Haiku

**Big Jean** · 25-Sep-06, 19:43

Perfect it should be .
So impossible for me,
That sonnet to write !

**trinkie** · 28-Sep-06, 14:17

Orkney Butterfly
Sitting on the ledge so still
Soft light touching you

**phoenix** · 01-Oct-06, 23:20

Haiku its quiet
Do they sleep on Autumn night
When its dark and wet.

**Gleber2** · 02-Oct-06, 01:27

It seems you are right
No-one stirs to write but you
Soon we will awake.

**Kingetter** · 02-Oct-06, 02:08

I'm not quite ready
To apply my pen and ink
Quill needs sharpening.

**canuck** · 02-Oct-06, 02:55

The boys of summer
Have packed their bats and balls
Spring's a long way off

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/NASA...x.jsp?c_id=tor

**canuck** · 02-Oct-06, 03:08

Originally Posted by Kingetter

I'm not quite ready
To apply my pen and ink
Quill needs sharpening.

Kin my friend take heart
Once you start you cannot stop
Haiku rules all speech.

(But take care because the substitute teacher you left in charge keeps reminding us that we need to include a reference to a season.)

**Gleber2** · 02-Oct-06, 03:39

Now I will resign
Summer over, Kingetter
Is back and is boss.

**Sporran** · 02-Oct-06, 03:52

Just had my birthday
Pearl anniversary too
Aye, tempus fugit!

**Moira** · 02-Oct-06, 03:53

Somehow, I doubt that
Winter will make it's mark too
But we need you here

**canuck** · 02-Oct-06, 03:53

Gleber2 wrote:
Now I will resign
Summer over, Kingetter
Is back and is boss.

Summer never ends
The org needs all its helpers
Please do not resign

**Kingetter** · 02-Oct-06, 10:39

No way am I boss
Though thank you for the title
Just one amongst friends.

Lets have no Winter
Of discontent and anger
Peace, Good Will to all.

**Gleber2** · 02-Oct-06, 11:13

Originally Posted by Kingetter

No way am I boss
Though thank you for the title
Just one amongst friends.

Lets have no Winter
Of discontent and anger
Peace, Good Will to all.

You see discontent
And anger where none exist
Just my humour sense.

I was joking but I only meant that I would resign from the position of the critical voice on this thread only. Anyway I've managed to inspire some more haiku writing it would appear. Sorry for the confusion!!!!

**Kingetter** · 02-Oct-06, 11:24

Originally Posted by Gleber2

You see discontent
And anger where none exist
Just my humour sense.

I was joking but I only meant that I would resign from the position of the critical voice on this thread only. Anyway I've managed to inspire some more haiku writing it would appear. Sorry for the confusion!!!!

The anger etc I referred to was elsewhere on the org - not here, and I therefore apologise for the confusion in like manner.
Please stay and remain as the inspirational figure you are.
I'm keen right now to try and diversify our writing talents so am rather preoccupied with that.
Also, busy printing photographic results of my Shetland/Orkney holiday.

**canuck** · 02-Oct-06, 14:24

Haiku master, before you divert your attention, we had a question.

Is Haiku a one verse, stand alone poem? Or can a poem have several verses?
It was an issue that came up while you were away about page one or page two.

**phoenix** · 02-Oct-06, 14:40

Cleaning and washing
all these necessary chores
at times they do bore!

**Kingetter** · 02-Oct-06, 14:47

Originally Posted by canuck

Haiku master, before you divert your attention, we had a question.

Is Haiku a one verse, stand alone poem? Or can a poem have several verses?
It was an issue that came up while you were away about page one or page two.

Master? Hehehe! Ah weel!

To my knowledge, Haiku tends to be used as a poem but one needs to think maybe of it as a thought/idea/concept or whatever, expressed in poetic manner. I feel then that it should be a one off, as it is but of a single thought. Associated thoughts deserve their own space, just as the 'original' one. Just my HO, and what I've gathered over the years since taking an interest in the genre.