Big Pony Haiku
So abominably long-winded, so unable to be concise, frame his thoughts and stick to the point, and then he would have us believe he writes haiku for fun.
There is a reason why haiku is Japanese, Franco. If you were Japanese, you would have fallen on your sword a long time ago, for a fraction of what you have done.
You belong to the world of florid and melodramatic, overblown Italian prose. Not haiku.
Yesterday, on Big Pony’s blog:
HAIKU HERMAN
1AUG2012
In one of my speeches in parliament i quoted a haiku, i had written some time before :
-justice-
tension in the strings
balancing the scales
I think that short poem could summarise my three and a half hour speech that followed.
It was also nice to know that Herman van Rompuy, President of the European Council, who was on official visit in Malta some weeks ago, writes haiku and he has recently published his first haiku collection.
In fact he has been nicknamed haiku Herman !
39 Comments Comment
Reply to H.P. Baxxter Click here to cancel reply
Franco
Wants to be made minister.
Pretentious wanker.
Here’s another one:
Showing off his shirt
He sucks in his pot belly
And looks like a git.
Can’t you ignore this arsehole as well, like the other one?
So this pr*ck would have us believe that he’s European Council Presidential material because, you know, the current president writes haiku too.
Now let me show off a bit too:
-wishful thinking-
cockfighting bullshitter
see hear never ever more
Franco Debono
Tifel biezel, mill-ahjar.
Dejjaqtna! Daqshekk!
Daphne, I thought this is a nut-free zone.
I am sick and tired reading and hearing in other media of every piece of rubbish that drips our of Franco Debono’s mouth.
Bollocks
What Franco writes
Is what he does not have
Although in bella Italia this is now a crime to accuse somebody of having none.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/01/no-balls-ruling-italy-illegal_n_1729908.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIMEhIWR48U&feature=plcp
Doesn’t Franco Debono know that there are specific rules for writing haiku?
There should be 17 syllables throughout, made up as follows: five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second, and five again in the third line.
It’s not just a question of cobbling together three short lines of what he thinks is arty-farty minimalism.
Actually, there is no (necessary) 17-syllable rule for haiku, although the pattern you suggest exists.
The essence of haiku is “the moment”. Try this example from the American haiku artist, Raymond Roselip, from his book of haiku Rabbit in the Moon:
butterfly
unshaking
on my nose shaking
Regarding Franco’s haiku, he doesn’t understand the difference between injustice and pique.
Modern haiku doesn’t have to be a 5/7/5..It can be shorter..
I’m just defining what i studied re haiku
not taking sides
‘Grace guts Site’ is a site which helps you understand better-C.C
Three and a half hour speech?
Why, do you think you can cover the following chapters of national importance in a one-minute speech?
1. L-episodju ta; meta ghamilt il-priedka tat-tifel u s-soap box (mhux minn ta’ HuJDalliBA).
2. Ir-rizultat tieghi tal-Form 2c.
3. Il-cockfights f’Hal-Ghaxaq – il-Baggio, il-Fiorentina u stejjer ohra.
4. Il-Hames Distrett, Louis Galea, Helen D’Amato u karattri ohra.
5. Kemm batejt fil-hames distrett elettorali.
6. Id-diskors tieghi fil-ftuh tal-Parlament fl-2008.
7. Il-Gustizzja u l-Intern – Ghaliex xtaqt insir Ministru.
8. Ir-responsabbilita’ ministerjali u kollettiva – Kif thoss eccitament kbir meta tivvota kontra Ministru tal-gvern tieghek stess.
9. Meritokrazija u Napuljun Bonaparte – Kapitlu imzejjen b’xi episodji romantici mil-hajja ta’ Napuljun biex ma jkunx daqshekk boring.
10. The Click and the Oligarchy.
11. Il-finanzjament tal-partiti – it-tezi tieghi.
12. Il-blokks tal-Bidnija.
13. Suggetti mixxellanji, f’kaz li nsejt xi haga.
Insomma, jien darba ktibt essay brillanti ta’ analizi letterarja fuq ir-rumanz celebri “Mrs Frisby and the rats of NIMH” fl-ahhar tliet minuti u nofs tal-annual examination, u ovvja gibt 98.
Kont Form II C.
‘haiku Herman’? Faik u Franco.
Three and a half hour boring speech in parliament by Debono. He is following in Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez footsteps whose speeches can last a whole day but at least they are head of states.
One look at his face
I want to run and vomit
Ja bahnan
I’ve got a Haiku for Franco:
Twilight
The cock that crowed
Is a fading memory
F’ gieh kemm hemm, dan mhux haiku.
