 at 6:20 am
I absolutely love this poem. So simple, so profound!
November 1st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Paul, thanks for your kind words. Much appreciated.
Chen-ou
November 1st, 2009 at 5:06 pm
I agree, this is stellar!
November 1st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Me three! This poem has it going on!!! Great work Chen-ou.
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:17 am
Laurence and Dick,
I try to employ an element of repetition in my haiku to see if it works well.
Many thanks for your encouraging comments.
Chen-ou
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:49 am
Repetition is also one of my favourite techniques in haiku. When used properly it has a wonderful effect (a kind of doubling up exponentially to create an endlessness, not unlike the Western concept of the “sublime”).
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Hi! Dick:
“Western concept of the ‘sublime’”
Kantian sublime? Kant identifies the sublime with a quantity, and that quantity is unlimited.
Chen-ou
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Yeah – that is what I was getting at – the repetition heads toward infinity and creates a sense of the unlimited (or endlessness). It does this by suggesting that the repetition goes on forever (unlimited repetition). Hence, I can read your poem as:
snowflakes
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
falling upon snowflakes
upon snowflakes…
(and so on – toward the limitless)
This is the way I see repetition working in haiku as a structure.
Any thoughts?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:08 am
Dick,
You grasped the complete meaning of my poem. You co-authored it.
Many thanks!
Chen-ou
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I dunno about co-authoring. I think I just drew out the implications of your poem that were there from the beginning. I also think it would have had this effect in three lines (as we published it) or in one line (as you originally submitted it). Great poem man. We look forward to seeing more.