by ghenrymt 19 Replies latest social entertainment
Quiet, dark midnight
Stars shine clearly and brightly
Aurora dances
... doggerel
Post your own ...
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Haunted evenings,
Watching life slipping away.
Oh, to turn the tide.
Generic haiku:
Five in the first line,
Seven in the second line
Five again to end.
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"Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything." -Robert A. Heinlein
An extra haiku rule:
And when you add up
Pluralising "s"'s don't
Count As syllabuls
Leave the borg right now
Get out of her my people
Die Watchtower Die!
J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Souls
Soul in my body
sleeping, wraith and diety
moonlight on water.
Thermonuclear
their origins; projected
spaceward - solar flares
Murky and unclear
their destiny, dejected
refugees seek hope
It's 2,3,4,5
acetooxymercur-
ithiophene, yep!
Okay, I know I'm weird.
Do you find it risible?
Actually, as I recall, the chemical was 2,3,4,5 TETRAacetooxymercurithiophene. I had to dump a couple of syllables. Even most professional chemists probably wouldn't notice.
I read somewhere that the 5/7/5 syllable pattern is not a hard-and-fast rule, but the poem must be 17 syllables or less. and the poem must be about nature. If it's about something other than nature, then it's considered a different poetic form.
I need to learn more about the oriental poetic forms.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery
than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
An anti-haiku:
Silly haiku rule!
Need it be about nature?
So many subjects!
J.R.Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
