Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Six Haiku Madlibs

In the dense mouth

these tepid lights – 

an artificial dust

– Lee Nao Doh and Basho


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No one bulge

along this mouth but I,

this dense light.

– Lee Nao Doh and Basho


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A dense tepid mouth...

A light bulge into the dust,

bellyache! Daffodil again.

– Lee Nao Doh and Basho


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Dense mouth,

the light

is tepid of dust.

– Lee Nao Doh and Buson


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Don't bulge, mouth

light, dust themselves,

must nip.

– Lee Nao Doh and Issa


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Bulge me,

as one who nips mouth

and light.

– Lee Nao Doh and Shiki


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Note
Once again I felt the urge to test the poetic vein of an artificial intelligence (even though of an apparently very lowly kind) in creating haiku out of a list of words I, Lee Nao Doh, had defined. The AI then mixed this input with haiku from the masters: Basho, Buson, Issa and Shiki. Rendering poetry that is partially reminiscent of slightly surreal Chinese proverbs or fortune cookie stuff.

Feel like doing the same? Click here.

An earlier attempt, from which I picked three haiku.

Yours,

Leonard B., aka Lee Nao Doh

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The End Of The Rainbow - Richard & Linda Thompson


Richard and Linda Thompson, The End of the Rainbow

Written by Richard Thompson, released on I want to see the bright lights tonight in 1974.

A great song and one of my favorites, but also the mother of pessimist songs, containing upbeat lines like this:

There's nothing at the end of the rainbow.There's nothing to grow up for anymoreTycoons and barrow boys will rob youAnd throw you on the side