April Fool (part 2)

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April Fool (Part 2)

***** Location: Japan, worldwide
***** Season: Mid-Spring
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

四月馬鹿 (しがつばか) shigatsu baka, April fool / April Fool's Day
エイプリルフール
"all fools season", bangu setsu 万愚節（ばんぐせつ）

Read part 1 here first:
... /worldkigo/aprilfool


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Things found on the way

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HAIKU

>... April fool
> ... the dog chases its memory
> ... of a tail

© Juanito 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCjapan/message/1572

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April fool's day --
the mannequin
blinked at me

© JJ March 21, 2005
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cherrypoetryclub/message/22430

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so many roads
for haiku and senryu --
April Fool

Gabi Greve, April 1, 2009


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Editorial
by Susumu Takiguchi
source : World Haiku Review, March 2009

The 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth is being celebrated across the world.

The interesting thing about Darwin is that the evolution of living things does not occur because they want it to happen. On the contrary, living things are in fact ultra-conservative and do not like evolution.
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I am in an evolutionary mood today and am thinking of the history of haiku in terms of evolution. It is 365 years since Basho’s birth and 400 to 500 years since the births of such fathers, or shall we say grandfathers, of haiku as Sokan Yamazaki, Moritake Arakida, Teitoku Matsunaga or Soin Nishiyama who all contributed to the development of Haikai-no-Renga which later begat haiku.
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The haiku evolution is still with us.
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Haiku now has so many different variants. However, almost all the origins of the modern haiku species outside Japan can be found in America. They experienced explosive evolution through the most unnatural selection ...
There have been no survival of the fittest (haiku) because there just has not been any need for these species to try to survive; they have thrived.


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