10-17-2004, 04:54 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
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| Haiku!
Are you good at it?
Prove yourself now, or be mocked
A poet's challenge. | 
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10-17-2004, 05:06 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
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| I'm definately not a haiku poet. Had to read a couple and a story on em for lit though, does that count?
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10-17-2004, 05:23 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| here we go.
My dearest Zelda
Over the Net I met you
Beauty's highest peak. 
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Prick your finger it is done...
the moon has now eclipsed the sun...
the angel has spread its wings...
the time has come for bitter things...
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10-17-2004, 05:36 PM
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| One night Stu answered the phone, talked for a minute, and then turned to everyone else present to relate the substance of the conversation he'd just had with Keith, his friend. This was done in the form of "A Haiku by Stu."
Keith was on a date.
Now Keith's car is in a ditch.
Keith's single now. | |
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10-17-2004, 05:42 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| Some of my own:
Ring of steel on steel
Combatants move like water
Blood spill; now it ends
Silver cross and ring
Symbols of the long ago
See now – memories
Quiet evening; write
Warm breeze, cars out on wet street
The soul is emptied
And finally, one more requiring a bit of explanation. At the Academy, there are what are called Saturday AM Inspections - the strictest form, usually requiring hours of cleaning on Friday night to do well on. The acronym for them is SAMI, pronounced like "sammy". I wrote the following haiku the afternoon after we received such an inspection, in the middle of a Friday afternoon. I called it:
The Friday Unit
Compliance Mandatory
Inspection: FUCMI | |
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10-17-2004, 05:59 PM
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| My personal favourite:
Leland Grigoli
Wishes he could write haiku
He'll settle for this.
and
Bored college students
Solution to tedium?
We speak in haiku. | |
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10-17-2004, 09:12 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
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| Bad poets write them
When they have to write poems
They are overused | |
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10-17-2004, 09:18 PM
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#8 | | The Judge
Join Date: Feb 2003
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| this is one of my favorites, winner of a haiku contest for cartoon network a few years back:
i hope i don't win
the rules say to bring a friend
i don't have any | |
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10-18-2004, 04:02 AM
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#9 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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Originally Posted by telkanuru Haiku! | Gesundheit.  | |
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10-18-2004, 08:25 AM
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| Inquartata is
a punny board member who
dislikes my yelling  | |
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10-18-2004, 10:45 AM
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| Telkanuru is
An engineering student
Not yet professor
Sorry, man, couldn't resist. Just the last thing that stuck out in my mind. | |
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10-18-2004, 02:24 PM
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| Fencing Haiku
Germans invent flick
Classical types moan and groan
Others parry tierce
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10-18-2004, 04:51 PM
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| Soldier: warrior,
Scholar, and a bit crazy
Another Waco?
I couldn't resist either  | |
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10-18-2004, 05:48 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
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| Damn, in that tube-top
You make me almost forget
That you're my cousin | |
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10-18-2004, 05:51 PM
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| The handsome Soldier
Fixes himself a sandwich
Wearing camo pants | |
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10-18-2004, 06:12 PM
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| The man who has no identity
Reveals, In time
That he has no heart | |
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10-18-2004, 07:01 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by telkanuru Soldier: warrior,
Scholar, and a bit crazy
Another Waco?
I couldn't resist either | Firm and even hand,
Guiding compass, righteousnes,
Scare the weak-minded
It's all good. | |
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10-19-2004, 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Flagrant da Nut The man who has no identity
Reveals, In time
That he has no heart | Relevant novel: The Stranger , by Albert Camus.
(It's in French, but there're English versions as well) | |
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10-19-2004, 12:27 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
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| ummm i hated reading that btw, AP French, definately not a good time. Plus the main character is a nut case.
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10-19-2004, 12:32 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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| Hehe, I read it
in English, for the time being.
Connected well, though. | |
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