Haiku

[lifeslittleuturns]

Joy and happiness

When you first see your newborn

Purely from the heart

[lifeslittleuturns]

Falling satellite

Defense department "SNAFU"

Why buses don't fly

[Qryos]

snow drifts on the fence

patterns tripping down the slope

rabbits visit here

a dead cherry tree

draped with snow and pogonip

robins still find rest

{pogonip is frozen ice, more delicate than icycles, caused by freezing fog.}

[RevRainbow]

Midnight coughing spell.

Cigarettes doing their work

within my black lungs.

Coffee cup empty!

Waiting for percolation

is grounds for divorce.

[Qryos]

~ OK!

yes I play with friends

late at night with smokes and beer

on my computer

simply enjoying

conversation and debate

so I stay up late

~ turn {Just one for you }

falling too swiftly

catching every branch there is

landing is a bitch

... Just a thought Hon!

[rev.daniel]

Can you think of a poem I can give to my wife for V-day?

[lifeslittleuturns]

Can you think of a poem I can give to my wife for V-day?

Delicate beauty

The mother of my children

Be mine, Valentine

[lifeslittleuturns]

Flowers and candy

flowing around, sea of red

it is you I love

[RevRainbow]

How can I tell you

deep thoughts in my heart and soul

in just a few words?

[lifeslittleuturns]

Those afraid to swim

should stay in the shallow end

while in the gene pool

blowing trees drop leaves

pixels of color on ground

brisk chill in the air

[Qryos]

~ A request for love poetry?

{I do so enjoy requests! Tho' you've gotten such wonderful stuff already... }

I have found my life

With your love I am complete

Forever as one

Hmmm... You perhaps want rhyming stuff?

I have found my love

The one that fits like a glove

Forever and ever my gift from above!

... & then ya write a bit like 'Forever, Snookums' or whatever your personal stuff is...

{Ya gotta make it personal.}

[rev.daniel]

NIICCEE! all of them.

[Samadhi]

First time alone with a girl

As nervous as a piece of glass

In a child's hand

At the used bookstore

It makes me sad to see

A book that was once a gift

Gusty autumn winds

Scattering the leaves

My broom is tired

[lifeslittleuturns]

Intoxication

the effect of your wiles

as our two souls dance

I am struck as dumb

thoughts of you wash over me

instantly at peace

The yin to my yang

Your the Jane to my Tarzan

A natural fit

As the years tick by

and as our bonds are strengthened

we are closer still

I savor each breath

as you lay here next to me

In peaceful slumber

Appreciation

of the day that we first met

and locked our gaze

With breakfast in bed

and massaging of your feet

I love pleasing you

Once again I'll ask

Will you be my Valentine

to my better half

[Qryos]

~ Whooo... Evidently the 'haiku' area is resuscitated, huh?

So on this one day

There's so many ways to say

How much I love you...

But to make it true...

I'll work on those ways to say

It's not just one day

I LOVE YOU

[RevRainbow]

Can one ever use

iambic pentameter

in a haiku poem?

[lifeslittleuturns]

Can one ever use

iambic pentameter

in a haiku poem?

If you can find a way to squeeze 10 syllables into 5, and 10 syllables into 7, and 10 syllables into 5. Perhaps if you hire the ENRON accountants to count the syllables.

[lifeslittleuturns]

If you can find a way to squeeze 10 syllables into 5, and 10 syllables into 7, and 10 syllables into 5. Perhaps if you hire the ENRON accountants to count the syllables.

duh, you just used "iambic pentameter" in a haiku poem.

Here's my sign.

[RevRainbow]

[Qryos]

~

Rainbow does magic!

iambic pentameter

in a haiku poem

{OK, yeah, I did cheat & do cheap... }

Ah jeesh, my teacher

would frown and disown this

as not true haiku

perhaps senryu?

nope, I'm off the beaten path

he'd say I'm lost

haiku's really hard

when you stay to the order!

I enjoy this form