Friday 16 January 2009

The Haiku of Friedrich Nietzsche

Using template haiku, I've started creating the haiku of Nietzsche from his philosophies in 'Beyond Good and Evil'. I chose Nietzsche because, while some of his maxims are short, the kind of ideas involved would not lend themselves easily to haiku or senryu. While the results aren't strict haiku or senryu, they're getting there.

91
a bad spectator of life

again and again

101
in love woman is

conundrum

131
good
knowledge' actually
arouses

115
impression
into words
of the senses

(The title, or numbers, of the poems indicate the page number they were found on, rather than the order they were written in (this order was decided by flipping to any page.))

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