My haiku-generating project makes random
selections of phrases I have found in newspaper and magazine articles about
clean energy research. These 5 and 7-syllable phrases are grouped together,
again randomly, into haiku poems – 3 lines of unrelated,
enigmatic and potentially-brilliant combinations of concepts related to
environmental and economic aspects of the development of clean energy
technology.
Just to be clear – by ‘random’ selection I mean something about halfway between the
pure randomness that statisticians have devoted their lives to generating, and
the early-21st century buzzword which I think just meant crazy
unpredictable. So, the lines of haiku are selected and grouped ‘by chance
without a plan or system.’ Next week I’ll talk about the selection of the haiga
illustrations for the background of each haiku.
