Haiku Thread

[Shiden]

Well, I basically got the idea from our so loved BFC..., but why not start our own Haiku Thread. There are lots of creative souls browsing the :spyder: Forum (Sia we miss you here).

Shiden


Graffiti severe
Trains, even planes are scattered
The artist takes all

Monday morning sun
Sharp beams through open spaces
Dew is gone once more

Even yesterday
Grasshoppers spread Africa
All corn vaporised

Live long though happy
Every 24/7
Crumble up in time

The morning train leaves
From Amsterdam Avenue
People stare. Distance.

Heavenly a cow
Red muddy roads with deep dents
This India is

Though infinity
may last a lifetime or so
Everything ends soon

Some blades are quite sharp
And diamond is strongest
Sound may pierce your ears

Syllables may cause -
Some trouble - may interfere
Forming nice Haiku

[chinook]

Kitty Haiku

[dialex]

...remember the rain...
I was raining
Over the city
Wishing you could dive into me...

[Stuart Ackerman]

rain come down wash clean
sadness and hate, fear and death
start afresh with peace

[Stuart Ackerman]

loki eighty eight
we just compete with ourselves
we are the question

[Stuart Ackerman]

my blade is my friend.
when others vain and fickle,
run from the trouble

extra helpin hand
the knife before me cuts best.
why ban such a friend?

[Stuart Ackerman]

a cow, quite holy,
rich in a land of poorness.
beliefs beget famine.


the answer is there
under noses of the blind
look and try to see

[chinook]

Birthed from pregnant earth
oil of cloves on Spyderco.
Sliced fruit, sweet labor!

[Delica_Nut]

A pink Delica
Which I have sought for so long.
Is now in my hand.

How you make others
Jealous. I hope they don’t cry.
Please don’t weep my friend.

I’ll let you touch it
And you’ll see why I have searched
All over this world.

My quest is done
And I must go on somehow.
Dreams of Spyderco’s.

[chinook]

Seems indelicate
butt I can't touch your pink one.
Sir Delica Nut

:o :o :o

[Stuart Ackerman]

...on opening Spydercos...

my cellular phone
turns on with a finger press
strange without THE HOLE!


My doctor says nerves!
My wife knows better. She says..
"Thumb needs practicing" !!!


Muscle memory?
Instinctive ways of opening
Sal thinks outside square !!!

[Stuart Ackerman]

Simona still here?
converse in words of beauty
Gunting Girl, start here!

[Stuart Ackerman]

strive for excellence,
begin where all others end.
buy a Spyderco !!!

[Shiden]

Very nice, Zackerty.

Broken wings can fly
In our dreams so far away
All is possible

She saw that movie
Told enthousiastically
Aviator's great

Though Haikus come quick
History goes step by step
Words are eternal

A gaze of pure blue
Ocean - skies - Eternal love
Wait for me my dear

Shiden

[Shiden]

This one I wrote in remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

102.000 Jews were deported from the Netherlands to Vernichtungslager in the east. Most of them passed through Kamp Westerbork. From January 22nd till 27th all the names of these 102.000 people read in Amsterdam and later in Kamp Westerbork.

For more information:
Kamp Westerbork internetsite (http://www.kampwesterbork.nl)
Auschwitz Committee Netherlands (http://www.auschwitz.nl)


Plain and deserted
102.000
Never felt at home

Shiden

[Stuart Ackerman]

In memory of all the Jews in the Holocaust...


sisters and brothers
eradicated with hate
chimneys spewing death

work makes free, a lie
notches on a sickle, a tally
death's head oblliterates

railway to nowhere
orchestral chambers screaming
final solution

we count the long hours
they will be here soon, too soon
we suspect the end

hiding no avail
stormtroopers with machine guns
we run, we die, why?

[RLR]

Er, what's a haiku
and how many syllables
does it really need?

[Stuart Ackerman]

first line must have five
second line should have seven
third line can have five...


...BUt you can add or lessen if it "fits"...

Stuart

[Stuart Ackerman]

elastic morals
the world decays into dark
purification!!!!

[RLR]

Reread my post/haiku ;)

[Stuart Ackerman]

RLR...

Ya got me good, hey?
My naivety was shown!
Do some more for us...

[Stuart Ackerman]

I have left BF...
The smut and the language!
I will post more here

[RLR]

Yeah, this place is cool
and you get to learn alot
about knives and stuff

[silverback]

friends on the forum
I read their digital thoughts
yet do they exist?

[chinook]

Real? What a question!
We could argue either side,
butt who will decide?

[Stuart Ackerman]

maybe it is you
and one other real person
pretending a lot?

[Stuart Ackerman]

perhaps you are one
who assumes that there are many?
when there is no one...

[chinook]

If 'twere just this one
assuming place for the none
I'd still feel I won

[Stuart Ackerman]

the voices inside,
would still converse with you, though.
but would you answer?

