Haiku maybe help? (now also with limerics!)

Started by TheYak, Wed 08/01/2003 23:59:51

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Gilbert

Joke Haiku is banned
Let us move to something smart
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TheYak

Ninety percent of
everything is crap with
no culture exempt

EldKatt

Quote from: MrColossal on Tue 21/06/2005 04:56:08
This man is a jerk
What does it matter at the end of the day
Because haiku has been around for a long time, I can't make fun of it?

His point isn't that you can't make fun of it; it's rather that joke haikus aren't haikus at all. They're three-line things that follow one single restriction that not even Bashō adhered to (the syllable length), rather than the many other more important things that make haikus haikus.

If I write a sonnet with
A random number of lines,
No meter and no rhyme,
And only line breaks
To make it look like poetry:
Am I cleverly parodying
William Shakespeare?

Still, though, so desperately writing a long essay begging for the joke haiku to be completely eliminated is a bit harsh. It can be pretty convenient to have a form for humorous verse that takes no effort to follow.

I for one welcome
our new haiku overlords:
Poems made easy!

DragonRose

O, haikus are fun
Do not overthink these things
Make haikus with joy
Sssshhhh!!! No sex please, we're British!!- Pumaman

Pumaman

Mr Paul Henry
is a pretentious fool, no?
Just ignore his rant

EldKatt, I must say
You disappoint us all here
With lack of Haiku

EldKatt

I apologize
for my noticable lack
of haiku poems.

But I feel some ruth
for Mr Henry's despair
for the following:

A sublime art form,
thoroughly misunderstood,
as the haiku is.

But I doubt we'll claim
to be the peers of Basho.
There's no harm in it.

There are benefits:
When counting the syllables,
You think first, then talk,

even though there's more
that makes real haiku haiku.
There's no harm in fun.

Still, I think you all
might like reading the essay.
Harsh, but captivating.

There's no harm in fun,
but none in learning either.
...I've no more to say.

Pesty

"Pedantic" is the
word that best describes this Mr.
Paul Henry. That or "ass".
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EldKatt

Quote from: Pesty on Tue 21/06/2005 20:21:55
"Pedantic" is the
word that best describes this Mr.
Paul Henry. That or "ass".

Yes
and
no.

He just wants to tell
people about what a haiku
really is, and how the true form is more complicated than (and indeed different from) what we Westerners are taught in school.

And that's just lovely.
But he's much too aggressive,
so he pretty much fails miserably in getting his point across, and ends up angering people instead, QED.

That
is very
sad.

Pumaman

#528
That has already
been discussed in this thread, but
five-seven-five wins

What is your purpose
by disrupting our Haiku
for no good reason

EldKatt

#529
On the other hand,
when not adhering to rules,
better be arrant.

DragonRose

Or just don't break rules
This is always an option
Haiku only, friend.

I read the essay
But I don't care mwahaha
Onwards, I haiku.
Sssshhhh!!! No sex please, we're British!!- Pumaman

Kweepa

I summerily
Dismiss Mr Paul Henry:
He am retarded!
Still waiting for Purity of the Surf II

TheYak

Just one idea
In a small space using brain
is not crass as joke

SSH

Inspired by Kinoko's ice cream lustings, I felt I ode it to coffee:

Oh! Beans of Java!
Rich arabica aroma
I drink eagerly
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Rui 'Trovatore' Pires

Wha? This thing ain't in popular? Why? Don't it qualify?
Reach for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

Kneel. Now.

Never throw chicken at a Leprechaun.

Evil

It's just common threads.
Or noobs stray from the topic.
Bad threads only go there.

Andail

once gen-gen was the
forum trashcan, but now we
have the popular

Akumayo

#537
Yes, I do agree
With what Andail has spoken
But to a degree

(I'ts a little bit broken)

Sorry I rose this
What you call a 'dead' topic
But it has so much

Left in potential
Letting it die is madness
We are no heathens
"Power is not a means - it is an end."

TheYak

This thread comes and goes
Like ooze in a lava lamp
It floats to the top

Akumayo

You compare quite well
To the nature of this post
I hope it stays up
"Power is not a means - it is an end."

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