Haiku

[mercian billman]

I was wondering if anybody besides myself is into haiku, amongst the people I associate with I am the only person who writes haiku, in fact until I brought the subject up half the people didn't even know what haiku is.

Anyway's for those who don't know haiku is a form of poetry in which the writer composes three line stanzas where the first and third lines contain 5 syllabels and the second contains 7. There's other rules listed here http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm#comego

I always follow the 5-7-5 and I really don't bother with the rest since some rules are contradictory and it's my poetry so I figure I can write it pretty much any way I want. That being said I try to write haiku that relates to my life or thoughts, I find it's good way to put on paper in a nice organized manner that isn't to time consuming.

Anyways the point of this thread is to write haiku, so to get the ball rolling I have one of my own,

Boredom

An average day
Maybe action will occur
But there is nothing

[Beirut]

I don't understand
The depth of this art form
But do it I will

[Rodion Romanovich]

Spam not the frontroom,
or Beirut with axe will come,
the thread he'll close

+1

[Avicenna]

Don't spam the frontroom
Or Beirut's axe will appear
Eager for some action

Oh dear that was bad
I guess it my first one
At least, in the org

[Beirut]

Poetry is good
Chocolate is better though
So speaks an Orgster

[Rodion Romanovich]

haiku with a rhyme,
is even better way of
spending your dear time

[Kralizec]

What is this about?
I see it is about poetry
that wich I suck at

[Crazed Rabbit]

Washington

It rains again, pouring
why does nature punish us
west of the Cascades?

Mount and Blade

I hack, slash, kill
But, woe! The mind is willing
the hardware is weak

Garden Raiding

I like carrots, Orange
delicious, and filling, but
warily I trod


Crazed Rabbit

All rights reserved

[Byzantine Prince]

Spammeth thus for me
for the axe is sharp
and woodkiller free.

[Drisos]

Times come and times go,
But some things don't fade away.
I'll be by your side.

[macsen rufus]

Rainbow haiku

to see the rainbow
above this grey horizon
i stand in the rain

[Ianofsmeg16]

Penguin Glides like fish,
Then hits head on big iceberg,
now he is dead...ish?

[Togakure]

A couple of weeks ago I bought my first book on Haiku history/composition. I've been dabbling with haiku for years, but never really understood it beyond the 5-7-5 thing mentioned earlier here (btw: the Japanese sense of rhythm in speech doesn't equate to syllables per se, so strict 5-7-5 is not required).

Very simply put: Capture an experience in words, with the intent of conveying to a reader what you were feeling. Haiku is not an "intellectual" exercise, not simply a clever play on words.

I wrote this one quite some time ago when I was very darkly depressed. I looked in on my beloved goddaughter sleeping late at night, and I felt better for a brief moment:

Breath, rising, falling
at play in a field of dreams
candle in the night

(btw: a "good" haiku requires no explanation)

This one expresses a very different experience/emotion:

Vile satisfaction
as hopeless eyes surrender
the Light of Life fades

These are just wannabe haikus, but better than most of the others I've written in the past. Perhaps in time I'll find a groove.