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Making persistent contrails relevant with Haiku

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posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 05:07 AM
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A 2000 page report on climate change came out recently. Even the condensed version is 27 pages long.

Climate Change 2013

For experts in the various fields addressed it seems to be very moving - one meteorologist cried and vowed never to fly again.

IPCC report makes US meteorologist cry - give up flying

An oceanographer put together 19 Haiku verses to illustrate some of the assessments in this report.

The Entire IPCC Report in 19 Illustrated Haiku

Haiku is a poetic form. There are 3 lines with 17 total syllables distributed in a 5/7/5 syllable count.

Poetic Form: Haiku

I thought I would try one myself:

Water: where are you?
I am tied up in the sky
with my contrail friends



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 05:31 AM
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Haiku's on climate change eh?
His were really rather good
Yours was less so, shame.

edit on 21-12-2013 by waynos because: (no reason given)



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 05:33 AM
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I liked that. Here is one I made to honour it.

your haiku is cool
but it will not suffice now
because we're all gunna die from the chemtrails!!





posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 05:34 AM
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waynos
reply to post by luxordelphi
 


Haiku's on climate change eh?
His were really rather good
Yours was less so, shame.


yeah about mine.. what did you think about mine?

Awesome huh!!!

You know it...



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 05:35 AM
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Yours was fab, but I think you lost count



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 06:35 AM
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luxordelphi
The Entire IPCC Report in 19 Illustrated Haiku

Haiku is a poetic form. There are 3 lines with 17 total syllables distributed in a 5/7/5 syllable count.

Poetic Form: Haiku


Nice thread luxordelphi
Don't want to turn what seems to be a frivolous thread, serious - or perhaps I do …
Haiku is a most misunderstood poetry form and is nothing like as simple as is presented in these 19 “haiku”. Yet it can carry a powerful message into the mind of the reader.

The haiku format is indeed syllable bound so that the writer needs to think concisely, just as we need to do with global warming. However, the poem is also “bipolar”. One part sets a scene. The second stretches the thinking of reader - and the writer. Haiku are not obvious, it is not a simple expression of causality. The second part does not simply show the consequences of the observation made in the first part.

Not trying to be serious, just saying. In fact the fun begins when trying to write haiku correctly.

Good Haiku are to me, a powerful lesson in abstract reasoning, much better than those pattern-type abstract reasoning tests that probably evolved because giving a score to true abstraction is too subjective for those analysing the test (because they might themselves not appreciate abstraction).

Enough meandering, here is the real point. I believe good haiku can be an excellent and powerful way to get others to truly think about real issues – like global warming and all our individual contributions that are making it such a success.

So if we let the first part of the haiku (the first two lines) set the scene, then we add the second part (the third line) seems to be unrelated to the first part. Of course there is a connection, one that is relevant to me and my thinking, and I challenge the reader to seek his own relevance within his life's experience.

Taking the first haiku presented by Gregory C Johnson might then read like this...
(not claining these are good, but they are illustrative)

Big, fast carbon surge:
Ice melts, oceans heat and rise
We fill our gas tanks

Carbon increases:
Air warms through century past.
Venus shines aloft

Abyss warms, coasts flood.
Air moistens – salt patterns shift.
Whales swim slowly by


So. what offers are there on this line?



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 07:37 AM
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That's fantastic! perhaps next you can do a thread on how you get around. You know, like how you just ride a bike, or walk, or paddle a boat. I think everyone would like to hear how you have adapted to your surroundings completely boycotting the fuel burning ways. I look forward to reading it.



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:22 PM
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reply to post by waynos
 


Stratospheric jets!
Billowing white in the sky
My feet are burning



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:28 PM
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Geo-engineers:
Using just three business jets
Sulfur acid rain



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:36 PM
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Persistent contrails
Transform to become cirrus
My tea kettle burns

Stratospheric trails
Emitting their chemistry
Sunshine, a stranger



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:39 PM
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The troposphere warms
The stratosphere gets colder
Inversion layer



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:50 PM
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Chemtrails ....just plane dust

violent weather adjusts

Mother Earth just is.


..........

Climate change seesaw

impossible cold weather

existence adapts



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 01:58 PM
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Goal posts move again
The chemtales inconsistent,
outrageously so



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:13 PM
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Sensitivity
to Nature is essential
for a good Haiku!

Cold winter morning;
sparkling in the blue sky--
pure water crystals!



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:34 PM
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Infinite blue sky
I thought I saw The Heron
Now I collect stamps



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:36 PM
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Intrepid flier
What have you done to the sky?
Was it not mine too?



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:36 PM
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Cool. Now that is the spirit of haiku. You can even get more abstract. Encourage thinking not just following. If everything is explained in too much detail, thinking is both superfluous and suppressed. Haiku must make the reader become involved in the statement (and hopefully a part of the solution in this case). And a playful, mischievousness (almost taunting) is an acceptable part of haiku.

Gregory C Johnson 4

Glaciers and ice sheets
Melt worldwide, speed increasing
Faster fast foods please

What better way to relate real issues to the present “reality” of commercialism that has such relevance to global warming and contrails.

edit on 21-12-2013 by KenArten because: small correction



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:39 PM
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Just look up, he said
So many white lines up there
Pressure cooker class

Ozone: where are you?
Gone to play amongst jet trails.
My plants have sunburn



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:57 PM
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You're cool KenArten
Lotus in the boiling pond
Mars is where we've been



posted on Dec, 21 2013 @ 02:59 PM
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DJW001
Sensitivity
to Nature is essential
for a good Haiku!


Indeed, what is not a part of Nature, is apart from Nature.

Nature's patience
Greatest force of survival
Man makes his challenge


DJW001
Cold winter morning;
sparkling in the blue sky--
pure water crystals!


Hai, so desu
yoroshiku onegai shimasu

Cold winter morning
Sparkling blue sky above
Nature's purity



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