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Heru 03-30-2009 05:02 PM

What does this mean?
 
桜がで
風の音楽に
囀るだ

I'm guessing it's a haiku, but I don't quite get it.

The best i got was.
at the sakura (tree?)
In the winds music
it sings? singing? (a bird is singing?)

chryuop 03-30-2009 05:32 PM

I think you are looking at 2 separate phrases there, but I might be wrong.
I see it as "it's a cherry tree and it sings in the wind". I doubt I got it right tho hee hee. Above all the dictionary form of a verb followed by the copula is completely new to me.

Heru 03-30-2009 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chryuop (Post 690778)
I think you are looking at 2 separate phrases there, but I might be wrong.
I see it as "it's a cherry tree and it sings in the wind". I doubt I got it right tho hee hee. Above all the dictionary form of a verb followed by the copula is completely new to me.

Oo that makes sense too!

Nagoyankee 03-31-2009 02:22 AM

Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

alanX 03-31-2009 02:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee (Post 691121)
Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

I think it's improper Japanese...but I'm no professional.

Here's my take which is obviously going to be wrong because I'm Alan...

Cherry trees.
The music of the wind chirps.


To Jspeakers.....how much fail was that on scale 1 to 10?

burkhartdesu 03-31-2009 02:28 AM

Here's my shameful brokenーJapanese haiku from the 9th grade:

くらい空、
しずか な 叫び
ぼく、 おちる。

alanX 03-31-2009 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by burkhartdesu (Post 691125)
Here's my shameful brokenーJapanese haiku from the 9th grade:

くらい空、
しずか な 叫び
ぼく、 おちる。

more like the most awesome one in the world....
*tries to interpret...*

black sky?
silent scream
i fell


pretty much OWNS.

I've never made one. This is inspiring though, lol.

chryuop 03-31-2009 01:30 PM

But what is it? A special kind of poetry?

Nyororin 03-31-2009 01:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee (Post 691121)
Sighs... Poetry in broken Japanese.

That quote in itself is a bit of poetry. :D

Nagoyankee 04-03-2009 03:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nyororin (Post 691340)
That quote in itself is a bit of poetry. :D

The evanescent beauty of the sakura helps even the most illiterate Japanese man turn into a poet. For two weeks per year, that is...


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