The Haiku Thread
 

I don't think there's been a Haiku thread so far. They could just as well fit in the poetry thread, but I think is better to make them into a whole new section.
I feel haikus are different than poems because, aside from the minimalist form of writing, while a poem must be pondered about deeply before the diamond in the rough begins to sparkle, a haiku just comes to you, and you feel it is a haiku.

Here's an example of a Haiku that came to me, and inspired this thread:


That which is not dead
Can never rest merrily
But can love instead.

Oh, I love haikus! I don't write many, but I love to read them.

I don't know that poems have to be thought of too much before they take shape. I've written a few that just seemed to flow write out of my pencil without any conscious though and voila. But then again, for everyone one poem like that, I've written maybe ten others that took a lot of thought...

this is a haiku,
It's on a computer screen,
I like this haiku.

I can't write haikus.
They run from my pad and pen.
Oh wait, here one comes.

^ = random attempt at haiku writing.

I hate this homework
It is horribly boring
I wish it could die.

*curtsies*

Hahaha, funny stuff.:D

My fat panda walks
It's bow bounces and wiggles
It must be hungry.

Thank you, I now must make random and horrible haikus. Yet it is fun. Now I see why my friend loves to make random stupid ones out of the names Phillip and and his own name. O.o

We should make a funny haiku thread in the general section.:D

This essay is mad
Aristotle must die slow
while i burn Oedipus.

yes. i have a very good streak now on my hatred of the classical works. and old greek philosophers *sp*

Aristotle sucks
while Oedipus Rex blows
why must I read this?

Sounds like a good plan to me!

Oh essay of hell
why must you torment me so
i feel so morose.

*did i get the definition right on that last word*

I grieve for Wilson
she died grading this essay
for it was ghastly.

Once upon a time
There was a faerie princess.
My haiku now ends.

How does one tell tales
With such great limitations?
Wow, this is so fun!

And now I see that
Haikus make bad faerie tales
Wow, that's depressing.

oh say can you see
this mighty deathblow of hell
i die here and now

There's a teenager
who loathes writing these
horrible papers

I think that most teens
Do not like to write horrible
Essays of doom

And so I am not
Surprised to hear you fall in
This category

Oh, hopeless papers
That school assigns to us:
Please, just go away

these papers hate me
i read and read they don't leave
i cry all alone

Furry, squirrelly things
Will take over the whole world:
I will lead them on.

As the sun soon sets,
Ever should light shine again,
Is, till then, darkness.

I wrote a good one about marching band a couple of years ago, but I have since lost it :(

Here's mine for the day:

Apes are int'resting
Is it so hard to believe
That we once were them?

Actually, it's a misunderstanding >_> Darwin never said we came from apes, he said we came from apelike animals :x

Watching you,
As you lay dyiing,
My heart bled with yours.

You lack the system of haiku :(

It is 5-7-5 in most cases.
Yours is 3-5-5

You may not be the only one who has done this, but I caught it easily just by reading it.

Watching you dying,
On the grassy knolls of pyre,
My heart bled with yours.

Too restrictive but fun nonetheless, Pyre is an imaginary land where the elves, goblins and trolls dwell.

You are mine to kill,
and I shall do it slowly,
Now where is my drill?

Good job ^^ Too bad someone deleted my post :-/ I don't see why.

Lost, at a distance,
Smoking on a cigarette,
Then you came along.

I fell deep into,
melancholy dreams of you,
never to awake.

On the wet pavement,
I saw a snail slithering,
as I did, yourself.

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All day and all night,
I dream of ways to kill you,
Is that so evil?

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Life is rapidly,
fading away into naught,
faster, I begged you.

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In the moonlit night,
voices to me they whispered,
join us or begone.

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Betrayal leaves me,
in pain and mental anguish,
I'm dying inside.

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Fuck your fake chatter,
Jump off a cliff, why dont you?
And drown in the sea.

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Is all this even Haiku or am I ignorant of some fundamental rule? Someone else want to post anything?

Those are correct uses of the haiku style, yes. The only real difference between these and true haiku is the fact that haiku was used to express one's self through allusions to nature. But, that is not mandatory. As long as the haiku form is used, it can be considered accordingly.

This takes little skill
writing something very short
to elicit feelings.