go-it-alone haikus

[rapscalious rob]

okay, it’s 5-7-5, folks. let’s go. Do you want to go first? No really, I insist. Well, okay, here goes…

It’say eallyray
eallyray ardhay otay
itewray aikushay

ilewhay usingyay
ethay anguagelay ofyay
igpay atinlay.

[rapscalious rob]

Sorry.
:rolleyes:

[dinzdale]

Dont be sorry Rob
The pig Latin stumped me too
Now try again please

[rapscalious rob]

translation is this:
It’s really really hard to
write haikus while use

ing the language of
pig latin [blank blank blank blank
blank blank blank blank blank]

[funkytuba]

That silly R R
might not get it quite perfect
haiku trailblazer

[rapscalious rob]

To know Pig Latin,
you might want to try this (http://rinkworks.com/dialect/) link;
it’s pretty nifty.

:)

[ambo]

Time passes slowly
Inside my insanity
Slit my wrists again

[rapscalious rob]

to bring the sun out,
partake of inanity
and stick your tongue out.

:p

[nycwriters]

Sundays, so sleepy
feeling drained from night before
but smile will not fade

[dinzdale]

Avatar woman
When will you walk through the door
and make me spank you?

[rapscalious rob]

I think that I heard
a voice in the darkness say:
I don’t think so, dinz.

[funkytuba]

I've just got to get this one out of my head:

Fancy blue raincoat
six foot ten, four hundred pounds
nothing underneath


we now return you to your regularly scheduled go-it-alone haiku

[nycwriters]

icy cold droplets
fall onto your willing tongue
snowflakes make mem'ries

[chuckie egg]

a gem from Fight Club...

Workers bees can leave
Even drones can fly away
The queen is their slave

[nycwriters]

,

[funkytuba]

california's mild
except in mid september
when it can get hot

[rapscalious rob]

Evil hobbits's!
They stole it from us, gollum!
They took my precious!

[rapscalious rob]

soft, velvet darkness
dark, immense, empty desert,
I wish I was light

[funkytuba]

This was inspired by this haiku (http://www.zefrank.com/bulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=78868#post78868) (no offense to surfy).

three monkeys in bed
three tails, six hands, six quick feet
one falls off bumps head

[nycwriters]

.

[rapscalious rob]

nice!

[nycwriters]

.

[rapscalious rob]

pues, sí.

[rapscalious rob]

I never new God
as closely as yesterday,
when God wrote to me.

But, well, then again,
I still don’t know God that well…
maybe I cannot.

:p

[God]

HEY, GET OVER IT!
SO I’M GOD-- WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM?
YEAH, WELL THAT’S TOUGH, CHUM.

[funkytuba]

haunting albatross
unwelcome recollection
comes back; stomach churns

[chuckie egg]

I always read Rob
as being raspalicious
am I dyslexic?

[rapscalious rob]

I’ve gotta wonder:
What does ‘raspalicious’ mean?
Are raspberries thus?

[BusyRich]

I feel such a fool
When it asked for location
I answered 'England'

Reading further threads
I see that it's 'way uncool'
to be so honest

[rapscalious rob]

Forever a nerd,
I’ve wandered through these strange years
anonymously.

I guess it’s better
to open the windowshade,
let in the sunlight.

[Klynne]

I have seen my life
Flashing, running, quickly in
front of my vision.

[rapscalious rob]

I have seen my wife
flashing, running, trim and thin,
wonderous Parisian

(sorry, I couldn’t resist…)

[Klynne]

Rapscalious Rob (I am assuming Rapscalious has four syllables)
Makes me wonder about life
and what happens next

[Coffee]

Well, that's very deep,
cannot see to the bottom
Hope pail at end full.

[funkytuba]

some advice, BR
uncool is as uncool does
let it all hang out

insight is prized and
cleverness is valued more
than feigning coolness

[nycwriters]

.

[funkytuba]

all my stuff's outside
awaken from a dead sleep
unexpected rain

[Coffee]

My cup sits empty
Waterfalls spring from my eyes
tears must nourish me.

