Flameo, Hotman!

[starlady]

I just finished watching Avatar: The Last Airbender with unjapanologist. HOW SO AWESOME, SHOW!? I just want it to go on forever and ever and ever, amen. At least Legend of Korra comes out (sometime) next year… I will have more to say at some point.

On the walk back to the subway I made up a completely unrelated poem.

Kyoto at night
The wind rustles the rice fields
Between frogs and stars.

It's metrical if you pronounce the long vowel in 'Kyoto.'

Comments

[boundbooks]

Korra owns my heart and it hasn't even started yet. XD

[rodo]

I am not Basho
And neither are you, alas.
Yet we do our best.

... what? Your tag was inspiring.

[starlady]

Full marks for spontaneity! Mine took much longer than I'd like to admit. =)

[rodo]

But yours is atmospheric! Of course that takes time.

[starlady]

Not so much atmospheric as literal, really. I couldn't get the third line to work until I dropped the idea of an adjective modifying 'stars' and brought in the frogs, which resolved my dilemma over the location-word at the start of it too. The first line, as you see, I decided not to try to fix.

[rodo]

Well, atmosphere is atmospheric, isn't it? And in Japanese, you can leave on syllable away for emphasis or something. At least that's what I learned.

[starlady]

I think so? Definitely one extra syllable is an emphasis technique in all the metrical poetic forms I've studied. =)

[lnhammer]

Yeah, it's extra for emphasis.


Tumbling down the stairs
three children race for ice cream
and a thump in the end

---L.

[yeloson]

Avatar Yay! I have so few shows I get fannish about, but Avatar is it. I still need to get around to doing some rpg gaming around ATLA.

[starlady]

It's just so great! Seriously, it just keeps getting more and more awesome as it goes along. I cannot wait for Korra.

[holyschist]

Avatar is so great! It needs to be 2012 already.

[esmenet]

Avatar! My favorite USian TV show, for always. ♥ (Unless Korra turns out to be better.)

I spent an entirely unreasonable amount of time deciding which A:TLA icon to use on this comment. Clearly, I either have far too many A:TLA icons or not nearly enough.

[unjapanologist]

I'll be sending on more of the promised recs later, but the Jetko ones are somehow at the forefront of my mind right now. Float and Something to hold on to

[dotintheshark.livejournal.com]

I really like your haiku! The atmosphere is beautiful, and it evokes so many sensations. Thank you for sharing it!

[larryhammer]

Nice.

It's also metrical if you fail to slide into the -y- sound.

---L.