It made sense to me and gave me a laugh.
Edit: @Coemgenu
When the balloon popped
its contents became the world,
encircling all.
It strikes me that that last New Year’s haiku is only a haiku if you have a Canadian or Northern US accent maybe, where “encircling” is four syllables, the “l,” with a preceding schwa, forming its own syllabic nucleus, or “ɪnˈsɜrkəlɪŋ,” as one might be tempted to spell in IPA, the International Phonetic Alphabet.
In some accents, “encircling” is three syllables, “ɪnˈsɜrklɪŋ.” Sometimes the diversity of nuances of language, even something mundane as regional accent, strikes you and you are just left to wonder at what you don’t regularly consider.
My ignorance must
shock those versed in EBTs.
I apologise.
Very Clever Haiku
Mastery is mine
Just buy my snake-oil guidance
Awake - guaranteed!
I’m copying this back over here, to make sure no haiku-lover misses it.
Of course the associated non-haikus were pretty cool too:
@karl_lew I have a Mara-inspired urge to edit you last line, tho if ‘twit’ is pronounced in you dialect with 2 syllables ‘t-wit’ I’m completely out of court and apologise immediately.
This nonsensical verse,
dare I disperse?
Or abide with mute wit,
and still be a twit.
Of course
MN96:8.3: …They refrain from using speech that’s false, divisive, harsh, or nonsensical…
And now - for one time only - I can like my own post: on the ground that its substantive content is all quoted from others.
Long live mischievous moods!
And I, stilled, will still be a twit.
A mod in a mood
Should be avoided at all
Costs. Take cover Karl!
Forcing stillness and
philosophy as a brand.
Alas, the ethics?
Too much syncretism. It’s really sucks…
Say it in a haiku
with much metta
and of you?
Should you haiku too?
Mindfulness for sale;
Cultural imperials
“We’ll do it better!”
Brahmins all the time…
Grateful to the Perfected
who revealed the Path.
Every spring, flowers
and weeds. Many life forms feed
on the best they find.