{"id":9725,"date":"2008-08-08T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T13:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/08\/eight-haiku-to-celebrate-08-08-08\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:22","slug":"eight-haiku-to-celebrate-08-08-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/08\/08\/eight-haiku-to-celebrate-08-08-08\/","title":{"rendered":"eight haiku to celebrate 08-08-08"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/strong>A<\/strong><\/em>s you surely have already learned, the number 8 is lucky<\/a> in many nations of East Asia. That’s apparently because the Chinese character for the number 8 is \u516b, or b\u0101, which sounds like the word for prosperity (\u53d1, or f\u0101). Naturally, the date 08\/08\/08 is considered lucky by a factor of three, which is why the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony began this morning, 08\/08\/08, at exactly 08:08 AM.<\/p>\n

In addition to celebrating Triple-8 Day by re-posting Jim Kacian’s Haiku Primer<\/em> (see our posting<\/a> immediately below), the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang thought we’d reprise haiku and senryu that have appeared at this weblog containing the word eight. Much to our surprise, there have been exactly eight of them. Talk about auspicious!<\/p>\n

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Without further ado, and hoping they bring you and yours all kinds of prosperity and good fortune, here they are:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

harvest moon\u2013
\nthe peddler selling
\neight cent sake<\/p>\n

seven tumble down
\neight rise up…
\nmaiden flowers<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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for eight pennies
\nthe whole family celebrates…
\nsummer ice!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

.. by Kobayashi Issa<\/em><\/a>, translated by David G. Lanoue <\/p>\n

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for a second time
\neight candles
\non mother\u2019s birthday cake<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. by Hilary Tann – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

bottom of the 8th
\neight determined drunks
\nget the wave going . . .<\/p>\n

\u2026 by Tom Clausen – Baseball Haiku<\/em> (2007)<\/p>\n

autumn rain
\na hopscotch loses
\nits eight<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026by Roberta Beary (3rd place tie, Moonset<\/em> Haiku Contest, Ed. 4:1)<\/p>\n

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soap stings my eyes \u2014
\nan eight-year-old’s face
\nflashes in the mirror<\/p>\n

.. by dagosan<\/em> [Aug. 28, 2004]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

crossing the grasslands
\neight hundred miles
\nof burma shave signs<\/p>\n

.. by Ed Markowski<\/p>\n

b<\/em><\/strong>onus written this morning:<\/p>\n

dancing
\nwith his 8-year-old
\nsteppin’ light on old toes<\/p>\n

.. by dagosan<\/em> (Aug. 8, 2008, for James and Arthur Giacalone)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you surely have already learned, the number 8 is lucky in many nations of East Asia. That’s apparently because the Chinese character for the number 8 is \u516b, or b\u0101, which sounds like the word for prosperity (\u53d1, or f\u0101). Naturally, the date 08\/08\/08 is considered lucky by a factor of three, which is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2wR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12211,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}