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Culture Magazine - HAIKU
This is a group on facebook to share haiku with a cultural keyword.
Matsuo Basho inspired this group
through the many cultural words he used in his poems.
. Matsuo Basho 松尾芭蕉 - Archives of the WKD .
. WKD : Topics and Keywords for Haiku .
. MORE Place Names of the World - shared on facebook .
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. Assumption day of Mary .
. Barnabas Gospel, Turkey .
. Bechamel, béchamel sauce .
. Bloodroot flowers, Sanguinaria canadensis .
. Blues - Nuit bleue (Blue night) music .
. Cassoulet - slow-cooked casserole . France
. Comet Panstars .
. Fishery, fisheries for fishing .
. Flamenco .
Guardians of the Night- Iroquois emblem
. Golem - and Prague .
. Hallelujah songs - Canticle of the Sun .
. Hurling - game of ancient Gaelic origin, .
. Lakota Sioux Dancers - The Black Hills & Badlands .
. Monday's Child .
. Moon pie and Royal Crown Cola .
. "Morning Glory" cloud formation .
. Nem saussage from Vietnam . - and nuoc-mâm sauce
. Notre-Dame University .
. Pagoda .
. Pithecanthropus erectus - Java Man .
. Pope Francis I .
elected on 13 March 2013.
. sea-buckthorn "amber" . Hippophae rhamnoides
. Sunstone and the Vikings .
. tomatillo (Physalis philadelphica) from Mexico .
. Turquoise stone .
. Visual Pollution - pylons .
. Yggdrasill, ygdrasil - Norse mythological tree, .
. Zuni rain prayer and frog, North America .
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Aesop fables, Greece - (Fox and sour grapes)
Café de Flore, Paris, France
Demosthenes, Greece
Dreamland Beach, Bali
Hawaii Discovery
Hyperborea
Ley line, geological formations
Mexico City
Native American Women Warriors
Pandora and her box, Greece
Parents' day (Elternsprechtag)
Port-Louis (Breton: Porzh-Loeiz)
Tap Dance
Tu Bishvat (Jewish Holiday)
Wind River Dancers of Wyoming
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Aesop fables
Our online collection of Aesop's Fables includes a total of 655+ Fables, indexed in table format, with morals listed. There are many more on the way. Most were translated into English by Rev. George Fyler Townsend (1814-1900) and Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) the rest are from Jean De La Fontaine in French and translated to English by several good internet souls.
source : www.aesopfables.com/
Illustration - Milo Winter (1888 - 1956)
table for one -
she takes the order
sour grapes
- Shared by Jimmy ThePeach -
Haiku Culture Magazine, 2013
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Café de Flore, Paris, France
The Café de Flore, at the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain and Rue St. Benoit, in the 6th arrondissement, is one of the oldest and the most prestigious coffeehouses in Paris, celebrated for its famous clientele.
The classic Art Deco interior of all red seating, mahogany and mirrors has changed little since World War II. Like its main rival, Les Deux Magots, it has hosted most of the French intellectuals during the post-war years.
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"Café de Flore"-
poètes et amants
échangent leurs soupirs.
"Café de Flore"-
poets and lovers
exchange their sighs.
Patrick Fetu
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Demosthenes
(384–322 BC)
was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by studying the speeches of previous great orators. He delivered his first judicial speeches at the age of 20, in which he argued effectively to gain from his guardians what was left of his inheritance.
For a time, Demosthenes made his living as a professional speech-writer (logographer) and a lawyer, writing speeches for use in private legal suits.
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Granules d'arnica
sous la langue
... je pense à Démosthène !
Arnica granules
under the tongue
... I am thinking of Demosthenes !
Patrick Fetu
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Dreamland Beach, Bali
Dreamland Beach (now known as New Kuta Beach)
is a beach located on the Bukit peninsula, on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The beach provides basic accommodation and cafes for surfers and day-trippers. It is also renowned for its dangerous shorebreak.
Dreamland Beach is the site of the failed Pecatu Graha development, planned by Tommy Suharto, the youngest son of the former president Suharto.
As of 2008 this is an active building site with all the previous Warongs having been levelled for a hotel complex.
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Dreamland
the brochure says
lost luggage
Jimmy ThePeach
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Hawaii Discovery
Stone Age GPS and the Discovery of Hawaii
Birds:
Migrating birds probably revealed that northern exploration might be worthwhile. The Bristle-thighed Curlew and the Pacific Golden Plover fly north from the South Pacific every year, suggesting land beyond the northern horizon. (And in fact both stop in Hawaii on their way to Alaska.)
And birds probably served as radar once a voyage of discovery had begun. Shorebirds fly away from land in the morning and back in the afternoon, so sightings suggest the direction of land less than a day’s flight away. It’s even likely the explorers brought shorebirds with them and set them loose now and again.
Like Noah’s dove, a bird that had found land nearby would not return.
source : pintsofhistory.com
cloudy blue sky
northern winds
journey to emptiness
Pat Geyer
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Hyperborea
In Greek mythology the Hyperboreans (Latin: Hyperborei)
were a mythical people who lived far to the north of Thrace. The Greeks thought that Boreas, the North Wind, lived in Thrace, and that therefore Hyperborea was an unspecified region in the northern lands that lay beyond the north wind. Their land, called Hyperborea or Hyperboria – "beyond the Boreas" – was perfect, with the sun shining twenty-four hours a day, which to modern ears suggests a possible location within the Arctic Circle.
