Haiku

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

I wonder, when this thread meets the maximum posts (how many posts is that again?), if the new one ought to be named Haiku and Senryu. Maybe even add Tanka.

Counted syllables,
sans kigo and kireji,
annoys the annoying!

 

[AlinaX]

a kill bill haiku?
and why not... that's quite a scene
to end a slaughter

 

[AlinaX]

I've often been told
the counting of syllables
is for amateurs

 

[Voboy]

The work is over
When it wants to be over.
No matter how long.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Meteor Hammer:
binary whirls of ruin;
Gogo's brutal sling

 

[Voboy]

Terminatoresque;
Nothing works, not blade nor fist.
Nail in a post? Sure.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Force unstoppable?
Somehow, Gogo had to go.
The nail did the trick.

 

[stickygirl]

Tried to read Gogol
Gogo has the same effect:
Hot bath, razor, pills

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Googled Gogol; learned
devil made him burn Dead Souls -
a practical joke.

 

[stickygirl]

Russian literature:
Long nights, slow springs, red blood spilled
Alas the wheat! Black wheat!

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Oh, Raskolnikov!
Alas, your guilty conscience
was your undoing.

 

[Voboy]

Russians. Many names.
Father's? Mother's? -kov? -vich? -ski?
Lotta syllables.

 

[AlinaX]

birch trees whipping by...
steel on steel in six eight time
and red caviar

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

A Russian phone book
in the Latin alphabet?
Lines of solid text

 

[UsuallyPresent]

Comparing languages
And acid washing eyeballs
Are about as much fun

 

[stickygirl]

Moscow Metro stops
Rich artistic decadence
Unreadable names

 

[Voboy]

Weird architecture.
Don't understand onion domes:
Not gothic enough.

 

[AlinaX]

we drank cheap champagne
and added pure ethanol
filtered from the lab

 

[Voboy]

Lofty goals, yes, but
How to extract ethanol
From such a cute dog?

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Dogs listen in fall
for the sound of the school bus
bringing home their kids.

 

[Voboy]

New school-bus culture.
Will they run at all, or not?
Another thing, lost.

 

[Voboy]

Lazy, sighing days.
Traffic oozes on the road.
Backyard is silent.

 

[SimonDoom]

Coffee and whiskey
Sun rising; jitters and haze
Chin up to the day

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

the touch of your lips -
like the electric sizzle
in the pre-storm air

 

[Voboy]

The thick smell of dust.
Oncoming summer rainstorms
Smell like that, to me.