KOILKLEEN   3                                                       (wed. 3/4 )

  Where  Koo ( jh )  talk for   england  about the nature     of          british weather
               and/or whether the british will turn    naturally  against    britishDemocracy
                                           b4   they  turn                  against     british          TV


                                                                                   








                                                                          and we learn more  about the      Power of 17
  As we learned on K2, 
       the  Power of 17   is integral to the force borne by the modern Haiku as we know it.
    For the Haiku has become as important to us as the air we breathe, as  joey barton & wayne rooney  have 
noted so poignantly in their jewel-autobiography:   
              you may nick my frigging wheels but i'd be very reluktant for you to take 
                      my compendium of  traditional-and-non-traditional  Haiku    !   ( Barton/Rooney      on/me/ed/son    press)

However,  there are other examples of how  17  be powerful   .   ..        .
If we consider the romantic n-tanglements which people undertake, we can be pretty sure that these tanglements are likely to number  17 .
I base this confidence on the following table * :

     NO TANGLEMENTS                                  MIDDLEGROUNDSWELL                                  LOTS OF TANGLE
       nuns   virgins                                                the average joe                                        Joeybarton         lotharios
    priests in absentia                                                     pigeons                                               sex addicts/workers
                ascetics                                                white doves                                                        theKammerleg
   YeSilentMonk                                                 (smokey) linnets                                            Captains of Industry
          Pope the HighKoo                                                                                        Borgia popes **  

                            *  table taken from    Fractals: Can you see what they are yet?  ( Rolf Harris Mandelbrot )    
                          **  as played by kolin farrell in the film    In Borgias  

So  2recap     based on the LawofAverages, it happen thus that the no.of   romantic n-tanglements 
 that a person is likely to experience  is  17 ;  which is odd in itself  in that  17  is, as discovered, the no. of
beats/syllables in a haiku ;  as it is also the date of TheHighKoo's birthday     .                                 
                                     










KOILKLEEN    day  2                                                        ( tues, apr. 2nd)

                                             
                                                where JeanHackman  talk  2&4  pKOO   about the    
                                                                                                       Power of   17

Your  esteemedHoohoo(hoo)liness,     flock
In Japanese culture the Haiku be an essential, poetic form.
It can be a tad complicated in all honest, but take a peek at the  Wiki entry  on  Haiku  .  .
This explains the importance, the  power of  17 ; in traditional,  japanese haiku there are  17  ON 
- which are kinda like beats, syllables if you will  ..  tho not !exactly
Here,  allow me to demonstrate this point with two haiku by the 17thCentury Japanese master  Basho :  
In their original japanese,  both   old pond   and   cold shower  contain 17  on,  arranged in 5/7/5 form;
but(t) count the syllables please! in their respective English translations -
    old pond  ...         (2)                                  the first cold shower                         (5)
    a frog leaps in    (4)                                  even the monkey seems to want     (8)
    water's sound     (3)                                  a little coat of straw                           (6)
( trans -  pastor'enryFrog)                                                    (trans  - SilentMonkey )
      Thus, as Dracula said to the mirror,   the count is not straightforward  . .. ..   Syllables   and   On
      do not necessarily correspond.
So,  let's keep it simple shall?we   -    I quote myself in this instance :
          Look  lets not! beat about the bush  ?eh   . . we could bang on-and-on about all of this 
          haiku-hoohaa    but(t) at the end of the day time is short,  none of us  is going to live4ever,     
          even  Hildathatcher           !
          so 2cut2theChase    heres wot a haiku is (striktly) : 
         17 syllables ; 3 lines (5/7/5) ;  and (all) about the 'season(s)'
         Of course    some won't be like that       at all                    .
                                          from  HackmanJean :  Knit On   Purl Harbor ; the history of haiku violation  

So ...  your  High-Koo      and all you flockyfolk   tooo
the   Power of 17  is evident  ..    but that's not the hole story by any stretch of the imagination  .  ..   .     .