Friday, February 23, 2007

Prompt 13

The reason Nobody can be no body and no thing at the same time might be contirbuted to a state of life. Someone who is dead will not have a body, and will be no thing, just a figment long past. The term could mean that the writer is dead and no longer exists, or that he is just a wanderer, a man of no name and no home. The double meaning of the boys hand turning white and the falling snow is death. Cold means death while warmth means life. The skin pales and loses pigmentation in death, just as the snow and cold kill nature. These Haiku represent the core values of Japanese Aesthetics by showing naturalness in the words, opening to take one moment of time and describing it in very few words. It shows Perishability because they know the seasons and how they end and give life, and finally the haiku show sensitivity with the compassion they show to the value of life.

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