Wrote this at another site; someone had posted an American haiku (humor) about how haiku often doesn’t seem to make sense. It (finally) occurred to me that I should archive it… I am. 😉
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Oooh, I just found this
Something about the haiku
Makes my fingers itch
Though, classically,
It should be 232,
Not 5, 7, 5
American words,
More syllables for meaning,
Is almost a cheat
Japanese haiku
With their pyrrhic syllables
Can do more with less:
Snowing
Dream summer
Shovel
The ancient method
supposed to mention season
and not straddle lines
But does both at times
humans being hypocrites
ill at ease with form
Then there’s “haiku chain”,
Being my own invention,
Not yet perfected;
Each verse, it’s own tale;
Taken together, another;
Fractal poet form
You’re reading it now,
peeling the onion’s layers
context in context
Enter the forum,
Grinning in spite of myself,
Fall through saloon doors
Stand up, dust off, smile,
50’s cry, “Honey! I’m home!”
Words to same effect
So you,
Get Haiku;
Bring it.