Haiku

What is a haiku?
Why should I write one for you?
Poetry is hard.

Haiku need not fit strictly with the 5-7-5 scheme. There is room. Breathe a little.

What is more important than the syllable count is the content of the lines...

That's right, Didymos. Even in very traditional Japan there is a "free haiku" movement. An example are the haikus of Taneda Santoka (1882-1940)

Snow, snow falling,
In this silence -
I am.

Santoka obviously thought that the problem with the traditional haiku is its terrible verbosity. All that babble and babble... No,

Sparrow eggs
In springtime,
My loss.

How "less" can one go? ;-)

Love it! Thanks. How less can one go sounds like what you say at a limbo dance.

Words are dying
In Silence
Words are reborn

Lemme quote Belinda Carlile, Live your life, be free.

Didymos

I don't want to breathe,
And there is no room for me,
Haiku are not strict?

Cynicism

I am a cynic,
Always seeing the worst in
the human creature.

Life

Once upon a time,
There was a boy and a girl,
They both died, the end.

Summer

Rocks crunch beneath me,
Fireflies fly all around me,
I love summertime.

Caezius:
Holding his breath
Blue in the face
The sun dips below the horizon

Basho blushes
Westerners ramble through three confined lines
Frost bite

Colds are like small dogs:
drooling, persistent, cranky.
Naps can help with both.

Battling battles
Plundering the seven seas
I am a pirate

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Heavenly features
Make up your entire body
You are an angel

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Stick this up your butt.
Then throw it in the toilet.
Yay toilet paper!

Two paths cross
Both going nowhere
Get to class!