haikus for a friday afternoon ...

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haikus for a friday afternoon ...

By MrSmith1 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 5:45pm |

I think I've shared some of my haikus here before. I've recently started working with a photographer I know to put some images and haikus together for a book proposal.

I used to write haikus just as a warm-up exercise for my other writing, now I write at least a couple of haikus a day just to post on twitter and facebook for my friends and my own amusement. Almost all of these haikus were all written in the last week or two.

haiku: "walking through the woods,

I find a weathered birdhouse,

nailed onto a tree."

haiku: "If you've loved and lost,
You know hearts will never heal,
'til they love again."

haiku: "Lock the cellar door!
There's a MONSTER lurking there!
(My sister says so.)

haiku: "the arc of each life,
pierces many hearts, which sews
tapestries of hope."

haiku: "he expects to learn,
through obtuse introspection ...
(it will take a while.)"

haiku: "When you withhold love,
Your link to all souls withers,
And your life force dims."

haiku: "Winking at strangers,
With whom you come face-to-face,
Might just make their day."

haiku: You think you've won, BUT ...
Like the phoenix from ashes,
I shall rise again!"

haiku: "Saw a sign today,
That said 'Stand Up MRIs'
Comedy x-rays?"

haiku: "Where-ever you go,
You'll never find a light that,
Shines as bright as home."

haiku: "Whispering biddies,
Sitting in their parlour chairs,
Can, sometimes be right."

haiku: "What, she asked, is Hope?
Hope's the thing that blossoms,
From seeds of despair."

tanka haiku: "Yes, you know my heart,
For we are kindred spirits,
Walking the same path.
But stay wary, my friend, for
Paths, like lover's hearts, may turn."

haiku: "Where do you get off,
I mean seriously, where?
The corner okay?"

haiku: "So, the years went by,
He didn't feel old, but then
He lived in the past."

haiku: "She laughed wickedly.
Such a chill went up his spine,
that he sneezed ice cubes

haiku: Yesterday, I saw
A man with an umbrella,
Jogging through the park."

tanka haiku: "Will you take my hand?
Will you walk with me awhile?
Will you be my love?
Questions must fly through the air,
Answers may come through actions."

haiku: "In a wooden box,
hidden in her portmanteau,
Was poor Portman's toe."

haiku: "If we just pretend,
Life's filled with happy times, we'd
never light candles

haiku: "He was mesmerized,
by her stunning beauty and,
how sweetly she laughed."

haiku: "Her deepest regret,
Was that she'd let him go, and
now he won't come back."

haiku: "They shared common goals,
Joined forces and worked as one,
And never looked back."

tanka haiku: "While waiting on line,
He slowly peeled an orange,
And then, he ate it.
The line did not move at all,
Until his third banana."

haiku: "Fridays after work,
She'd really let her hair down,
And would dance till dawn."

haiku: "Now he understood,
All the stories in his head,
Needed to be told."

haiku: "It does not add up,
That the way to multiply,
Is through division."

haiku: "Sitting in his room,
Pondering his hopes and dreams,
He soon fell asleep."

haiku: "All one ever knows,
Is what they've experienced,
Or taken on faith.
But, like silt in riverbeds,
Both can muddy the water."

haiku: "After the rainstorm,
The Neon lights shimmered in
Street corner puddles."

haiku: "Flung 'cross space and time,
Echoing through centuries,
Landing on the moon."

haiku: "In a storefront church,
A young girl began to sing,
And the angels wept."

haiku: "I am quite in awe
of the lives that have touched mine
Each brought a lesson."

haiku: "Windows to our souls,
Eyes may behold the world, but
Minds create vision."

haiku: "Across that river,
Lies the land where dreams still thrive,
Help me build a bridge."

haiku: "A gigg'ling toddler,
plays 'soccer' on the sidewalk,
with his patient dad."

"Underneath his bed,
Lies a shirt that she once wore,
And still does, in dreams."

haiku: "Try imagining,
That strangers you encounter,
Are friends from past lives."

haiku: "Often those closest,

Can take comfort in knowing,
We re-create them."

haiku: "Troubles never last,
Like cream poured into coffee,
They'll soon swirl away."

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Just like I told Jolly; this is great!

Damn. Just me and C. hahhahaahahah

Now its movin!

Oh my dreams....It is funny but those memories never are lost and I must recall about 7%.

She actually wore costumes sometimes...what the hell did I know?

I would play behind closed doors but then i would have to kill myself.

hahahahahah

I'll be back. we got time. hahahaha

by Richard Day on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 6:01pm

I note that you have cast off the tired obligation to make a seasonal reference, which can be a pain in the ass and has caused me to cheat, on occasion. It is controversial.

by jollyroger on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 8:23pm

Well, since there are only four seasons and I'm writing 3 and 4 haikus a day, a mandatory seasonal reference seems silly to me. I often use seasonal references, but not in every haiku, and if the seasonal references are under-represented here, it's from my random choosing rather than any repudiation of seasonal references on my part. I also don't always include a reference to nature, which some people seem as essential. I use a lot of references to nature, mind you, just not as a hard and fast rule. Besides, I lean toward a pretty wide interpretation of what is meant by the term, 'nature'.

What I do adhere to is the strict haiku form. I know some people think the form, when written in English, is unimportant. I strongly disagree. To me, that's the whole game; communicating an image, idea or scenario in 17 syllables in a pattern of 5-7-5 or in the longer form of 31 syllables in a pattern of 5-7-5-7-7. That can be a real challenge. I like to think of a haiku as having the potential to be a 17 syllable one-act play.

by MrSmith1 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:28pm

Well, without the 5-7-5 it might as well be a sonnet--altho why we should adopt a stricture from a language not even in our own indo-european group is problematic.

Since we are trading haikus,

Cialis All Gone Haiku

*Winter angst at Ray's

Doug's prostate hygeine program

Wasted all the pills.

(*I do adhere to kiga)

by jollyroger on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:35pm

Excellent! More please.

by MrSmith1 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:39pm

Before time runs out,

a scene plays backwards in dreams,

warning of new snow.

by moat on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 9:49pm

Beautiful, moat!

by MrSmith1 on Fri, 08/12/2011 - 10:21pm

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