[jaymirror]

I keep watching down
from atop the skyscraper
I feel like to jump

Now thinking better
I prefer taking the lift
it is way too deep

[Coffee]

thoughts whispered to winds
Wings carry them to my lover
wherever she may be.

[Klynne]

Your lover awaits
But you are too busy, your
arms around a tree

[Coffee]

Tree bark in my face
Rough surface toughens my skin
No, Trees can't hug back

[Coffee]

Candy rattles brain
Halloween didn't scare me
morning face sure did.

[jaymirror]

I'm happy because
sugar removes the bitter
and I have sugar

[Coffee]

So you hug trees too
Saw you met her while skiing
very pretty tree

[Klynne]

My tree is gorgeous
I see you looking at her
Keep hands off my tree

[nycwriters]

Saint or sinnerman
Nina tellin' us how it is
set a soul so free

[jaymirror]

Still trapped on the board
I keep waiting for you to
farking post once more!

[Coffee]

Autumn hues alert
Yellow, Orange, Scarlet Red
Sweater time again

[nycwriters]

.

[Klynne]

Restful sleep oh why
do you cruelly elude our
dear friend NYC?

[nycwriters]

.

[Klynne]

I will chant a spell
Makes everything better and
NYC snoozes

[rapscalious rob]

If time would slow down,
would I notice the difference?
Would my hopes come true?

Or, on the flip side,
would everything be the same,
overworked again?

[Coffee]

if
this is true

space has stuff between
time ripples through like jello
vector is the view

like right now
is

--------------------------------------
--------------------------------------

and
if not true

Static time just one
foot nailed to the floorboard
sudden plunge to black

then who sees
if

I wanted to play with adding the other odds to the ends of the haiku 5-7-5 pattern...so its 1-3-5-7-5-3-1...for fun.
"a haiku plus some"

[Maggie Shamrock]

Oh inconstant friend
How could you betray me so
Judas is your name

[Hyakujo's Fox]

it was me or you
what would you have had me do?
it's my life to live

[nycwriters]

.

[Klynne]

Beautiful is what
you say, when you lay by me
I don't believe you

[Coffee]

Foggy boggy brain
Window wet outside from rain
Spent day drawing train.

[Klynne]

Why do you deny
Me, everything you promised?
You are a liar

[Maggie Shamrock]

It is Man's nature
To lie with sugar sweet words
To get what he wants

[Coffee]

Lie, lye, lay. Leigh, why
must coflict become flowers
a dozen sorrys.

not enough never
is...this cruel fate of all men,
Its...always...the guy.

[rapscalious rob]

The gathering dark
envelopes me, as I lie,
waiting for sleep’s pull

all guy kind must wait,
cross vast distances of space,
work into the night.

nevermind the blue,
fuzzy thing attached to me.
Quit staring, dammit!

I said, quit staring!
You want a piece of me? Huh?
Next best thing: fruitcake.

If nothing ain’t here,
then there must be everything,
or not, depending.

[lapietra]

I should get started
so much cooking to be done
but I'm all relaxed

shopped for veg'tables
wine, herbs, sea bass and oysters
it can't cook itself

what if he cancels?
I'll have to eat it myself
effort not wasted

You rate a good meal
If no one will buy you one
learn to cook gourmet

it's time most well spent
transform flour and yeast to bread
skills worth more than gold

[nycwriters]

Originally posted by Maggie Shamrock
It is Man's nature
To lie with sugar sweet words
To get what he wants

Very nice!

[lapietra]

inappropriate
always forcing the issue
will you ever learn

you golden girl aged
grasping for what will help you
feel you're still valid

what pretty girls do
look in the mirror and find
total confusion

set it in order
woman, household, family
neighborhood, country

beauty imploded
feeds the hungry gaping hole
from their invasion

you won't understand
until you see it with your eyes
it's real nonetheless

trust, open, forgive
what cannot now be undone
still eats your soft heart

he, lonely, depraved
never speaks apologies
ev'ry blow his scar

dare you free him now?
dare you see yourself in her?
angry finger turns

[nycwriters]

.

