Life’s been a bit hectic of late. And blogging finds itself slipping down the list of priorities. Looking in my notebook I see that I haven’t written many poems over the last few weeks. I’ve been mainly sorting and editing – primarily for a new book of children’s poems due out next year sometime. Whilst doing that I noticed I’ve written a lot of haikus over the last couple of years. So I thought I might include a few here. Meanwhile – if you feel inspired to write a haiku of your own - seventeen syllables arranged 5, 7, 5 - be my guest.
Mirror Haiku
Look in the mirror
What do you see, pussy cat?
I see a lion.
Wind Haiku
The wind shakes the school
Like the beat of a dragon’s wing
On a dark night
Seaside Haiku
Five crows sit on the beach
Seven seagulls skim the surf
Five crabs set a trap
Long Word Haiku
What's the meaning of
Antidisestablishmentarianism?
Crow Haiku
one, two, three, four, five
accumulating darkness
crow keeps his counsel
Tension Haiku
There is a tension
As bees and beetles struggle
On the pool’s surface
Death Cycle Haiku
Rushing down the hill
A bicycle.
A beetle
Fails to cross the road
Sit Dog Haiku
Sit, sit, sit dog, sit
Good boy, sit, go on, sit, sit
Sit, sit, sit, sit,
Please…
Haiku Fest
If I read just one
more haiku I swear I’ll go
nuts
47 comments:
I shall blow my nose
Sounds of trumpets fill the air
Get ready to charge!
"Tits like cocoanuts",
The cheeky market man cried.
"Birds love my fat balls!"
Lovely, Michael. Those two haikus moved me.
I knew you'd be impressed
With my wizardry and wit
How clever I am!
I must go and have a lie down!
dear excellence known as roger stevens.
you are much funs on any given day.
Hurrah.
Thanks LBV
Michael, your penultimate haiku seems to have one too many syllables in it. And your last one - only 8 in total - although I liked the idea of lying down. No doubt to help you think of another haiku.
Its always fun to come by your blog! Lovely stuff! Really loved the wind haiku :)
Haiku is much fun,
especially when its yours,
write on, just write on!
If it's laughter you're
after you're in the right place
nothing serious
Michael lies down, prone
To sleep perhaps to dream of
Haikus nevermore
Roger, I can count
Michael seems to follow form
Where is the problem?
Hey - some great haikus. Keep 'em coming folks!
Well, Jonathan - "I knew you'd be impressed" makes six syllables by my count. Weird 'cos I happen to know that Michael got a first-class homours degree in Advanced Mathmatics.
... and homours degrees are very difficult tro come by!
Correct, Roger there
is one to many sylab-
les in that poem.
(sorry... didn't guess that was an Haiku)
in-spi-red, i am
here goes my first ever haiku
what do u say, Roger
nice blog, feel free to drop by anytime!
Some of the best haiku I've read so far on any of the blogs. Love the bicycle/beetle - squash, squash.
Essay blues Haiku
too many essays
to write haikus or even
the little known Lowku
Excited and Incohearent Haiku
Yipee I got my
letter today!!!!! thank-you ve-
ry, squeek much Roger.
PS Haven't burnt anything yet but the evening is young. So I will avoid cookers, drink wine and smile a lot.
PPS. This is not a Haiku a Lowku or a snucaku
PPPS Long word Haiku is my favourite closely followed by sit dog, I may read it to our dog
Mr. Roger..
Hi..its always nice to get comments from you with ur usual wit & wisdom..
this Haiku stuff...amazing..how do u think so innovative way esp. the way you write ur poetry...great stuff..
hope no body can make fool on 1st april..
Roy
I had to remove that last post due to my spilling mistukes.
Haikus - keep 'em coming folks. I wonder if those ancient and venerable Japanese scholars who wrote haikus realised that they could be so much fun?
Playing at a gig tonight - Damn Right I Got the Blues - someone's wedding. Should be fun. Then a free weekend. Hurrah! I might even write a new poem.
Daffodils nodding
Gardener's plodding along
Oh !a rake headache!
April comes but once
A year to play tricks again
On unsuspecting poets
My dog's got no nose
How does it smell without one?
Pretty damned awful!
Archie hanging snails
Up in tiny treetop capsules
Experiments, he said
i was going to have a go but having seen michaels genius in full bloom thought better of it
What were they thinking
When they developed this form?
Not English, I'm sure...
Gardener's Haiku
Compost on rhubarb?
I prefer custard on mine
He said, laughing
This post is so much fun! I loved reading through all the haikus. Great Idea RS. I've never really written a haiku before, so I'm guessing at the rules, but I'll give it a go.
My brain is fried
at work I'm tied
soon the day will end.
Ok, I don't think that was one.
Let me try another:
woops, my boss is back, gotta go...
next time.
never really tried PROPER haiku before. just did what i usually do and did it my way which was very much the wrong way.
teacher roger...is this a haiku?...
i dream of tar
shiny black ribbon road
hedges trimmed green
if it isn't, what i have i done wrong? and if its right can i have my first house point please?
Hey, some great blogs everyone. Especially Michael - who will come down with haikuitis if he's not careful!
I'm off on my hols for a few days. Back on Sunday. Keep the haikus coming in.
Or how about some tankas? The tanka actually predates the haiku.
It's five lines and the syllable count is -
5
7
5
7
7
The last two lines "answer or reply in some way to the first three.
See you all soon.
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Hazel in garden
Crouched on the concrete pathway
Wire brushing a brick
Oil Tanka
After the veg curry
I strain the oil through funnel
Found at jumble sale
Who would think poppadums could
Use up so much rancid fat
Wow, Hazel I like
that one. What do you do with
so much rancid oil ?
(hasn't graduated to Tonka, yet)
It wasnt rancid really Jonathan but I needed a word that didnt rhyme with funnel!
I would be very interested in purchasing your book when it comes out. I'm founder of Today's Woman Writing community, you should check it out. No, it isn't just for women. LOL
I wouldn't think it
was rancid, just used. Worthy
to be used again.
Delightful...esp Mirror Haiku
My ukulele
Strums a song of the islands
Canvey and the Dogs!
Milk Tanka
Drinka Pinta Milk
I remember that old ad
From many years ago
These days I prefer soya
In my my morning cuppa
Drat! Cross out the "from".
And the second "my"! I think i am dyslexic you know.
i guess that einstein
would have made a great tanka
some sort of poet
he always had math on mind
even though a scruffy git
Great stuff everyone.
Things quietening down a bit. Mum not coming to visit after all. So hopefully get some new blog up - and visit a few fellow bloggers.
Keep the faith.
A Second
When sacred banyan
clips the moon, and stealthy as
a summer breeze; a
golden flash-and striped with doom
Tiger melts into the grass
Good to see people enjoying haiku -you know not many 'haiku poets' write in 575 in english - there being more to them than counting...
seasonal word/phrase, a cut,...
but its fun to work the syllables from time to time...
here's an old one in 575
nearly mother's day
my best daffodils bent low
in the constant rain
would love to hear you play sometime roger!
LO
Tension haiku!
tension headache
different bees work
the lavender bush
The Haiku Calendar 2004
Snapshots Press ISBN 1-903543-07-X
Simply Haiku: September 2003, Vol. 1, No. 3
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