Post a HAIKU
 

This is kinda a play off of the post a poem thread... In English or Japanese...

くらい　そら
しずか　な　さけび
ぼく、　おちる

3 lines
17syllables
5;7;5

Gently the wind blew[5]
over the hills and mountains[7]
but to soon, it's gone[5]

Forum drama is
Nothing but hot air to most
Hit the ignore, please.

Here's one that I wrote over a year ago. It's called Vivid.

Luck within my reach
Injustice and cowardice
End my vivid dream

Here's a poem a made in the cafeteria at lunch time. Their food sucks...

Oh no, it's lunch time!
I gag as the food goes down.
Nothing else to eat...

Five, seven, then five
Syllabals mark a Haiku
Remarkable Oaf

:mtongue: Didn't write that mahself...I don't take credit.

I think haiku
are pointless but I had
to participate

Haiku are easy
but sometimes don't make sense
refrigerator

3 Haiku...

My Only Sunshine"

I live underground.
You are my only sunshine,
And I am a worm.


"Like a bird in flight."

Like a bird in flight,
Carried by the wind to the sun,
My feathers are singed.


"Twinkle"

I was very sad
When I looked up and realized
I could count the stars.

:o

行き過ぎて Yuki sugi te (After passed by)
振り返って見る Furikaette miru (Looking back to)
君の家 Kimi no Ie (Your house)

With Some reason, He can not visit his girlfriend(to be)'s house. Then he pretend to be not interested in her house, passed by and look back to her house.

Let's get some more Japanese ones (perferably without translations)

yep.. well, that summed that up :)

All for Japanese ones, but how are people who don't speak Japanese going to fully enjoy them without translations? Come on, don't be so elitist <3

thats true, and i don't know japanese i feel so lame.Dx

but your awesome Buck.xD

Why?

I think most of people here can not understand it without tramslation.

Please note that HAIKU must have KIGO (季語; word to indicate a season) as a strict definition.

If the 5-7-5 format sentence has no KIGO, it is called as SENRYU (川柳).

I think it is no problem to call all 5-7-5 format as HAIKU because it can have international definition.

Ah, I am new to this. Please don't mind me.

Lovers

Sensuality,
Passion inflames the senses.
Such earthly delights.

Sorry, I didn't mean post ONLY Japanese Haiku's...but I enjoy translating them :| Sorry, that was a pretty selfish post

Hey well I'm slowly working on my Japanese so hopefully I'll be able to understand them one day too :D

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

Hi, everyone :) , this is my first post on this forum.

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!

Heres a random haiku I just came up with on the spot:
The sky is crying
Please, tell me, why won't you smile?
Sky, are you so sad?

I am he at peace,
Left fulfilled and enlightened.
The Shadows brighten.:) :o :rheart:

Fuc* this shit off, man,
My wife won't let me alone,
What the fu*k to do?

... Is this poetry really any good? A "Haiku" seems to have no rythym or structure...

dir tee ro bot na
summer's hot na na na na
dir tee ro bot jan!