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Title: Haiku discussion
Post by: bad bad leroy brown on May 22, 2003, 10:50 PM
You all know the rules:
Five, seven, five syllables.
Feel free to jump in.

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Summer's here: Great weather.
Need to get out of my house,
and enjoy outdoors.

News is getting slow,
Yes Osama bin Ladin
is back in the press.

How hard can it be
To find a six-foot arab
Without his kidnies?


Title: Re: Haiku discussion
Post by: Oz on May 25, 2003, 03:02 PM
I think this is a great idea, but I can't write one I'm really happy with. These two are the best I've come up with yet, but I'll try some more.


If tomorrow and
last week would be the same, then
today would tumble quickly.

Doubt and certainty
Could be metaphors for life
Just decide how to
Title: Re: Haiku discussion
Post by: bad bad leroy brown on May 26, 2003, 08:54 AM
O, I understand.
Poetic proficiency
doen't come easy.

Haikus are strange though.
Once you start its hard to stop.
All things in haiku.

On the phone: haiku.
Taco Bell order: haiku.
People start staring.
Title: Re: Haiku discussion
Post by: spacehound on May 27, 2003, 12:26 PM
Yes, Haiku moves me
Jack Kerouac did Haiku
Now I read his book

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 :P :-[ :-X :-/ :) :D >:(
 :) ;D :( :P :-X

Waking up so late
Summertime does this to me
I can't write Haiku