{"id":604,"date":"2005-11-29T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2005\/11\/jazz-in-haiku.html"},"modified":"2005-11-29T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T16:47:00","slug":"jazz-in-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2005\/11\/jazz-in-haiku.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz in Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">Haiku <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">3 lines<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Lines One and Three have five syllables, Line Two has 7 syllables<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">No rhyming, similes, metaphors or narration.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\">Usually about nature or a moment.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>I&#8217;m not that proficient at these but I&#8217;d thought I take a shot at putting my thoughts as to what Jazz is, in the form of six Haiku&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/jazz123.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/320\/jazz123.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Who am I? Tension. <strong>Jazz is<\/strong> Life on the Hyphen. Race. Contradiction. <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><strong>Jazz is<\/strong> Convergence.<br \/>Unity not Uniform.<br \/>Out of Many One.<\/p>\n<p>Freedom, Boundaries.<br \/><strong>Jazz is<\/strong> Improvisation.<br \/>Solo-darity.<\/p>\n<p>Life in the Moment.<br \/><strong>Jazz is<\/strong> the Selah of Life.<br \/>Christ-Incognito<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jazz<\/strong> is Listening.<br \/>Practicing\u2026Presence\u2026People.<br \/>Playing it by Ear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jazz is<\/strong> Born of Blues.<br \/>Transfigured the Disfigured.<br \/>Soulful, Full of Soul.<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiku 3 lines Lines One and Three have five syllables, Line Two has 7 syllables No rhyming, similes, metaphors or narration. Usually about nature or a moment. 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