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Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,424 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Why does this remind me so much of my career in art?

    Why does this comment make me so sad? 😢 Was is hard to continue to find passion in making art when you counted on it to make a living, @AdahPotatah2024 ?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    Are you telling me you earned less than $1 per copy you sold, @nossmf ? How is that not considered outright robbery?!

    While I likely would have made more through a traditional publisher, isn't it far harder to turn a profit when self-publishing and accepting all the costs of production which come with? Isn't this why I'm hoping to get my second book published traditionally (and possibly get a re-release of my first book through the same medium)?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 1,979 Member
    Was is hard to continue to find passion in making art when you counted on it to make a living?

    Could I answer with a yes and a no since I was completely burnt out by portrait photography, while I continue to love painting? Do you think the Habitat for Humanity will ever start refusing my boxes of donated paintings!?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    Haiku Hijinks, anyone?

    Although I'm thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    what is the question?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    frankwbrown wrote: »
    Haiku Hijinks, anyone?

    Although I'm thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    what is the question?

    I sit here thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    but what's the question?

    Which is better, or are they equally bad?

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,230 Member
    You are so clever
    Writing such beautiful prose
    Can I join up too?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 1,979 Member
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    Are you not aware haiku strictly speaks about the number of syllables per line of the poem, without restricting/recommending the content of the poem?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    edited July 6
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?

    While they are often about nature, can't they be about anything?
    And isn't the requirement not that they rhyme, but that traditionally they be three lines consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables?
    Don't contemporary haiku often enough break even this rule regarding syllables?
    Can you imagine the fun I had in my first programming class, being given an assignment to write a program that generated haiku from several lists of words? 😂
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,230 Member
    Write about nature
    If you wish.Poets do. But
    Isn't that boring?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 1,979 Member
    Why,why haiku poets
    Do you not include rhyming?
    Frightened you'll go nuts? 🤪
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    Would thinking of rhymes
    with syllables on my mind
    put me in a bind? 🤪
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    edited July 7
    AdahPotatah,
    Why do you require rhyming?
    Why not let it go?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 1,979 Member
    edited July 8
    Mr. Nossmf,
    Is not this a rebellion
    Against poetry?

    Do these poetries
    Written in English sound worse
    Than in Japanese???
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    You know what sounds worse
    than a haiku in English?
    Why not binary?

    1 0 1 1
    0 0 0 1
    1 0 0?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 1,979 Member
    Would you mind translating that for us!?:)
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    Is it even possible to put into words the sheer emotions evoked by such numerically perfect prose?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    You know what sounds worse
    than a haiku in English?
    Why not binary?

    1 0 1 1
    0 0 0 1
    1 0 0?

    Binary haiku
    confounding the poet's muse
    why would you do that?

    Hexadecimal -
    comprehensible, maybe
    to a computer?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,940 Member
    Base 2, 10, 16
    Math: nature's preferred language
    Can humans translate?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 12,849 Member
    Oh Fibonacci,
    how did you stumble upon
    nature's innate math?

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