[lapietra]

in a hall of glass
one's reflection's everywhere
not one's true being

[lapietra]

i want to thaw you
free you from the ice of fear
with heat from my love

[lapietra]

I keep all your notes
and your number in my phone
but I won't call you

[Klynne]

Messed up, sorry

[Klynne]

Hard to say goodbye
I will always remember
you, and who you are

Remember our kiss?
and what could have really been
Now I say goodbye

[nycwriters]

.

[Coffee]

Shining in the center
being all, sees nothingness
candle in a cave.

[nycwriters]

.

[rapscalious rob]

Past regrets sting me
in absentminded moments
of contemplation

Shadowy sea waves
glistening in the moonlight
ancient roaring songs

breathe the briny breath
of life’s beginning, the sand
falls away, so smooth

[Coffee]

A friend offers love
or maybe just a lover
joy walks either path.

[lapietra]

we share a chair, he
curled soft and warm at my back
I, perched at the edge

purring resonates
velvet head cupped in my hand
perfectly content

[lapietra]

this, the smell of fall
cool winey scent of woodsmoke
and a hint of snow

[lapietra]

little Christmas tree
brings equal joy as lofty
and fewer stray "leaves"

[funkytuba]

"you must understand,
I simply had to", he said
head hangs shoulders droop

[dinzdale]

This nice old settee
is frayed and worn in places
but still comforts me

[ambo]

Silk, satin and such
Pouches filled with lavender
Milky white fingers

[jaymirror]

If God existed
it would sure be an arrow
to show me the way.

[chuckie egg]

He guides me, and though
I dont deserve it, He still
draws near when I turn

[chuckie egg]

My face mirrors his
and I lie where he once lay
constant reminders

I'm older than him
but will always be younger
I miss being teased

By seeing them smile
I realise its okay
we'll never forget

[RevEf]

As we crush rappers
Kompressor chew up vocals
and then spit out mush

[jaymirror]

fascinating words
capture us in tricky ways
sometimes unfairly

[rapscalious rob]

does the universe
have a heartbeat of its own?
the night sky twinkles

stars like grains of sand
flow out to infinity
so huge, so distant

our place here on earth
a mote in the majestic
cathedral of space

when my life is done
this is what i will become
this is what we were

[funkytuba]

NYC deletes
edits herself off the board
our hearts remember

[amfromme]

slow quiet sunday
one day closer to monday
do it all again

[rapscalious rob]

4 Kbps
dammit, stupid little berg
slow as a postcard

[chuckie egg]

Here I am again
Thinking myself into you
Unescapable

[daverbee]

Dexter Gordon sings,
Joking with his saxophone!
Laugh on, Dexter, laugh!

[rapscalious rob]

sunlit sentences
lemonade on a hot day
the sound of laughter

[Coffee]

Work on the table
Steals time to read up on friends
darn, missed out on fun

[daverbee]

Valentine's abound
like plump, round, upturned butts.
Red and freshly spanked.

[chuckie egg]

many ups and downs
one day you're close in my arms
the next you're with her

after all I said
you still don't believe its true
wish you'd realise

I wonder whats there
in that mind of yours, are you
teasing me or not

I hate when you cry
and love those eyes when you laugh
they twinkle and smile

[daverbee]

Rained all the way home
The trip was worth the effort
You were by my side

[funkytuba]

wren went to med school:
first in class proctologist
had two hands in Bush

[chuckie egg]

eyelids so heavy
waiting for weekends lie-in
only half way there

[daverbee]

Drive in the last nail.
Quick swipe with some sandpaper.
There! The job is done!

[funkytuba]

crumpled paper loafs
smooshed heap next to wastebasket
origami rock

[chuckie egg]

realising truth
isnt always plain sailing
but still I wonder

[daverbee]

Meditation time
My cat complains beside me
That's what life's about!

[Coffee]

Humid like warm breath
from green crowned heads of Redwoods,
fog drifts like steam.

Pink dots on pavement
Rain spatters on my windshield
Cherry blossom time

[daverbee]

Caffeine poetry

[dinzdale]

"Go-it-alone", Dave,
means you cant leave us waiting
for your conclusion

[daverbee]

Caffeine poetry
Yoiks! Posted to the wrong thread!
Sorry 'bout that, Dinzdale!

