Good Haiku, However I personaly think Hiaku has a rhythm like this.



Also Good Haiku. However, I must point out haiku could be miss-understood sometimes as meaningless.

Because haiku is a kind of compressed poem, the reader must read between the line.

Famous Haiku poet "Matsuo Basho(family name first)" composed this haiku which is referred to by either of J.D. Salinger's novels.

古池や （ふるいけや;In a old Pond）
蛙とびこむ　（かわずとびこむ; Frogs jump）
水の音　（みずのおと; with sound of water）

When I read these haiku, I imagine a sceen. Haiku is a photograph of mind.
Reading haiku is like as de-cyphering. What do you imagine from this haiku?

Summer has come
Ah, my mother
You've gone so far away.

My mother died in summer two years ago. Summer comes every year and remind me of her.

Though these warm days
strange sceen in town
white masks on people

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Happy to be here!

I've been trying to figure out lately, how to write haikus - not sure yet about it. These are some of my atempts:


Here, too, somewhere,
hidden by the big, grey blocks,
the nightingale sings.


I do not miss now
the mountain, any longer –
concrete feels the same.


My weapons are lost,
buried by him, who always
moves lower than me.


DaisyMaria

these are not bad...

but haikus are 5,7,5.

Here's a 'haiku' by Buson:

"Pressing Sushi,
After a while,
A lonely feeling."

I think 4-4-5 is also a kind of haiku format isn't it? Might have a different name though.

And one by me:

Rinsing strawberries,
besides the summer flowers,
outside it's raining.

oh... I had only heard of a 5,7,5 one.

I hadn't heard of other ones either until someone told me about a really old kind of poetry that was only two lines and that from that other formations kind of were created. I don't know much about it though :)

I find it interesting to know there are other kinds.

I just did a quick google and found this site: Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Haiku and Senryu

and this one which adds on some stuff about a type of japanese poetry called 'Renga' http://library.thinkquest.org/C0126526/history.html

and of course, wiki has plenty to say on the subject: Japanese poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fuuu~ there's a lot more to Japanese poetry than just the haiku, that's for sure!