Haiku jrid ikun kompost minn tlett versi ta’ 5 – 7 u 5 sillabi. Dan fih:
-justice- 2 sillabi
tension in the strings 5 sillabi
balancing the scales 5 sillabi
Billi tlett versi taparsi poetici ma jfissirx li jsiru haiku.
Il-kultura tradizzjoni tal-haiku tirrikjedi wkoll li jigu deskritti xeni u mhux espressi hsibjiet. Imma nsomma forsi qed inkunu ezigenti zzejjed issa.
Tghid mhux se tmeri lil Franco fuq il-hajku?
U imbghad mara?
Dak mindu kien zghir kien jiehu kollox bis-serjeta, u meta kiber wera kemm jifhem f’kollox imeri lil Eddie u imeri lil Giovanni Bonello, tghid ma toqghodx hdejn dal-genju bravu minn Hal Ghaxaq dilettant tal-ghasafar u sapporter tal-Fiorentina?
Haiku ta’ sormu.
Excuse the expression, but I just couldn’t help myself.
gzira sabiha
fiha avukat bhal dan
xejn ma jonqosna
5 – 7 – 5
Kollox jispicca,
Ftit trab isir il-bniedem;
Ahseb Franco, xtarr…
@Innocent Bystander
Gagging orders were only issued against the other one. Cannot touch him now.
[Daphne – Kemm int tedjanti, Stingray. Understand once and for all that I know my audience better than you do, and the proof of the pudding, as the saying goes, is in the eating.]
Marelli kemm hu high achiever. Membru tal-Parlament, jabbozza ligijiet, jiddefendi kriminali fil-Qorti, ikisser oligarkiji u jsib il-hin jikteb haiku u anke blokk ghandu issa.
Ara dan meta ma jibqax MP x’se jaghmel. Ftit irid jibda jikteb il poyims u addio Dun Karm ghax jiehodlu postu u ma niskantax jekk xi darba jikteb il-kanzunetta li trebbahna l-Eurovision song contest.
“(Franco) jikteb il-kanzunetta li trebbahna l-Eurovision” – u mar tarax li ser jiktibha biss. Franco ser ikanta, u jiderrigi l-vidjow ukoll… Oscars, here comes Franco!
Jien Franco Debono
Nissemma irrid
Xhin ma narax ismi
Id-doza inzid
Illum se nivvota
U ghada nastjeni
Halli ma tindunawx
Lil min nappartjeni
Illum Franco Debono
E il mio grande nome
Imma wara l-elezzjoni
Insir Frankie Tabone?
Franco Battiato and Franco Debono have more than their first name in common I see.
Harry Purdie’s comment is spot on.
Franco Debono
Xi dwejjaq ta’ bniedem
Veru mummy’s boy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/aug/02/facebook-83m-profiles-bogus-fake
In a return published this week, the company said 8.7% of its 955 million global users are not real.
There were 83.09 million fake users in total, which Facebook classifies into three groups. The largest is made up of almost 46 million duplicate profiles, accounting for 4.8% of all accounts. The company defined that category as “an account that a user maintains in addition to his or her principal account”.
What were deemed “user-misclassified” profiles amounted to 2.4%, almost 23 million, where Facebook says “users have created personal profiles for a business, organisation or non-human entity such as a pet”.
Finally, “undesirable” profiles accounted for the remainder, about 14 million, which are deemed to be in breach of Facebook’s terms and conditions. The company said this typically means accounts that have been set up to send spam messages or content to other Facebook users.
gzira sabiha
fiha avukat bhal dan
xejn ma jonqosna
5 – 7 – 5
Is-serduk jidden
Hanqa ta’ hmar tidwi
Il-lejber jirrenja
I will be “tedjanti” till kingdom come. You have been gagged and cannot write one single word concerning JPO, Gonzi’s forced coalition partner with whom he must consult before presenting legislation. How humiliating for you and Gonzi.
[Daphne – Dear Stingray, like other rabid (and stupid) Labour supporters, you prefer to believe that I am told what to do because this suits your purposes. You cannot stand the thought that somebody like me looks at your lot and laughs with contempt. You prefer to believe that I am told/paid to do it. If you, a Labour supporter, are so upset because I have decided to stop writing about Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando Smith, then this is a pretty good indicator that I’ve taken the right decision. My readers are mainly NOT Laburisti.]
Please Daphne, don’t you start writing about that miserable midget again. I wouldn’t mind if you stop writing about this one too. More articles on the wannabes at Mile End would be appreciated.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Franco Debono as reported in The Times:
“Bullies have no place in politics, let alone in the politics of a small island. Bullies have debased politics and brought the troubled situation we are in now. Bullies mean trouble and more bullies.”
Yes, you’re so right. Now follow your own teaching and get out of our faces, Franco. Don’t you realise that you’re one hell of a bully.
Franco Debono
L-allat igennu
Qabel ma joqtlu.