Never the Muse is absent
from their ways: lyres clash and flutes cry
and everywhere maiden choruses whirling.
Neither disease nor bitter old age is mixed
in their sacred blood; far from labor and battle they live.
The Hyperboreans were believed to live beyond the snowy Riphean Mountains which Homer first referenced in his Iliad.
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international holiday of ice sculptures
in Petrozavodsk (Russia,Karelia 2013 )
Hyperborea -
winter holiday
of ice sculptures
Gennady Nov
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Ley line, geological formations
Ley lines are alleged alignments of a number of places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. He sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia.
In 1969 the writer John Michell revived the term "ley lines", associating it with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of land forms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of ley lines existed across Britain.
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fresh snow -
the pecking of footprints
forms ley lines
Elaine Andre
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Mexico City
is the Federal District (Distrito Federal), capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. Mexico City is the country's largest city as well as its most important political, cultural, educational and financial center.
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"Bésame Mucho" is a Spanish-language song written in 1940 by Mexican songwriter Consuelo Velázquez.
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Mexico -City...
vagrant orchestra in an arbor
sings "Besame Mucho"
Gennady Nov
Sketches of Mexico
Marian Olson
- source : www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond
. WKD : more about Mexico .
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Native American Women Warriors
Native American Women Warriors bring their story to Obama’s inaugural parade
Watch carefully during President Obama’s second inaugural parade Monday, Jan. 21, and you will see among the marching bands and the civic organizations a small group of women wearing bright dresses embroidered with the beading of their tribes and the insignia of their service. They are the Native American Women Warriors (NAWW), and they’re recognized as the country’s first all-female, all-Native American color guard.
source : publicinsightnetwork.org
badges and beads
and an eagle's wing -
warrior women
Elaine Andre
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Pandora and her box, Greece
In Greek mythology, Pandora (Greek, Πανδώρα, derived from πᾶς "all" and δῶρον "gift", thus "all-gifted" or "all-giving") was the first woman.
As Hesiod related it, each god helped create her by giving her unique gifts. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth as part of the punishment of humanity for Prometheus' theft of the secret of fire, and all the gods joined in offering her "seductive gifts".
According to the myth, Pandora opened a jar (pithos), in modern accounts sometimes mistranslated as "Pandora's box", releasing all the evils of humanity—although the particular evils, aside from plagues and diseases, are not specified in detail by Hesiod—leaving only Hope inside once she had closed it again. She opened the jar out of simple curiosity and not as a malicious act.
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window shopping
can't afford Pandora's
chest
Jimmy ThePeach
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Parents' day (Elternsprechtag)
A parent-teacher interview (also a parent-teacher conference and parents' evenings in the UK) is a once per term, short conference between students' parents and teachers. The interview is a chance for parents to meet their child's teachers and review any issues or concerns the parents or teachers may have with child/student's performance. These interviews are usually between five to fifteen minutes long. Parent-teacher interviews are a tradition in Western school systems (notably Australia, Canada, the UK (where they're known as parents' evenings) and the United States). A video example can be seen here.
In the United States, many elementary schools will shorten the school day by 2–3 hours (often for an entire week) in mid fall to allow extra time for teachers to give these conferences.
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Elternsprechtag –
das Kreischen
der Kreide
parents' day -
screeching
of chalk
Ralf Bröker
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Port-Louis (Breton: Porzh-Loeiz)
At the beginning of the 17th century, merchants who were trading with India established warehouses in Port-Louis. They later built additional warehouses across the bay in 1628, at the location which became known as "L'Orient" (the Orient in French). In 1664, during the reign of King Louis XIV, the French East India Company was established at Port-Louis. The company established a shipyard at Lorient. The Company was not able to maintain itself financially, and it was abolished in 1769. In 1770, King Louis XVI issued an edict that required the Company to transfer to the state all its properties, in return for which the King agreed to pay all of the Company’s debts and obligations. The French government then took over the shipyards as a naval port and arsenal.
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The weathercock awakes
under the breath of Ponant -
the wetted slate.
Patrick Fetu
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Tap Dance
Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sound of one's tap shoes hitting the floor as a percussive instrument. As such, it is also commonly considered to be a form of music. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (Jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses more on the dance. It is widely performed as a part of musical theater. Rhythm tap focuses more on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the Jazz tradition.
Tap dance has roots in African American dancing such as the Juba Dance, English Lancashire Clog dancing, and probably most notably Irish stepdancing. It is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows.
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Sur le trottoir
la pluie fait des claquettes
et les piétons des pointes.
On the sidewalk
the rain makes tap dance
and the pedestrians toe dance.
Patrick Fetu
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Tu Bishvat (Hebrew: טו בשבט)
a minor Jewish holiday, occurring on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shevat (in 2013, Tu Bishvat will start from sunset on 25 January and finish at nightfall on 26 January).
It is also called "Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot" (Hebrew: ראש השנה לאילנות), literally "New Year of the Trees." In contemporary Israel the day is celebrated as an ecological awareness day and trees are planted in celebration.
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this mountain path
winding upwards -
almond blossom
Freddy Ben-Arroyo
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Wind River Dancers of Wyoming
Wind River Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation shared by the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Native Americans in the central western portion of the U.S. state of Wyoming.
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swirl of fringe
on the wind river dancers -
inauguration day
Elaine Andre
- Reference - Inauguration Day 2013 -
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