Haiku

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 03:50 PM

Love 'em...

Please compose a Haiku-like poemlet about something/anything, or paste in your favorite, one at a time. Basho will, of course, be well represented!

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 03:52 PM

At the ancient pond
a frog plunges into
the sound of water

-- Basho

**Keith Wilson** · 05-31-2006, 03:54 PM

Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

- - Basho

It's the same poem as above, probably his most famous. I like to hear how it sounds in the original, poetry being the thing which evaporates all too easily in translation

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:00 PM

An island song
Like a floating river
Rain Rain Fall Fall

-- Morten Paulson

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:02 PM

Behold the ego
Set in glowing emptiness
On the edge of time

-- Noel Kaufmann

**huisjen** · 05-31-2006, 04:03 PM

ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
ouch, ouch, ow, ow, ow, ouch, ouch
ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

**Norman Bernstein** · 05-31-2006, 04:04 PM

Jewish Haiku
*****
After the warm rain
the sweet smell of camellias.
Did you wipe your feet?
*****
Her lips near my ear,
Aunt Sadie whispers the name
of her friend's disease.
*****
Looking for pink buds
to prune, the old moyel
wanders among his flowers.
*****
Today I am a man.
Tomorrow I will return
to the seventh grade.
*****
Harsh Scrabble discord--
someone has placed "putzhead" on
a triple word score.
*****
Testing the warm milk
on her wrist, she sighs softly.
But her son is forty.
*****
The sparkling blue sea
reminds me to wait an hour
after my sandwich.
*****
Tea ceremony--
fragrant steam perfumes the air.
Try the cheese Danish.
*****
Lacking fins or tail
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty.
*****
Yom Kippur-- Forgive
me, Lord, for the Mercedes
and all that lobster.
*****
My nature journal --
today, I saw some trees and birds.
I should know the names?
*****
Like a bonsai tree,
your terrible posture at
my dinner table.
*****
Beyond Valium
the peace of knowing one's child
is an internist.
*****
Jews on safari --
map, compass, elephant gun,
hard sucking candies.
*****
Coroner's report --
"The deceased, wearing no hat,
caught his death of cold."
*****
The same kimono
the top geishas are wearing:
got it at Loehmann's.
*****
The sparrow brings home
too many worms for her young.
"Force yourself," she chirps.
*****
Jewish triathlon:
gin rummy, then contract bridge,
followed by a nap.
*****
"Can't you just leave it?"
the new Jewish mother asks -
umbilical cord.
*****
The shivah visit:
so sorry about your loss.
Now back to my problems.
*****
Our youngest daughter,
our most precious jewel.
Hence the name, Tiffany.
*****
Mom, please! There is no
need to put that dinner roll
in your pocketbook.
*****
Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.
*****
Concert of car horns
as we debate the question
of when to change lanes.
*****
Sorry I'm not home
to take your call. At the tone
please state your bad news
*****
Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
after all I've done?
*****
Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast: feh
*****
Left the door open.
for the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.
*****
Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Tochis.
Oy! To be fluent!
*****
Quietly murmured
at Saturday services,
Yanks 5, Red Sox 3.
*****
A lovely nose ring --
excuse me while I put my
head in the oven.
*****
Hard to tell under
the lights--white Yarmulke or
male-pattern baldness

**Phillip Allen** · 05-31-2006, 04:04 PM

why don't you guys tell this old Arkie what the rules are?

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Phillip Allen

why don't you guys tell this old Arkie what the rules are?

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:08 PM

Silence--a strangled
Telephone has forgotten
That it should ring

-- Michael R. Collings

**P.I. Stazzer-Newt** · 05-31-2006, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by Phillip Allen

why don't you guys tell this old Arkie what the rules are?

Google for haiku
enlightenment may follow
perhaps not maybe

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:12 PM

Enlightenment
A word I lost
The sun shining on my face.

-- Meerkat

**Tristan** · 05-31-2006, 04:14 PM

Pencil lines on door
creep toward mine
boy becoming man

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 04:17 PM

tsuku-zuku to botan no ue no kawazu kana

a masterly climb
to the top of the peony...
frog

-- Issa

**Tristan** · 05-31-2006, 04:21 PM

Stealing
The scent of cherry blossoms
Off goes the storm.

Sokan

**P.I. Stazzer-Newt** · 05-31-2006, 04:21 PM

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

- Suzie Wagner

Yesterday it worked
Today it is not working
Windows is like that

- Margaret Segall

**Tristan** · 05-31-2006, 04:23 PM

The rising sun
A cock cries,
It's breath smoking

adapted from Takeo

**S/V Laura Ellen** · 05-31-2006, 04:38 PM

Circus was coming
Jumbo was star of the show
As he crossed the tracks

Elephant meets train
The outcome that day: Train won
Elephant zero

____________

And now the explanation:
Jumbo was an unusually large elephant belonging to P.T. Barnum's circus. In 1885, however, Jumbo was killed by a train in St. Thomas, Ontario. This life-sized monument was erected in 1985 in commemoration of that tragic event.

**Katherine** · 05-31-2006, 05:31 PM

Someone recently promised me a haiku. I still haven't got it. Thanks for the reminder Meer.

**S/V Laura Ellen** · 05-31-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by Katherine

Someone recently promised me a haiku. I still haven't got it. Thanks for the reminder Meer.

The car chick is hot
She’s cute as can be even with
grease under her nails

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 10:09 PM

This place is starting to remind me of the national and local news: murder and politics.

**Katherine** · 05-31-2006, 10:11 PM

Sorry about the thread drift Meer.

**Meerkat** · 05-31-2006, 10:15 PM

I was refering to the bilge in general.

Allan's whatever-it-was didn't help much either.

**S/V Laura Ellen** · 05-31-2006, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Meerkat

Love 'em...

Please compose a Haiku-like poemlet about something/anything, or paste in your favorite, one at a time. Basho will, of course, be well represented!

Originally Posted by Meerkat

Allan's whatever-it-was didn't help much either.

Thanks, remember you asked for it.

WX · 06-01-2006, 02:35 AM

One I wrote for a writing course I did once, long ago.
Banded stone
water smoothed
winter cold

i believe true haiku is composed of a certain number of syllables, so maybe it doesn't count.
I googled this one, which I like.

After the storm
A boy wiping the sky
From the tables

- Darko Plazanin
Sambo, Yugoslavia
Ehime Prefecture first prize
1990 National Cultural Festival

**S/V Laura Ellen** · 06-01-2006, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by WX

...i believe true haiku is composed of a certain number of syllables, so maybe it doesn't count...

A haiku has three lines per stanza. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7, and the third line has 5.
A more modern form is to not be concerned with syllable count and concentrate on using as few words as possible.

**Milo Christensen** · 06-01-2006, 06:37 AM

lady from niger
rode the back of a tiger
he took her to lunch

**Wild Dingo** · 06-01-2006, 10:49 AM

Haiku?? Surely one should ask our resident sheepchucker the legendary JohnnoB for that?... I mean thats the famous furious tongue lashin dance them Kiwi fellas do isnt it?

**Wild Dingo** · 06-01-2006, 10:50 AM

ooops!! I thought you said Haka... my bad... go back to the sheep Johnno its okay brother

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