[chinook]

No duality.
Idividuality's
my reality.

[chinook]

first line must have five
second line should have seven
third line can have five...


...BUt you can add or lessen if it "fits"...

Stuart

from http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/

What to write about?

Haiku-poems can describe almost anything, but you seldom find themes which are too complicated for normal PEOPLE's recognition and understanding. Some of the most thrilling Haiku-poems describe daily situations in a way that gives the reader a brand new experience of a well-known situation.


The metrical pattern of Haiku

Haiku-poems consist of respectively 5, 7 and 5 syllables in three units. In japanese, this convention is a must, but in english, which has variation in the length of syllables, this can sometimes be difficult.


The technique of cutting

The cutting divides the Haiku into two parts, with a certain imaginative distance between the two sections, but the two sections must remain, to a degree, independent of each other. Both sections must enrich the understanding of the other.
To make this cutting in english, either the first or the second line ends normally with a colon, long dash or ellipsis.


The seasonal theme.

Each Haiku must contain a kigo, a season word, which indicate in which season the Haiku is set. For example, cherry blossoms indicate spring, snow indicate winter, and mosquitoes indicate summer, but the season word isn't always that obvious.

Please notice that Haiku-poems are written under different rules and in many languages. For translated Haiku-poems, the translator must decide whether he should obey the rules strictly, or if he should present the exact essence of the Haiku. For Haiku-poems originally written in english, the poet should be more careful. These are the difficulties, and the pleasure of Haiku.

[Stuart Ackerman]

Thanx for the info Chinook,
Let us see if I can follow the rules exactly...

[chinook]

My friend Zackerty,
nuthin I do exactly.
I speak to myself

Sleep well

[Stuart Ackerman]

I think it's summer,
but rain still comes heavily.
appreciate the sun.

[chinook]

Gloom invades my room.
Grays replace colors of day.
A womb or my tomb?

Shapes glimpsed obliquely,
enter locked doors so sleekly.
Will dawn ever bloom?

Candleglow; warm feeling.
Now phantoms dance my ceiling.
Wraiths waltz illumed.

Icy winds wintry,
shrill shrieks herald entry.
Fetus form I assume.

[Stuart Ackerman]

the beauty of the day,
painting rainbows in our mind.
cheering us when sad

[Stuart Ackerman]

I cry for your sadness,
no one cries for mine.
I cry for mine, alone.

[Stuart Ackerman]

we watch the outcome,
in Golden, Colorado.
and we buy more knives!

[chinook]

Alone under quilts
reliving lost lover guilts.
Much brandy consumed.

[Stuart Ackerman]

rhyming chinook?
opens possiblities.
is it allowed here?

[chinook]

Rhymin's what I'm in
Don't know or care bout Simon
Haiku up2u

http://www.haikuworld.org/dogwood/9/iv.html

[Stuart Ackerman]

A bit of Elastic Haiku...

Scintilate, scintilate, globule vivific,
Fair would I fathom thy nature specific.
Loftily poised in ether, capacious
Closely resembling a gem, carbonacious....

[chinook]

words all a'lliter
your tongue 'n groove a'flitter
a diamond mind

[Stuart Ackerman]

why bang your weary head?
frustration or confusion?
want some Tylenol?

[chinook]

Head harder than heart
and so I lead with the part
if lost I lose least

[Stuart Ackerman]

what's a group of hens?
Concatenation!!
still taste like chicken!!

[death-bringah]

A raging sea...
Thrown from the deck-
A block of ice.

[Stuart Ackerman]

In memory of the Holocaust, on this day...

Skeletons walk free.
Their minds once dead, resurrect,
Remembering...

The older I get,
More acute the memory.
No names, just numbers.

sweet the fragrant smell,
wafting and piercing my head.
I sleep, drift away.

[Stuart Ackerman]

death-bringah...

rearranging chairs
the indestructable craft
kisses the ice berg

[chinook]

colonel ate kernel
English errors internal
Brits' fault eternal

Read what I did write.
Red blood, ink for pagan rites.
Read right it's a fright.

How do kids ever learn this crap?

[Stuart Ackerman]

English is hardest,
foreigners throw hands in air!
universal signs?

[chinook]

Our geyser is wiser,
their geyser, an old guy wheezer.
'scuse my spouting off.

Can't remember name
of project for language same.
World plays one word game?

Schools would end early.
Less bucks to university
no diversity.

[Stuart Ackerman]

Scrabble for letters.
triple word score.."diction'ry".
thesaurus helps me!

[Stuart Ackerman]

we wonder and mourn,
in the springtime of our lives.
where did the time go?

slice and dice with glee.
sharpmaker edges the teeth,
efficiency joy!

Schools would not exist.
university? no need!
teenager knows all!

