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Haiku. Do YOU?

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Share with us your favorite haiku (singular or plural)!

 

I'll start:

 

Haiku is easy,

but doesn't always make sense.

Refrigerator.

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Remind me again what the syllable pattern is?

 

It's 5, 7, 5 - but I understand there's a bit of leeway in foreign languages (foreign being other than Japanese). Actually, one site said there is NO consensus as to how to write Haiku in foreign languages.

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I'll stick to the pattern.

 

I love the BT

It is so much tainty fun

Shadow and the Light

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Example of nonconventional in rules, but totally embraces the spirit of the form:

 

I found one for Froggy!

 

 

 

Green frog,

Is your body also

Freshly painted?

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I'll stick to the pattern.

 

I love the BT

It is so much tainty fun

Shadow and the Light

 

Nice!

 

Here's one of my own:

 

 

Llamas, they abound.

 

Bananas in the background,

 

Smiley likes to rawr.

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Thank you :laugh:

 

In return, you can have the only haiku I can remember off the top of moi head :)

 

Winter downpour

Even the monkey

Needs a raincoat

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Thank you :laugh:

 

In return, you can have the only haiku I can remember off the top of moi head :)

 

Winter downpour

Even the monkey

Needs a raincoat

 

I love it!

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Bard Babe plays a lute.

Songstress serenades the Spring,

while Jani dances.

I'll stick to the pattern.

 

I love the BT

It is so much tainty fun

Shadow and the Light

 

Nice!

 

Here's one of my own:

 

 

Llamas, they abound.

 

Bananas in the background,

 

Smiley likes to rawr.

 

AWESHUM!!! :D

 

I gives yoo 5 pointsies for dis thread of fabuloos BT creativity :D

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I'll stick to the pattern.

 

I love the BT

It is so much tainty fun

Shadow and the Light

 

Nice!

 

Here's one of my own:

 

 

Llamas, they abound.

 

Bananas in the background,

 

Smiley likes to rawr.

 

AWESHUM!!! :D

 

I gives yoo 5 pointsies for dis thread of fabuloos BT creativity :D

 

 

Yay thank you Nya!!

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Haiku do you do?

Haiku do a haiku too,

I love the haiku!

 

Lolz

 

I like it!

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^.^

 

I was going to make one about pudding, but got lazy.

 

Pudding in Autumn,

Vanilla or Chocolate--

Please add bananas!

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Tapioca dreams,

Like falling snow on cedar.

A cascade of Light.

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You're not going to believe this: I found a supposedly "random" haiku generator. Guess what it generated?

 

 

 

borderland ignites

orchard bloating mangy lazy

samurais raining

 

 

 

Coincidence? I think not, my friend.

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