Give us your Haiku

[frg001]

I was reading some Haiku earlier, and it stirred my creative juices... So I thought I would start a thread for anyone to post their efforts...
In case you didn't know, Haiku is Japanese poetry that ought to be 5-7-5 syllables - (I say ought as I have found much that does not follow this)
Here's my first effort...


Look into the stars
The root of our existance
We try to find truth

 

[frg001]

Come on someone

I started a thread
To stir imagination
And no-one replied

 

[windcarver]

here's one:

oh those bumbly clouds
your subtle sense of humor
mocks all our worries.

 

[Nehustan]

Here is one I cowrote with a reader from Cambridge University and was published in a poetry magazine.

The Shadow is a kite,
The wind...
...cannot lift it.

 

[frg001]

here's one:

oh those bumbly clouds
your subtle sense of humor
mocks all our worries.

excellent...
Oh and that signature... I was just saying exactly that to a vegan friend of mine...weird.

 

[standing_alone]

Now, this is going to be the best freakin' haiku you've all ever read:

Haircuts are so bad
Scissors are very scary
Where did my ear go?

 

[Nehustan]

Here is one I cowrote with a reader from Cambridge University and was published in a poetry magazine.

The Shadow is a kite,
The wind...
...cannot lift it.

Actually to conform to traditional structure maybe I should render it....

The Shadow is a kite, the...
...wind cannot lift it.

 

[Nehustan]

OMG!!!! I just googled and its actually online...that's sooooo coooolllllll.

"An article on collaborative haiku, featuring poet Mario Petrucci offers

The shadow is a kite—the wind cannot lift it

written with Jaime Wood"​

http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg031.htm​

 

[nutshell]

Traditionally, haiku should also include elements of nature that provoke an emotional response. I have a group of 5 haiku I've written and have submitted to a publisher. There are written in both Japanese and English. I should hear back any time. Wish me luck!

 

[Omer]

here goes:

Tooki kuni
Hisame furiyuku--
Madobe no ko

In a country far away
A small girl by the window
Winter rain is showering.

I had help from a japanese friend with the japanese version, i can't say the english version follows the syllable rule much. Here, the season word is "hisame" (chilly rain).

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

splintered consciousness

groping for wholeness and truth

religion revealed​

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[frg001]

Silence, winter nights
Thoughts shuffling inside my head
What is it we are?

 

[dawny0826]

Can someone refresh me on the "rules"? I'm really digging the haiku.

 

[frg001]

Can someone refresh me on the "rules"? I'm really digging the haiku.

heh. Its (in english) 5 syllables, then 7, then 5. I guess if its a translation then you can break that...

And as nutshell rightly says there ought to be a nature aspect. I think it's nature that relates to a season..such as cherry blossom, or snowdrop...but 5-7-5 will do

 

[standing_on_one_foot]

Can not stay away
From this infernal website.
Homework, who needs it?

or, if I must include nature...

Spring returns again,
The sun is shining outside.
I'm indoors, typing.

 

[frg001]

Beauty is fleeting
The near ageless universe
renders us nothing

 

[frg001]

just been out, drinking
Smoked a little cannabis
Chilled now, need to sleep