You all know the drill here. 5 syllables first line, 7 second line, 5 again for the third line. Lines must not rhyme, for such are the weird and slightly insane rules of haiku. As for why I'm suddenly delving into the realms of bad poetry, well what are the odds that my first poem would be about just that?
David Kaufmann has
Run out of ideas for
His silly Canucks blog
...And my second one, too!
Getting nostalgic
Has its moments but truly
Haiku is more fun
Alright, alright, enough kidding around.
The Vancouver Canucks
How inspired they make me not
To become a fan
I don't think you knew
My favourite part of hockey
Is the word 'goalie'
Did you hear about
How the Sedins are doing?
I know I did not
I was at the Bay
Canucks merchandise really
Isn't that pretty
The NHL is
An inconvenient
Subject for haiku
I'm stopping this now
Pretend this post never was
Haiku sucks like that
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The tricky thing about haiku is that it's designed for Japanese, a language where syllables are rigidly defined and counting them easy as anything. You see, in their alphabet (known as 'kana'), each single character represents a full syllable. So the 5-7-5 pattern is easy to define, whereas in English the loose rule that it's generally one vowel to a syllable still doesn't help the fact that counting these buggers is iffy as anything. Of course, Japanese poetry has complications of its own with each 'kanji' (borrowed Chinese character) having multiple potential kana readings, but that's sort of beside the point.
this could be your next post... the canucks suck this year as usual. Maybe you should start posting on the BC Lions, who despite having on the ugliest jerseys of all time (more orange anyone?), can actually win games!
"Senryū tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and senryū are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are serious. Senryū do not need to include a kigo, or season word, like haiku."
Hah! Told you!
To quote sole:
"I'm a person not a poet"
Also I'd never heard of this 'senryu' thing. Not knowing the first thing about poetry does that to a person.
That's ok. I never would have learned about it if I hadn't stumbled across a book called "Gay Haiku" by Joel Derfner.
I wonder if this means that The Book of Erotic Haiku is inaccurately-named...
(Yes, it does exist. Google it.)
A pink jersey seen,
In a class the other day.
Almost laughed out loud.
I tried,
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