[chuckie egg]

reflections of dawn
lie still, in the calm water
colours mirror you

[chuckie egg]

you're all I think of
its slowly consuming me
I shouldn't like it

[chuckie egg]

sing from your stomach
to be heard when sharing mics
wasted energy

[rapscalious rob]

friendly eidolons,
between the crests and the troughs,
fragments, memories

[chuckie egg]

hypocritical
she sits there while I want out
better things to do

[rapscalious rob]

She’s Corona-less,
probably limeless as well;
me, too, I confess.

[chuckie egg]

Two Coronas please?
Don't you dare forget the lime!
Or Rob will be sad

[rapscalious rob]

Thank you, chuckie egg.
Clink our bottles to friendship,
and smiles lost in time.

[lapietra]

the last crumb donette
peeking from its plastic chute
its donut death row


:p

[Gatsby]

It's softly raining
I'm getting really wet now
I think I'll go in

[mememe]

I just want to touch
But the butterflies float by
Just past my fingers

[chuckie egg]

List’ning to you breathe
Ignoring your advances
My mind on one thing

Flesh ripping apart
Unimaginable pain
It was all my fault

Stunned into silence
In awe of Your sacrifice
needed wake up call

A squandered goodbye
Immediate regretting
Why did I do that?

Here I lie awake
With You all over my mind
Anxious and sweating

I’ll miss you this week
This will be the hardest part
Knowing you need help

I wish you’d have said
I’d have held you in my arms
Now we’ll have to wait

Gruelling flashbacks
Every five minutes or so
Melancholy heart

[madasacutsnake]

Caesarean birth
Preternatural error
An interruption

[rapscalious rob]

you do not see me
you see a false assumption,
based on mindless lies

[straymonk]

neon butterfly
floats over Costa Rica
home shall seem less grand

[Dark Chocolate]

this gossamer web
a plexus of scattered souls
was almost brushed out

[lapietra]

little bright-eyed friend
small, furry, warm, vibrating
sitting on my foot

speaks a single sound
so much like a human child
"Can I have some, mom?"

a kiss on each ear
the price for a fresh egg yolk
velvet rose petals

warm animal scent
tummy soft as bunny fur
tail shudders with joy

in a tiny dish
pink tongue laps up bright yellow
eyes closed soft in bliss

grateful soft head butts
soft fur passed against bare legs
soft tail curves caress

[chuckie egg]

united in grief
we stand together and weep
mem'ries flooding back

[funkytuba]

scheduled induction
ends in trauma, c-section
kid's not ready yet

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the day escaped me
but earth turns, and turns again
endless tomorrows

[lapietra]

possibilities
each day brings us something new
growth, perspective, hope

[lapietra]

curiosity
new friends suddenly appear
new worlds to explore

[Spicy Jack]

proud pickle poker
girthy green as good can be
smokes pickles slowly

[lapietra]

loud smickle poker
dirty, mean, intrudes on me
jokes, tickles, gropes me

[Spicy Jack]

soft sickle smoker
gently, slowly, invades me
caressing fingers

[lapietra]

illegal toker
surreptitiously grows plants
sticky, powerful

[dinzdale]

What's with the pickles?
all this smoking and sucking
Euphamistic dill.

[Spicy Jack]

pickle poke envy
don’t worry Dinz it happens
please don’t be ashamed

[dinzdale]

Pickle poke envy
is one of the very few
problems I dont have

[lapietra]

springtime, oversexed
even my neighbor looks good
someone rescue me

thank God for my friends
a margarita or two
and plenty of carbs

Vegas in two weeks!
a margarita or two
and plenty of carbs. :p

[lapietra]

salted margarooo
smirkypat and partypants
god i love them both

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the last autumn moon
and the thinnest veil of cloud
drifting between us

[rapscalious rob]

kitten kittytum
playful punny paw portraits
unique meow miss

[chuckie egg]

that was a close one
too close in fact, for comfort
could have been worse though

[slurpeedemon]

it's good to be here
easier than being there
or be everywhere

[lapietra]

sweet soft silver moon
smiles behind a slice of dark
eyes bent with love-pain

[rapscalious rob]

tender loving kiss
espn overnight
lost in translation

[trisherina]

Hands red and swollen
Joints deformed and sore to touch
Work is never done

[Coffee]

Which is the real truth?
What I did, or what it seemed
from her point of view.

