I hate the stench of
coffee. It snarls, "Morning's here!"
but I just want dreams.
Join in the contest. Haikus (5/7/5) about anything specific, not abstract. I'd like to test your creativity.
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I don't know if "snarls" really qualifies as one syllable....maybe if you pronounce it with a Boston or New Jersey accent (whatever) - snahls!
webster's calls it one... And, for the record, at least my three lines are close. You have too many syllables for me to even count there!
where's your haiku? :)
In the South, snarls is (at least) two syllables.
Anyway...
starbucks. starbucks. yay.
Starbucks! Starbucks! Yay! Yay! Yay!
STARBUCKS! STARBUCKS! WHEEE!
Well played, Mark. I was skeptical about that snarls comment, too. Here is one of mine, but I need at least one day of class to really work on a good Haiku. I'll have something else for the contest later.
Eighteen syllables
Is too short for a full thought
I really need nineteen
Tea in the morning
Wafting of french vanilla
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm YUM
Good luck with the competition, although most people (both Japanese and Western writers) don't write 17 syllable haiku, even Basho didn't do that all the time and he practically invented haiku. ;-)The question about 'snarls' and whether it's one or two syllables raises the interesting question of why we think we have to do 17 syllables for a haiku?
Who started the myth?
I can adapt a haiku of mine (published in Mainichi Shimbun, Japan) into 5/7/5 (with kigo):
the chill of spring rain
on my newly trimmed haircut
at the bus station
spring rain
the chill through my haircut
waiting for the busall my best,
Alan
With Words
good one joel.
"lonely in a drawer,
least used kitchen implement:
the turkey baster"
don't know where that one came from, but there it is...
(in Malta snarls is one syllable)
Caffeinated blood
Nescafe capuchino
Running through my veins.
Tanja Cilia
I did not know the history of the haiku and that it's not always a 3/5/3 pattern.
I'm also really enjoying the number of haikus about coffee. (Must be the first time I've used "enjoy" and "coffee" in the same sentence.)
The comment on Basho makes the Haiku generator's Bushko a little more clever. (It's a site where you submit a haiku with a Bushism.)
If you like coffee haiku, here two haiku about them. ;-)
library cafe --
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools
partial eclipse
the sky darkens then lightens
my cappuccino
I think it was Bill Higginson who first advocated a Western 3/5/3 equivalent to the Japanese 5/7/5 format.
Bushko or Bushku, I would imagine it's closer to senryu to haiku as they are just witty verse. I found nothing witty about Bush, although I thought his father was a decent President.
all my best,
Alan
The With Words International Online Haiku Competition 2009.
Of course, you've heard of the Pi-ku, right?
a pi ku
is
three one then four
waiting for my client
will he show? if his mom's a
good remember-er
i want some chocolate
the kind with cranberries and some
almonds. YUM YUM YUM
caribou coffee
chocolate mmmm aroma
need to buy more stock.
5
7
5
Yay!! i did it, i did it.
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