[chinook]

teenager knows all!

My sagacity,
lost not to senility,
daughter's puberty.

[Stuart Ackerman]

wolves come calling soon,
woman/child had come of age.
barbed wire and shotguns!!!

[chinook]

Defense worked too well.
Ran that wolfpack off to hell.
No puppy did swell.

Hope I didn't win fight
by throwing out Mr Right.
At 30 crowd's light.

Should have been more free,
championship gives no glee.
No grandpups on knee

[Stuart Ackerman]

shotgun, half acre,
a shovel and desire to dig.
any questions, boy?


nailgun his hands closed.
can't touch this fair child,
was I once like him?

[chinook]

Of course I'm his peer
that is the source of my fear.
Teens boys are satyrs.

[Stuart Ackerman]

hormones group as one,
attacking with out brain cells.
I am locking out!

[chinook]

Brain cells don't have tails.
The race is won by the swift,
better, one with gifts.

[Stuart Ackerman]

I cannot sleep now!
The images have scared me!
Grandfather? NOT YET!!!!

[chinook]

My father's strong hands,
thick skin grown thin, translucent.
Mechanic no more.

[chinook]

Winds slow, a winter calm.
Leaves blown from mirror pond.
Still my image ripples.

[Shiden]

Tomorrow I see
Clear blue skies come over me
Yet so far away

Shiden

[Stuart Ackerman]

I see the blackness,
Staring back at me, laughing.
Shadows run with us.

No future in past.
We so waste the time away,
Mistakes teach us all.

no matter how rich,
no matter how poor we are.
mechanics save us!

trees cry leaves, which die.
seeds fall and bury themseves.
spring to new life.

[Stuart Ackerman]

Where have the "Q"s gone?
Zed Dee Pee One Eight Nine, please?
Bring them back again?

[Stuart Ackerman]

do not bug me folks
I have the edge, a Cricket!
spiderweb traps me!

A new knife ahead?
always innovating guys.
sal and company!

[chinook]

I'll live til I die
If I can crawl, walk or fly;
If limp, please unplug.

[Stuart Ackerman]

chinook,
thanx for resurecting the thread...

Pope holds onto life.
Does he not want to meet God?
Why can't he let go?

[chinook]

Wishes not granted
life impulsors implanted
just body doth dance.

[chinook]

For we without clue,
3rd person singular of do.
Words are like thought glue.

too deep, to sleep..............

Sleep didn't help my ear.
My muse having fled from here,
hit enter, should've cleared.

[Stuart Ackerman]

do be do be do
do be do be do be do
Do! Be! Spyderco!

[chinook]

Metre feet and count,
to the rules we must account,
content should surmount.

'Soft'ware in the main
surely lives up to its name
edits hide lazy brain.

[Stuart Ackerman]

Chinook, pink and lean.
headbanging till cows come home,
change name to Estwing?

[Stuart Ackerman]

live your life, so short.
do the impossible, NOW!
fear less, love more, LIVE!

[chinook]

Eyes everywhere spy
seems like everyone drops by
as haiku we try.

Busloads of lookie-loos
views enough to book a cruise
few offer their muse.

Arcane or sublime
no need for my sing-song rhyme
use Zackerty's line.

Pen haiku to purge,
chant a funereal dirge,
expose your dark urge,

or rise to new heights
exploring smallest insights
life's beauties excite.

There are butt few rules
5-7-5, and contentwise,
dodged by a few fools (me)

I'm much too verbose
classic haiku is concise
word choices precise.

No prizes for form
poet laureats? not warm
its fun so what harm?

I would like to see more knifenuts try it. It could help wean you off your knifesturbation. :o

[Stuart Ackerman]

chinnok a'int a fool.
wisdom, thought, design, all weld,
a carpet of words

the cells of this world,
imprison thoughts and actions.
free the dead brain cells!

[chinook]

free the dead brain cells!
Skin cells should be scrubbed
with loofah sponge rub-a-dub.
What for dirty mind?

Put man in prison
punish or revision him?
can we, or wishin?

Live near Pelican Bay
worst of worst held night and day
guards sure earn their pay

not one PHD
no gangbangers have fleed
smart enough for me

[chinook]

FS from ebay.
Nice blade, four inch slim bowie,
sharp edge on one slab. (almost)

Sal released combo.
Oneliner never better.
Pierce, gouge, ream and stab. (EDC most)

I carry this most often when I actually expect to do work around the property.

[Stuart Ackerman]

Carry often now
to need and not want, too
what lurks there yonder?

World is so crazy
we learn not to trust, we fear
respect is hard earned

[chinook]

Violent actions,
mundane tasks performed daily,
yard 'n garden, need blade.

My knives are not carried for protection.

[Stuart Ackerman]

In regards to self defence....


neither are mine,too
all day and not a thing to cut
at home the food awaits.