The daily Haiku thread

recently tried to get into a routine of writing 1 Haiku a day...hasn't worked out too well, so hopefully this thread will inspire not only myself to keeping her lit

if you're new to Haiku's generally the most accepted English way of doing them is to structure it into 3 lines with 17 syllables divided between the lines - 5, 7, 5. Usually a haiku is inspired from day to day things that catch your eye - tending to be written in a more objective rather than subjective view point.

i'm rather new to it, so i'm sure there's a few members here who are seasoned veterans?

so for example:

water drops, ripples (5 syllables)
bodies huddle together, (7 syllables)
sounds of calm around (5 syllables)

neat site for counting syllables: http://www.wordcalc.com/

I'm really really good at haikus

Going to the bank

This gloomy Friday morning

Heck yeah free cookies

Exai was playing

As I sat on the train home

I smiled a bit

What is IDM?

Cup defined it long ago

You should read the rules

I went to the bus

then I went home, yes I did

now I am watemm

I done a meta-haiku:

Here is a haiku

This line has seven syllables

This one only has five

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:20 PM, mcbpete said:

I done a meta-haiku:

 

Here is a haiku

This line has seven syllables

This one only has five

I think that's eight...

turned on the tv

changed the station because was bored

forgot to go out

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:22 PM, Aserinsky said:

 

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:20 PM, mcbpete said:

I done a meta-haiku:

 

Here is a haiku

This line has seven syllables

This one only has five

I think that's eight...

 

 

Top tip - Unlike what's suggested in the original post, don't use wordcalc

OK lets try again:

Here is haiku two

This has seven syllables

This one only has five

The first two lines are supposed to be pulled together by the last. It isn't supposed to be some chronological account of your banal existence.

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:27 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:22 PM, Aserinsky said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:20 PM, mcbpete said:

I done a meta-haiku:

Here is a haiku
This line has seven syllables
This one only has five

I think that's eight...

 

Damnit so it is. That's what you get for using wordcalc
Top tip - Unlike what's suggested in the original post, don't use wordcalc

Who uses a syllable calculator to count 17 syllables? That's what asians are for.

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:27 PM, mcbpete said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:22 PM, Aserinsky said:

 

  On 3/22/2013 at 6:20 PM, mcbpete said:

I done a meta-haiku:

 

Here is a haiku

This line has seven syllables

This one only has five

I think that's eight...

 

Damnit so it is. That's what you get for using wordcalc

Top tip - Unlike what's suggested in the original post, don't use wordcalc

 

OK lets try again:

 

Here is haiku two

This has seven syllables

This one only has five

That last one has six.

Am shit at haikus,

Am shit at syllable counts.

Damn it all to hell.

Palms wave in the wind,

People shuffle by and watch,

Slaves to eachother.

Haiku count morae, not syllables. There are also many haiku that don't follow the 5-7-5 system.

swiiisssh

car drives by

walking all alone

this haiku is

not following the rules

innovation

rolling a fat blunt

got my drink and music on

weekend begins now

  On 3/22/2013 at 7:06 PM, chimera slot mom said:

Haiku count morae, not syllables. There are also many haiku that don't follow the 5-7-5 system.

 

swiiisssh

car drives by

walking all alone

ya ya - aware of this, however it seems for the general ease of things following the hugely wrong English method is best

besides, Haiku's are a distinctively Japanese thing. Its silly to think we can do them exactly the same except translated to English. So why not just try the English method, and make it a whole new thing with the same basic principles of simplifying yet maintaining beauty and wonder. .

Read new Exai thread

"I think I get Oversteps"

commence rolling lol

walk beer from the store

two windows crack to ask me

can i get one bro?

lol

i do love willies

willies willies willies oh

some monster willies

my cat kneads my lap

gets me very excited

i'm about to cum

every day i say

don't be bad like my bad dad

(plea to me to be)

unfortunately

you will hate what taught you hate

and all it holds dear

if you shit your pants

you'll be banned from taco night

that means you, buddy

laying in my bed

listen to stars of the lid

lurking on watmm