The Infinite Haiku

[damellon]

a line of poets
just like a line of cocaine
is bad for your head

Is bad for your head
a hurricane for the heart
a storm for the soul

[damellon]

Paula - have you been airbrushed from history? What happened to
a plaice for fish, a
storm in a teacup, haddock
soup for the sole's soul
?

[Paula]

I don't really understand the making of a Haiku Damellon and I didn't want to ruin the flow in case my contribution was not actually perceived as part of it.

Give me a potted explaination of Haiku's please

[damellon]

Paula

My limited knowledge is that it has 3 lines. First line has 5 syllables, second line has 7 syllables, third line has 5 syllables, so the pattern is 5-7-5. Ideally there is a reference to Nature in it and some tie-in between that and a not too obvious discovery you've made. Andrew McGeever on the serious Haiku thread gives this as an example -
A fallen flower
returning to the branch?
It was a butterfly

As you can see in this thread we haven't abided by the rule of including some natural element, but this is supposed to be fun, so we're allowed, I think. In this never - ending Haiku your first line must be the previous entry's last line.
Hope this helps. Join in.

[Manna]

soup for the sole's soul
was never made of chicken
it was butterflies

[Birdonawire]

It was butterflies
Dancing as fire through sunset;
innumerable

[William]

innumerable
naturalised poets shed
their inhibitions

[damellon]

innumerable
naturalised poets shed
their inhibitions

Their inhibitions
lost in the potting shed like
Lady Chatterley's

[mickey_one]

innumerable
naturalised poets shed
their inhibitions

Their inhibitions
lost in the potting shed like
Lady Chatterley's

Lady Chatterley's
fucked the game keeper Mellor
Lawrence best -seller

[jimbo]

laurence best seller
of naked gardener washing
observed by lady lust

[mickey_one]

laurence best seller
of naked gardener washing
observed by lady lust

errr, your middle line has 8 syllables, your last line has 6 or 7.

you could keep to your meaning, and the "rules" by changing it to

Lawrence best seller
naked gardener washing
ob seen lady lust

[damellon]

'gardener' pronounced gardner by some, so that may be the problem. Maybe 'seen by Lady Lust', Jimbo?

[mickey_one]

'gardener' pronounced gardner by some, so that may be the problem. Maybe 'seen by Lady Lust', Jimbo?

yes, you are right- there is no need to fuss when many would pronounce "gardener" as 2 syllables. but i still prefer "ob seen by Lady Lust"

[damellon]

yes M_1 - if you say 'ob seen Lady Lust', but the last one you wrote says 'ob seen by Lady Lust' but it has 1 too many syllables! -unless in aristocratic circles 'Lady' is abridged to 1 syllable ...now I'm being picky!
Did you disqualify Martine? No sign of her today.

[lizzytysh]

Perhaps, his counting never made it past 'laid.'


~ Lizzy