Anybody for Haiku?

[marions ghost]

Over in the election forum somebody posted a Haiku thread and it was fun--became a kind of abstract dialogue when reading the stream of posts. Doesn't need to be political, but can be. Anybody up for trying it here?

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From early January thread (link below)
What is Haiku: Haiku is one of the most important forms of traditional Japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
(doesnt have to be exact, you get the idea)

Democracy cried
thumbs twiddled, eyes abated
hearts hiding, what now

C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\Articles\After Jan 6\Democratic Underground Forums - Therapeutic, Post January 6th Haiku Thread!!.htm

[Botany]

1. O.K.

Blue skies ... cold sunshine
Naked trees in the forest ....
Dogs barked.... winter's here.

I used that in 9th grade 11th grade and a freshman english class ... lol

[achtung_circus]

2. I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but

Like a final scream
From a dying mother earth,
The loon's mournful cry.

ac

[1monster]

3. Two

Thirty-nine degrees
Icy winds blow in sunshine
Florida winter


Little Cat thunder
Pitter patter paws thumping
Up and down the halls

[tg]

5. NY winter

Never over ten
I'm dreaming of a heat wave
Thirty-nine degrees

[1monster]

6. LOL

It's all a matter of perspective. It was in the high seventies here yesterday, so 39 feels damned cold. But, believe me, I'll take a Florida winter over a New York winter ANY DAY!

:D

[oneighty]

4. hmmmm

There's a flea on me
Flea bites,feeds
Happy to be useful

And now you will no longer be interested in Voyages.

Hee hee hee

[Warpy]

7. My favorites to date have been

You must scatch me there
Yes there! Right above my tail!
Elevator butt (cat haiku)

Beware of earthquakes
Little bedfellow cricket
I'm turning over

I'd also suggest a slight tweaking of yours:

Democracy died
News absent, eyes averted
No hope left, what now?

[moodforaday]

8. Hilarious haiku site

One of my favorite daily sites. Progressive haikus all the way, not just hilarious, but incredibly perceptive: www.dailyhaiku.com

[marions ghost]

13. really good website, thanks!

yes some excellent ones here, and the photos are a plus...

thanks marekjed

[Lefty48197]

9. Don't understand Haiku

Does it have to be funny
or will this suffice?

[marions ghost]

10. yes...your 3 lines

Don't understand Haiku
Does it have to be funny
or will this suffice?

...are haiku I think

[marions ghost]

12. funny is fine, and not-funny is fine

here are a couple of unfunny ones:

They were called
those who would undermine Democracy
but they stood anyway

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Lofty words crack in cold air
snowballs lofted against black limos
seem soft and muted

[Kat45]

11. Here's one I did and had in a local paper several years ago:

Endless fields of grass,
a vegetarian world.
The dreams of a cow.

[marions ghost]

14. love that image

and the dual perspectives

[bain_sidhe]

15. Winter Storm Haiku

Wrote this yesterday...

white wind scours the earth
trees dance naked, proud and free
purified, pristine

Rewrote it today (I am constitutionally unable to look at anything I've written without rewriting it):

white wind scours the earth
purified, pristine trees dance
naked, proud and free

[noamnety]

16. no title

Deaf me, I voted
A provisional ballot
One voice, rejected

Deaf me went marching
Two hands yelled their own protest
Above the chanting

Orange scarf flapping
A long third arm in cold wind
Echoing anger.

Later, I’m standing
Subway lurching, arm upstretched
Fingers curled silent.

My small mouth opens.
I howl. People stare. I smile.
I, too, am noisy.

[Pale Blue Dot]

17. Friday night

Bored on Friday night
So I google my own name
Now I'm depressed, too.

[marions ghost]

18. LOL, love it finnfan...

Bored on Saturday night
I check the writers' forum to see
if there's any more haiku

[eridani]

19. Let's resurrect this thread--

That's haiku for you
Run out of damned syllables
Before you even

[marions ghost]

27. LOL

:applause:

[jmm]

20. Ok, here goes

Ballots devoured
without a paper to trace
in a Diebold machine

Nuclear winter
this season is coming soon
let us all thank Bush

I hear Sponge Bob's gay
what moran watches him and
thinks of cartoon sex

A haiku for Zell
he is a wolf in sheep's wool
Democrat in name

Mitt Romney's haiku
Oh please Utah take him back
pretty pretty please

Dick Cheney's haiku
an undisclosed location
hides a criminal

[marions ghost]

24. I could see more in the

Pantheon of Repuglicans

It would be educational for people who like to get their education in bite-size pieces...a roundup of all the known congressional and cabinet zealots and criminals and just plain losers

[marions ghost]

28. Hmmm....

Zealots and criminals and
just plain losers
How did they get to rule?

[Jack Rabbit]

21. !!

Several years ago, I began the habit of writing haiku in two lines of ten and seven syllables. This allows for a more natural English sentence structure and still retians the basic idea of haiku.

A barefoot woman waters her front lawn
The rain goddess comes today.

The candidate's fundraiser is tonight
The streetwalker sells her wares.

[MaryBear]

22. I like the first one.

The candidate and the streetwalker sell
Gender assumptions prevail

[MaryBear]

29. No snide comment intended here

Assumptions noticed on my own read
I read candidate male and then

Thought oh my he could be a she and then
Realized so could she that is

The Streetwalker could be a he not she
A young boy selling it like she

[marions ghost]

23. Happened to come here today and ...

The dead Haiku thread
was not where expected
OMG resurrected

[marions ghost]

25. Another one

The Way of The Tortoise
My last step was Jan 29
Next step May 6

[marions ghost]

26. Seriously...

Repent or Resign
All ye who voted Kerry
And Jesus wept

[omega minimo]

30. Next Time

Black Box nightmare looms
Not waiting for a savior
You are the hero






:bounce:

[MaryBear]

31. On Employment

I do have a job
And it is not with the mob
My heart it does throb

No one did I rob
And no longer do I sob
For I have a job

:woohoo:

[MaryBear]

32. Hmmm

Haiku is one thing
A ditty is another
Can something be both