On Apr 13, 7:59=A0pm, mike weber <fair****t...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:17:16 GMT, "Karl Johanson"
>
> <karljohan...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >"Harry Mary Andruschak" <adoptsoldc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
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> >> Haikus are easy
> >> But sometimes they don't make sense
> >> Refrigerator.
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> >There's a poetic form called haiku
> >That's done in Japan and Thai to
> >they work out just fine
> >even though they don't rhyme
> >Some like them but others cry poo
>
> Getting sort of serious - the song "Ripple"[1] has a haiku - or damned
> near - for a chorus.
>
> [1] Which i'm not sure if the Dead recorded first, but their version
> os the best-known, i think; Jimmie Dale Gilmore did a lovely version,
> too...
Robert Hunter wrote most of it, certainly almost all the lyrics. Jerry
Garcia was involved also. I haven't heard Gilmore's version but I look
forward to seeking it out. It is one of the few Dead songs where the
recorded version is probably better than any live version. Certainly,
I never heard them equal the version on American Beauty live. Without
David Grisman's mandolin, the song is still beautiful and haunting but
not quite as good.
The "haiku":
Ripple in still water,
When there is no pebble tossed,
Nor wind to blow.
isn't quite a haiku but it's lovely.
--
Will in New Haven
"There is a road, no simple highway
Between the dawn and the dark of night
And when you go no one may follow
That path is for your steps alone." Robert Hunter - "Ripple" - The
Greatful Dead
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