Distant hiss of surf Sighing from the moonlit beach - A lover's yearning.
Another "here's one I prepared earlier" haiku for you, to tide you over while I make yet another business trip.
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I'll assume you're not an EastEnders fan, but thought I'd tell you this anyway: last night, one of the characters in it (Gus, the street-sweeper/resident poet of 'Albert Square') read out a Haiku he had composed for his missing dog! (And yes, it was a Haiku...he used the word 'Haiku' (as well as it being obvious from the style of the words he read out)).
Having re-read it, on a more serious note, it evokes memories of Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu, watching the most amazing sunset ever. Sitting alone on the warm sand, I was very aware that all the other people around me were in twos...ah well, Norma-Nae-Mates indeed! ;o) Ali Bali Bee
A leading presenter on China Central Television's English-language channel has revealed himself to be a xenophobic hate-monger. WHY does he still have a job? Lobby for his dismissal - by any and all means.
Days Ai Weiwei was detained
80
With ironic, sinister symmetry, the celebrity artist/activist was incarcerated on the same day that my friend Wu Yuren was finally released from 10 months' detention.
Now, like Wu, he's been released on extremely restrictive 'bail' terms - but could face re-arrest at any moment. He was detained incommunicado from April 3rd to June 22nd 2011.
Days Wu Yuren was in prison
307
"Released on parole" after 10 months; "parole" lifted another year later. The original charges against him were apparently dropped without his trial ever being formally concluded.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
2 comments:
I'll assume you're not an EastEnders fan, but thought I'd tell you this anyway: last night, one of the characters in it (Gus, the street-sweeper/resident poet of 'Albert Square') read out a Haiku he had composed for his missing dog! (And yes, it was a Haiku...he used the word 'Haiku' (as well as it being obvious from the style of the words he read out)).
Laugh? I nearly paid my licence fee...
When you back in Blighty?
(Scottish Burd who forgets her password)
Having re-read it, on a more serious note, it evokes memories of Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Oahu, watching the most amazing sunset ever. Sitting alone on the warm sand, I was very aware that all the other people around me were in twos...ah well, Norma-Nae-Mates indeed! ;o)
Ali Bali Bee
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