I read a great poem over at AntiBarbies blog about a misguided internet lover boy, in the comments I saw someone had made a condensed version so I added my own version even more condensed as a Haiku, AntiBarbie made her own and someone added another one later.
They’re great fun, especially when people add their own in response to yours, someone responds to that one and so on.. It could be a good game to play. Here’s a bit of Haiku background..
A Haiku is a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
I first found out about them in the book Shogun which my best friend Diego gave to me, it was an awesome book and it filled my days with wonderful daydreams and was the first book to make me really pissed off when a major character died. It had quite a few Haiku poems in it’s pages. Times when a warrior was about to die and there’d be just enough time to compose a death poem. How composing a Haiku in an extreme moment can give you a moment of Zen and so on.
They can be quite poignant and I like to make ones with 3,5 and 3 syllables. Diego has a talent for making poems and he has made a good Haiku or two so I thought we should have some Haiku poems here. They’re easy to make and great fun.
Here’s one from me..
Writing my own blog,
to wonder of the reader
did they understand?
in 3,5,3 format
Windy night
tomorrow the same
maybe more
They can even be funny, here’s a few from the internets
The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
(source)
Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
(source)
You must scratch me there!
Yes, above my tail!
Behold, elevator butt.
(source)
Hehe, I like cat ones, here’s my old cat before I moved to an apartment..
actually, if he still lived with me he’d be sit on my shoulder and say ,
readin yer poem
U can haz make won for me?
ok thankya bye
What can you come up with? sling me a Haiku in the comments why don’t you….
05.12.07 1:54 am
Ha-ha-ha!
Looks like your rockin’
Andy’s got the best haikus
Will you ever stop?
Oh no no
haiku bug’s goin’
round and round
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#105.12.07 1:55 am
Hey, I want to edit my crazy haikus. No edit feature no more?
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#205.12.07 2:33 am
Love this post
about poetry.
Haiku rocks!
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#305.12.07 5:21 am
I myself have written only two haikus till date (in hindi language) I will try to write something to comment on this post… hope I succeed.
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#405.12.07 9:01 am
Here’s a shot at the 3,5,3 format:
I write posts
At my blog Fresh Geeks
Do you blog?
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#505.12.07 11:46 am
sharon: thanks for your poem! .. I think the edit comments is working, I can still click on them and edit..
antibarbie: nice one!
jalaj: I’m looking forward to seeing it
jblu: short and to the point, nice.
thank you for writing
#6they read so well in comments
maybe more will come
05.12.07 1:02 pm
hehe, this is fun to read. But I can’t do haiku type things so I’m not even going to try. Yeah, I know…spoilsport.
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#705.12.07 8:50 pm
Join new social-network
I hope you find me
finish the puzzle
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#805.12.07 8:58 pm
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#906.12.07 9:41 am
I really suck
Haiku making is indeed hard
Is this okay?
My lame attempt in haiku!
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#1006.12.07 9:48 am
@Sharon – You don’t need Editing but additions. More haikus please!
@Andy – Since how long you have been writing Haiku? I liked all in the post as well as the one in the comments.
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#1106.12.07 11:00 am
@claire: you were so close with your comment, you could have chopped off a few words and come up with
this is fun to read
I can’t do haiku things
i wont even try
@edward: nicely done!
#12@Charley Boy: that’s really good, a new 4,8,4 format.
@jalaj: I haven’t made many, it’s not like I’m a professional Haiku poet or anything!
07.12.07 12:10 am
ooh, I’m nearly clever, would ya look at that!
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#1307.12.07 7:58 pm
A haiku is fun
but there must be no more than
seventeen syllab…..
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#1407.12.07 8:04 pm
RAC: hah! funniest one yet… doublelol!
#1511.01.08 2:07 am
The wind in the east
The moons shade reveals our path
Darkness lost its way
I no guyz its horrible but it was a 3 sec thing rofl.
#1611.01.08 12:52 pm
A faint cry unheard……….. » very nice!
#1707.10.08 6:24 pm
late showers falling
#18tiny blossoms open and
greet the new warm sun
16.10.08 10:43 pm
nice!
so many to see
#19in public and the net
all anonymous
18.10.08 11:47 pm
cool.
posted last year
been quite a while since then
another comment?
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#2004.02.09 12:25 pm
Thanks for such a nice collection of poem my small children love this poem.
#21I gave them they will be happy to read it.