Or are they too simple compared to those fiendish double dactyls?

Ros

Haiku elegant
Double-dactyl doggerel
Seldom good haiku

Trivial tidbit:
Ukiah, California
Haiku spelled backwards

Telephone number
Prefix: Haiku, Hawaii
Is 575.

Board's nature is to
shun certain poetry forms;
see our Cinquain thread.

(If it's not funny, they don't want to play)

True that haiku
are not usually good
or funny, sadly

Cinquains by TrossL
greatly impressed humble self,
will try my hand soon!

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Board's nature is to
shun certain poetry forms;
see our Cinquain thread.

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My dear TrossL, don't think that at all. Many of us (including me) enjoy them. I just don't know enough about them to write them. Remember, I had never heard of double dactyls before this board, either. I have been so obsessed with those darned things that I am not sure I want to try another poetry form! I do enjoy your talents, though.

This is a haiku
As it might have been written
By Ogden Nash, possibly something along the lines of him meeting an attractive female poet and commenting "Haiku? I hardly know you!"

In spring trees blossom
And glorious flowers bloom;
Love is in the air.

I did one! Is this right? I saw a haiku book in the bookstore and read a bit. Unfortunately I couldn't find a double dactyl book!

Doves' early morning
Lusty mating calls echo
Erotic high coos

Soy sauce in Hawaii is rarely called soy sauce. Instead, it's universally called "shoyu," originally a Chinese word (jiang-you) that was then borrowed into Japanese, then Hawaiian, then Hawaiian Creole, and finally into English.

This inspired the following, in which the second line is the Hawaiian language translation of the first line.

You show me shoyu
'Oliana a'u koiú
I'll show you soy sauce

You might be inspired to say this is much haiku about nothing.

While I cannot say that I am a Haiku expert, I do love yours, Jerry!

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Originally posted by jerry thomas:
Doves' early morning
Lusty mating calls echo
Erotic high coos

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EXCELLENT pun! I'm surprised B.H. has made no comment regarding it.

Saw this today which I rather like.

It's by John Cooper Clarke.


To convey one's mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic

Non curo ! Si metrum no habet, non est poema.

Read all about my travels around the world here.
Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog.

That's great!

This could go here, in our e-mail thread, or in a computer thread. My daughter sent this:

Sony has announced its own computer operating system is now available. Instead of producing the cryptic error messages characteristic of Microsoft's Windows operating systems, Sony's chairman said, "We intend to capture the high ground by putting a human, Japanese face on what has been - until now ... an operating system that reflects Western cultural hegemony. For example, we have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with our own Japanese haiku poetry."

The chairman went on to give examples of Sony's new error messages:

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 A file that big?
 It might be very useful.
 But now it is gone.
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 The Web site you seek
 cannot be located but
 endless others exist
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Chaos reigns within.
 Reflect, repent, and reboot.
 Order shall return.
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 ABORTED effort:
 Close all that you have.
 You ask way too much.
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 Yesterday it worked
 Today it is not working
 Windows is like that.
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 First snow, then silence.
 This thousand dollar screen dies
 so beautifully.
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 With searching comes loss
 and the presence of absence:
 "My Novel" not found.
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 Windows NT crashed.
 I am the Blue Screen of Death.
 No one hears your screams.
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 Stay the patient course
 Of little worth is your ire
 The network is down
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 A crash reduces
 your expensive computer to
 a simple stone.
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 Three things are certain:
 Death, taxes, and lost data
 Guess which has occurred.
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 You step in the stream,
 but the water has moved on.
 This page is not here.
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 Out of memory.
 We wish to hold the whole sky,
 But we never will.
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 Having been erased,
 The document you're seeking
 Must now be retyped.
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 Serious error.
 All shortcuts have disappeared.
 Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Oh, gosh, Morgan, I am sorry!

Reviving a thread

I have an idea...how about rewriting the OED in with Haikus for every word? Just kidding!

As you know Jerry loves Haikus, and he is very good at them. I am not as good, but here are a few that I wrote while exploring the big island with Jerry:

Jerry taught me to
Make a glottal stop when in
Kea'au Village.

Active volcanoes,
Black sand along the beaches,
Beautiful island.

Mongooses, lava,
Plumeria, papaya:
Hawaii, my love.

Mainlanders don't know:
Coconut trees mean danger.
Watch out! Here comes one....

Gecko calls at night.
Bird of paradise flowers.
I'll miss Hawaii.

Rainbow with new hue
My Haiku runneth over
Kalleh is my guest

Refined gold refined
All lilies newly painted
Honor guest: Kalleh