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[Supercharazad]

This is a thread where we shall discuss and shard Haikus.


A haiku is a Japanese style of poetry that follows a specific order:

There are always 3 lines

5 syllables in the first line
7 in the second line
5 in the third

They must reflect a season in at least one word.

Some examples:

    Whitecaps on the bay:
    A broken signboard banging
    In the April wind

 

The black skies of war
Brought great sorrow to her eyes
Painful Christmas Eve

The second is mine, it's about a woman worrying about her husband, who is fighting in World War 1.

[Levi]

Summer is very good
Many cute girls at the beach
Too bad I'm ugly



I have no poetry in my soul.

[alfie275]

Summer is too bright
I close my bedroom curtains
To stop the screen glare

[Sensei]

Oh, this thread again?
I guess haikus never tire us.
This line breaks the normal poetic rhythm.

[Supercharazad]

Oh, this thread again?
I guess haikus never tire us.
This line breaks the normal poetic rhythm.

Haiku follows rules
Seasons must be shown in them
5 lines in the last

EDIT: Balls. Just notcied that the last line makes no sense at all.

[alfie275]

This post was stupid
Reference to a season
But now a haiku

[Pnx]

I was bored so I threw something together, but a word first.

This takes depression
Turns it up to eleven
My warning, do not read

Spoiler: warning, depressing, and emo (click to show/hide)

This is about one of those superheros with hard to control powers. I strung together a bunch of haiku's to form a poem.

Sifting through the ashes
They are blown on a somber wind
Never again as they were

It has happened again
I tore myself away from it
My destructive creation

I asked myself why
I then asked myself why not
How could I willfully care

Daydreams of destruction
The embers burn me while sifting
Can I still feel pain?

I must walk onward
To doubtless burn another home
It is simply my nature

I wish I could be robbed
Of this gift-like curse of mine
Would I then be me?

It's reality's nature
To drift all into decay
Maybe in a good way

Maybe good will still come
Perhaps I am still worth living
I am full of doubt

Fin

Once I hated this
Style of constrictive poetry
But constraints broaden

I've really got to stop.

[FoiledFencer]

Tapping keyboard keys
Through the scent of summer rain
Leaving muffled words

[Supercharazad]

The boy burns the ants.
Why must he kill them, cruelly?
Summer sun through glass.

[Mithras]

Flood rain sweeps the streets.
Watch all wash past forgotten.
Now to start anew.

[ein]

この俳句は
日本語で書いたね
英語はあかん

[Solifuge]

What a strange feeling
Looking out through the window
To see it snow up

[Heron TSG]

Haikus: very easy.
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

[Supercharazad]

Haikus: very easy.
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

First line has 6 syllables. Maybe:

Haikus: Quite easy

instead?

[Heron TSG]

Haiku: Quite easy.
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

First line has 6 syllables. Maybe:

Haikus: Quite easy

instead?

Well, gee, wouldn't that be redundant? I guess you must have read that wrong. Yes, yes, of course. Hrmf hrmf hrmf.