#299: brevity

4/3/2016

to tell a story
in syllabic brevity
in a word: haiku

An historic moment captured by Cuban photojournalist Yander Alberto Zamora
— full article here.

a haiku:
Air Force One landing,
touchdown Havana, Cuba...
score one for the world

DEFINITION of this 3-syllable noun:

the quality of expressing much in few words; terseness: Ironically, it is long-winded Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet who famously says that brevity is the soul of wit.
shortness of time or duration; briefness: the brevity of human life.

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Poet and designer, David Alan Foster has been experimenting with haiku since the '70s. He has inspired (or possibly offended) many with said experiments.

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