All those polished myths,
Brass mirrors reflecting us
Tarnished by her views.

Drink a bottle now
Think about pain tommorow
Tears are for woosies

[chuckie egg]

as I awaken
and you're sleeping in my arms
I know what I want

[Clytie]

glowing warm at night
sleeping with your silhouette
long distance boyfriend

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the days are so long
and the weeks even longer
insane without you

[Coffee]

Back to the future
the day recedes before me
riding on a train.

[rapscalious rob]

silly, skinny cat
little meow like creaky door
sweety snugglebutt

[Coffee]

Unfelt tug on line
Catch of the day becomes bait
Hammerhead dinner

[TulsaGuy]

Stay the course, he said,
But that way leads to madness.
Time to make a change.

Faction on faction.
Can't we call it civil war?
That's what it is now.

One more day of death
Reported like same old news.
Wars go on too long.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

the thing that you've lost
is hidden in a flower
or so I have read

[Hyakujo's Fox]

a sun more secret
leaves hanging in the balance
the gloom and the light

[harrier]

I think I'm alone
When I laugh at my posts here
Damn it I'm funny.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

shabby piss-stinking
waiting for forgotten change
those such cool glasses

[Hyakujo's Fox]

I dream from a place
far beyond winter's border
you bring me something

[brightpearl]

a black heron moves
each floot slow on the hard floor
no ripple rises

[Marcus Bales]

summer dreams of warm
well-lubricated love of
limber limbs of you

[Marcus Bales]

That’s A Mora

When your syllable
counts aren’t the proper amounts
that’s a mora.

When your words seem to
fight with your meaning, that’s right:
that’s a mora

When your seasonal
word makes your cut word absurd
that’s a mora

When your haiku won’t
form cause a syllable’s norm
ain’t a mora

Anone*, then I
say in the Japanese way
that’s a mora!

*Anone is Japanese, pronounced "an no nay", and means something like "Excuse me" in a sort of semi-rueful "Um, listen ..." sort of way.

.

[Brynn]

Here's something far more
lovely for you to dream on
than you thought was there

[brightpearl]

had my arm ripped off
grew it back by force of will
just to pinch myself

[treekisser]

don't care much anymore
that news on TV is grim
'cause you lift me up

[lukkucairi]

happy is easy
when you're not so goddamn tired
get some sleep, silly!

[treekisser]

give me a tall ship
and a star to steer her by
and I'll soon be lost

[lukkucairi]

what's an archetype?
the freaky guy you dated
in different bodies.

[treekisser]

Find me a lost sole
and I will show you a shoe
without a bottom.

[lukkucairi]

stimulate a tree
arboreal orgasms
we call it autumn

[MoJoRiSin]

bring your shoes to me
and I will give you a new sole
and heel you .fastest

[MoJoRiSin]

his shoes are worn out

[MoJoRiSin]

there is no where left to go

[MoJoRiSin]

his shoes are worn out
there is no where left to go
which thread am i on :)

[treekisser]

lost, lost, all is lost!
alas, my phone is ringing ---
ignore the first line.

[MoJoRiSin]

no one believed er
wen se said se ad no fears
owever, its true

[treekisser]

be good to yourself
Rome wasn't built in a day
and you're not Caesasr

[brightpearl]

no folding this up
I only watch it unfold -
just so - and, just so

[treekisser]

shamelessly dreaming
of voluptuous women
strangle that rooster

[MoJoRiSin]

a brite man he was
the city was named by him
Coeur d’Alene (2)

[trisherina]

a fat cloud skids in
obscuring all the sunshine
at last I can see

[treekisser]

one, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine and ten
bloody sheep. Can't sleep!!

[Hyakujo's Fox]

walking home at night
just my self and the sound of
footsteps beneath me

[Hyakujo's Fox]

an old book of poems -
it is some surprise to find
that the zen rubs off

[Anna]

remember old man
take it you said, but easy
charming confidant

[Odbe]

I live in your arms
these days; weakling, lose my grip
fall, hit your nothing