Haiku General - Write a haiku or two

[Syzyg]

A haiku is made of 3 lines; The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7 syllables, and the third 5 syllables.

Potato farmer
Ate too much of his harvest
Had a stomach ache

 

[LowlyPheasent]

What is a haiku?
Some type of autistic poem?
Sure looks like it is.

 

[Tingle]

I just took a shit
Now my asshole feels like it
Is a volcano

 

[We Are The Witches]

Doesn't make sense to follow any syllables rule when is applied to japanese but you're writing in english.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

His name is Austin
He has lost it all again
It's over bossman

Doesn't make sense to follow any syllables rule when is applied to japanese but you're writing in english.

True, I haven't read a haiku that doesn't sound stilted and forced.

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

Looks like a fun thread

Doesn't make sense to follow any syllables rule when is applied to japanese but you're writing in english.

Shut up We Are The Witches
Study Aikido

 

[Lone MacReady II]

Dip shit on cycle
Chainsaw slice vertical cut
Bike and man are trash

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Swirling leaves in autumn
The garden ready for winter
My heart is content

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

Get some take out food
It's super market sushi
Guts are exploding

 

[Syzyg]

Wind blows seven times seven
My cattle fly like free birds
It is raining cows

 

[the rat]

To live or to sneed.
No gay retard shall stop me.
Prison Enjoyer.

 

[Syzyg]

Silence is golden
Speech is very expensive
Will you pay the price?

 

[gobbles]

Back to work again
Tomorrow, it looms ahead
People are the pits.

 

[Syzyg]

For better or worse
I am under a great curse
Better luck next time

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

I am the last Tsar
The Tsardom has fallen by reds
Tears fall in Moscow

 

[Devout Muslim]

English haikus suck. They are just a teaching aide. To teach syllables.

 

[Syzyg]

I am the last Tsar
The Tsardom has fallen by reds
Tears fall in Moscow

Your second is eight
Not seven as we agreed
Do better next time

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Your second is eight
Not seven as we agreed
Do better next time

Shit.

I'll try to do it better, I'll search better words next time.

 

[Syzyg]

Urgent help needed
Quickly running out of time
A corpse is hefted

 

[Heavy Metal Kiki]

Doesn't make sense to follow any syllables rule when is applied to japanese but you're writing in english.

Syllable rules are what make a haiku. If you don't follow syllable rules, it's not a haiku. Doesn't matter what language. Haiku are 5-7-5 5; tanka are 5-7-5-7-7; lunes are 5-3-5 which is better reflective of the syllable sparsity of the Japanese language forced onto other languages.

I always liked this haiku:

Haiku by a Robot
Seven hundred ten
Seven hundred eleven
Seven hundred twelve.