haikus

[ratsprayer]

post your favourite haiku (that you wrote or otherwise) here:



here's an original


mr boombastic
easiest haiku ever
simply fantastic

[dragonboy]

mr boombastic
easiest haiku ever
simply fantastic

I would say you've already won Dave! What a classic  ;D

[tomEisenbraun]

NASCAR is a sport
merchandising tells me so
i ain't need syllables to write me a damn haiku

(bored in high school English class)

[TEO]

Noodlin' Hippies,
dance under the Vermont sky,
free themselves from dull.

My Morning Jacket,
frees me from my daily chores,
raise my spirit high.

All Good first Toubab,
blew me away like a storm,
out of Africa.

[rugbird]

Oh! Glorious morning
 of coffee and herb
please do not disturb.

[ycartrob]

elf in the river
did deliver a quiver
finding the bottom

[ycartrob]

 dad in oregon
could not donate an organ
liked captain morgan

[ycartrob]

my friend roger smith
with an axe and cleaning can
owes night a reason

[tomEisenbraun]

walls painted off-white
leaves me feeling not quite right
please pause my nausea

[tomEisenbraun]

crescent moon waxing
unsuspecting motorists
laughter and buttocks

[ratsprayer]

haikus are real cool
but they don't always make sense
refrigerator

[tomEisenbraun]

business in the front
and never the two shall meet
party in the back

[EC]

i love haiku.  so much.  one of my favourites is in my profile just to your left.
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i've probably mentioned this a billion times around here, but a few years back i got really interested in haiku when i was creating a proposal for a theatre research project.  i learned that haiku came from this game called renga that, ages and ages ago, young zen monks (the badass ones) played during school.  it was a poetry game where one person would write a section, pass it on, etc.  there were all kinds of rules, and they were ever-changing.  one of the things that remained the same throughout, though, was that a new game of renga began with a hakku, a 5-7-5 form that eventually broke free and took it's own form and became the haiku.  another rule is that there always has to be some indication of a season in the haiku, and that can be shown even through something as simple as mentioning a certain kind of flower that only blooms in a certain season, or what have you.  the 5-7-5 form is pretty specific to japanese language structure and idioms, so a lot of translations, in trying to keep closer to the actual meaning, will not use the 5-7-5 because it takes away from what the original haiku meant.  and other people think it's such an inherent part of the structure that it must be followed in all languages.

anyhow, that's what i know about haiku.
my first favourite haiku author is issa, and my second favourite is basho.

[MarkW]

I like Basho.  This is a famous one, but still good:

An old pond,
A frog jumps in,
The sound of water.

Sometimes changed to:

An old pond,
A frog jumps in,
Splash!

Although the original Japanese apparently used three distinct ideograms for the last line, so it's perhaps a bit of a cheat.

My effort goes thusly:

Summer's arriving;
Jim, sensing the season's change,
Cuts off his long hair