Posts filed under “Poetry”

A MINOR ADJUSTMENT TO HAIKU.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 15, 2023. 2 comments.

Update: Here is the future article in which we discuss the mystery of Gilbert’s limerick in blank verse.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Royal HH, the ugliest typewriter in the world.

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A HAIKU VALENTINE.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 14, 2023. One comment.

Red hearts, red roses
and candies in a red box?
No, I get haiku.

SPECIFICATIONS FOR OUR HAIKU CONTRACTOR.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 13, 2023. 2 comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Smith-Corona Sterling.

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ANOTHER POSSIBILITY FOR HAIKU FORM.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 12, 2023. 2 comments.

Transcribed below. The typewriter is a Royal Quiet De Luxe with Elite type and a purple ribbon.

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CAN WE RESCUE THE HAIKU FORM?

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 11, 2023. 2 comments.

Transcribed below for your Unicode pleasure. The typewriter is the Woodstock again, the one that was rescued from the head offices of the old G. C. Murphy five-and-dime chain.

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ASK DR. BOLI.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 10, 2023. 3 comments.

Transcribed below in machine-readable form—or rather, we should say, in a form readable by more primitive machines than the ones Google employs. The typewriter is a Remington Quiet-Riter.

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HAIKU IN COMMON METER.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 9, 2023. One comment.

Transcribed below for searching, quoting, or anything else you can think of to do with about five hundred words. The typewriter is a Woodstock, which is Dr. Boli’s preferred machine for his un-American activities.

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HAIKU EQUIVALENTS IN ENGLISH, CONTINUED.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 8, 2023. 2 comments.

Transcribed below for searching, etc. The typewriter is a Royal HH.

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THE HAIKU AND THE EPIGRAM.

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 7, 2023. One comment.

Once again the text (written on an Olivetti Valentine) is transcribed below for your electronic convenience.

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IS HAIKU IN ENGLISH A LOST CAUSE?

Posted by Dr. Boli on February 6, 2023. No comments.

Once again the text is transcribed below for searching, screen readers, and so on. It is astonishing to note that Google’s OCR can now transcribe this script type from Dr. Boli’s Hermes 3000 with no errors, except for one that is a borderline case: it mistook the opening parenthesis in the sixth paragraph for a T, and since the word above it is underlined, it does rather look like the T in this script face (compare “Tokyo” on the line below).

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