Haiku Lovers

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

Once read something like this: Poetry is not meant to be understood, but rather responded to....

The same could be said for haiku?

Nice, kinda like those words in your sig.

 

[Mac2383]

Nice, kinda like those words in your sig.

Yes, thank you; and like the words of your name.....

 

[Esperanza_Hidalgo]

Yes, thank you; and like the words of your name.....

I've never read her (or him?), but have heard that the words from this writer are very special.

 

[vrosej10]

Once read something like this: Poetry is not meant to be understood, but rather responded to....

The same could be said for haiku?

Yes, you are supposed to have an aha! moment when you read one. It should make your hair stand on end with its clarity. A good haiku should end up being something much larger than itself; it should induce a larger thought, be open ended. The best haiku should say one thing and imply much more.

 

[Mac2383]

very good

do u have an "aha..." one for me?
i supose some of them might give u a moment of satori?
Like that "plop!" one with the frog jumping into the water...

Yes, you are supposed to have an aha! moment when you read one. It should make your hair stand on end with its clarity. A good haiku should end up being something much larger than itself; it should induce a larger thought, be open ended. The best haiku should say one thing and imply much more.

 

[sweepthefloor]

Fitness

seventy one hours
of your fitness to feel my
hotness all over you

*the hours of fertility

 

[sweepthefloor]

Vulnerable

I put on a skirt
As you wanted me to do
Me vulnerable

The skirt is too long
Bloody lips and blushing cheeks
I tripped and fell down

 

[mynameisben]

Spring belabors five.
Summer heaves up seven more.
Haiku season. Rah.

 

[glynndah]

Spring belabors five.
Summer heaves up seven more.
Haiku season. Rah.

I hear haikus are tastiest when they're in season, too.

 

[butters]

a haiku is more than the sum of its syllables

 

[bronzeage]

Sweet olive perfume
breezes keep my eyes awake
keeping you with me.

Photographic smiles
and letters fade in the night
when I catch your scent.

I inhale, holding
my breath hoping to keep you
inside forever.

Captured in my lungs,
throat closed, face in the pillow,
air seems less needed.

 

[glynndah]

Too many cookies.
I put one back in the jar.
I feel virtuous.

 

[bronzeage]

Virtuous lady,
cookies exist only to
frustrate your diet.

 

[glynndah]

carrots, crunchy, sweet
and orange but not as good as
a dark chocolate

 

[butters]

lovely little shorts, but i think it'd be misleading to not mention these are not haiku

here's a link worth looking at about the subject, for definitions, examples, and discussions

http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm

 

[bronzeage]

lovely little shorts, but i think it'd be misleading to not mention these are not haiku

here's a link worth looking at about the subject, for definitions, examples, and discussions

http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm

Upon translation
into the Japanese tongue
they fit perfectly

 

[sweepthefloor]

i need a dictionary

My mind made you up / Ideal is a concept, strange / Not on my word list

 

[glynndah]

Upon translation
into the Japanese tongue
they fit perfectly

When I write haikus,
I have to count on my fing-
ers. Rats! That is eight!

A from the good little witch.

 

[bronzeage]

When I write haikus,
I have to count on my fing-
ers. Rats! That is eight!

A from the good little witch.

The endless debate,
haikuesque or not haiku
goes on forever

Is is worse to be
unhaiku by the counting,
or never written

 

[mynameisben]

Here's one my computer wrote just this afternoon:

Zero zero one
One zero zero zero
One zero one one

 

[glynndah]

Here's one my computer wrote just this afternoon:

Zero zero one
One zero zero zero
One zero one one

Quite eloquent!

 

[glynndah]

A from the good little witch.

 

[butters]

Upon translation
into the Japanese tongue
they fit perfectly

i wish i understood japanese. it'd be cool to read them in their natural form

 

[sweepthefloor]

My brain is bigger
Than the dick I thought I had
I only want you

 

[bronzeage]

i wish i understood japanese. it'd be cool to read them in their natural form

Alas, poor haiku
Lost at poetic readings
who can even tell