Haiku Showing 5,401-5,450 of 8,460

[Mandy]

Loss made her hardened,
with tears like diamonds, and
a heart made of stone.

[Angie]

Her heart was stony.
It would crumble or shatter
instead of bruising.

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Jonah bought jug wine
Sang not tonight Josephine
Very John Wayne like

[Paula Tohline]

She writes not haiku.
She does not even try to.
(Hence no final rhyme.)

[Ryan]

'Twas a lark who sang
my final rhyme. I'd always
imagined ravens.

[Mandy]

'Tis better to be
lamented by ravens than
fore told by chickens.

[M]

He learned that Hawthorne
and Dickens had been foretold
by prairie chickens.

[Mandy]

With writing that looked
like chicken scratch, his plots were
often slow to hatch.

[Ryan]

an age old debate
the chook pondered which came first
- plot or character

[Mandy]

When her story got
a case of plot rot, chicken
soup didn't help alot.

[Paula Tohline]

A Haiku Play in One Act

"You first," said the egg.
"No, no! You first!" hen replied.
The curtain descends.

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Haiku in One Act:) By the Copy Cat

What? asked the princess.
Go to sleep replied the witch.
Wake up, said the Prince.

[Paula Tohline]

Cathe wrote: "Haiku in One Act:) By the Copy Cat

What? asked the princess.
Go to sleep replied the witch.
Wake up, said the Prince."

Love it! Ain't it fun to put silliness in a form? (Of course that's the story of my poorly formed, silly life! :-D)

[M]

“Substance?” she giggled.
“Not a trace of. Plot rot’s what
it’s got a case of.”

[Ryan]

These are excellent! Well done :)

[M]

Mandy’s #6740 and #6742 had me rolling. She can write them, can’t she?

[[deleted user]]

I agree. I wonder who influenced her? Hmmm..

These are wonderful, Paula, Cat, Ryan, Mandy and M! :)

Good morning from here :)

[M]

Good morning, Leslie!

[Ryan]

With a rotten plot
that time forgot, my novel
reeked of something fowl.

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Paula Tohline wrote: "Cathe wrote: "Haiku in One Act:) By the Copy Cat

What? asked the princess.
Go to sleep replied the witch.
Wake up, said the Prince."

Love it! Ain't it fun to put silliness in a form? (Of course t..."

Silliness in form
the whirls and twirls of the wind
Thank you for your poem :)

[Mandy]

Thank you guys.

[M]

What vice could surpass
my silliness except my
willy-nilly-ness?

[Guy]

My willy wanders
To places best not thought of
But leaves with a smile.

[Paula Tohline]

Who has not a thought,
willy-nilly though it be,
of smiles that could be.

[Nicky]

Happily he smiles;
His ignorance can not
Spoil his utter bliss.

[Guy]

To be good or could
That may be Willy's question,
Between May or B.

[Mandy]

Between May and B
is Mayberry, and a one
bullet deputy.

[Guy]

Lol!

[Paula Tohline]

LOL! said Guy
But just what secrets does he
Have 'tween he and she?

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quick - write a haiku
quick witted - something in French
quilt my words in poems.

[[deleted user]]

haiku quilts cover
my cold feet and my cold hands
keep me warm haiku

[Paula Tohline]

Vite, je vais écrire
Un haïku en français, mais
Pourquoi un seul, eh?

[Guy]

RDF!

[Paula Tohline]

That "eh" makes it Canadian French. Which makes it REALLY RDF!

[[deleted user]]

What is RDF?
Canadian French abbrev-
iation. Please tell.

[M]

(Paula, you’re amazing. Not only a wizard at rhyming verse, but fluent in French. Why only one haiku in French, indeed! There’s no rule against it.)

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A run of the mill haiku
In a run down neighborhood-
Dreams of a rug joint

Where I'd flub the dub
And write haikus on napkins
In a flossy dress

[[deleted user]]

Where I'd pull on pearls
dangling from my little lobes
alone and happy.

[Mandy]

Parlez-vous français?
To which I answered, "No way."
et l'écureuil rit.

[Guy]

What hangs on the lobes
Are a curious teaser,
His but to please her.

[Paula Tohline]

RDF means,en englais, at least as far as this linguistic dilettante understands, Really Damn Funny. But I suppose funny is in the mind of the reader.

I am probably limited to one French haiku, but when my
mind wakes up, I'll work on a Latin one. Cathe,
if you think my French is lousy, wait until you read my Latin. Pig-speak is my forte!

[Paula Tohline]

Mandy wrote: "Parlez-vous français?
To which I answered, "No way."
et l'écureuil rit."


Pourquoi l'écureuil rire?

Il a dû être un écureuil canadien.

[Paula Tohline]

The mill runs slowly.
Little meal is created
in any language.

(Pardonnez mon français archaïque. Il a été longtemps depuis que j'ai utilisé ou étudié.)

[Paula Tohline]

M wrote: "(Paula, you’re amazing. Not only a wizard at rhyming verse, but fluent in French. Why only one haiku in French, indeed! There’s no rule against it.)"

Wow! Are you delusional or what? I'm not even fluent in English (my native language). I make up most of the French I use, but I will admit to being a Francophile, and e even more so an Anglophile, which is probably the source of all my problems in the overly wordy, logorrhea area of my writing avocation.

[Guy]

Lol! Yes. If you love a language set,it free to run wild and lose itself in your indulgence.

[Ryan]

We shivered through verbs,
smoked cigars after pronouns;
she's gifted in tongues.

[Nicky]

At the tower of
Babel she felt her mind had
become unstable!

[Nicky]

Paula Tohline wrote: "RDF means,en englais, at least as far as this linguistic dilettante understands, Really Damn Funny. But I suppose funny is in the mind of the reader.

I am probably limited to one French haiku, bu..."

I have always wanted to learn Latin. At school you had to be in the top set at Maths to be allowed to do Latin(??)I'm not great with numbers - so that was that.

[M]

That she wasn’t tops
in math left her Latinless
and consumed with wrath.

[Paula Tohline]

I topped not one list.
Even the best dilettante
was beyond my ken.