I have to say it. Rick in the first panel is the single greatest thing ever. Greatest haiku, greatest use of Rick's picture. New Rick is quite tragic by comparison. No haiku for you Words dripping with irony I follow suit. Damn!
My favorite haiku is "hide and seek / count to three / winter comes " (it's a haiku before you translate to english.) It's quite sad, really. That little kid standing there until winter. Manly tears...
you guys have it all WRONG! haiku isn't just a 5-7-5 poem about ANYTHING, it's about an expression of one's perception of nature, with a heavy use of imagery!
For the information of the readers a Haiku is specifically about nature any mentions of any man-made object makes the poem a Senryu. Also a Haiku/Senryu should create a picture in one's mind and the last line should create an 'ah-ha' moment for example:
Beautiful splendor In every natural shade Glorious Sunset
I remember learning about haiku in my Asian Lit course in college. The first thing I learned is that if you stick to the syllable count, haiku doesn't work in English---there's too much description, because English words tend to be much shorter than Japanese words, and that basically defeats the point of traditional Japanese art, where what isn't shown or described is as important (or even more important) than what is.
October 7, 2007
Reader Comments (41)
Haiku!
Geshudteit.
Haiku. Cannot think.
My story of writer's block.
Utter tragedy.
Hey guys. What is up?
What is up with the spaces?
I am confused now.
Most haikus are gay.
All haikus are pathetic.
"Gay", as in Boy George.
(no handcuffs were harmed in the making of this haiku).
http://community.livejournal.com/scifhaiku/
Ha. Very funny.
What will he think of next, I
wonder? Guess we'll see.
Any moron can
Write haiku. Just stop at the
Seventeenth syllab
basic instructions:
meyer's unexamined life
is not worth living.
I have to say it. Rick in the first panel is the single greatest thing ever. Greatest haiku, greatest use of Rick's picture. New Rick is quite tragic by comparison.
No haiku for you
Words dripping with irony
I follow suit. Damn!
five syllables, then
seven, then five syllables
blah blah fucking blah
(thanks to The Onion)
Haikus are easy
But they don't always make sense
Refrigerator
I wrote a haiku
only to be told it is
pronounced ha-i-ku.
(Yes I feel a strange
compulsion to reply to
mentions of haiku.)
Occurs all the time:: One person writes a haiku and all do the same. Argh :) I can't resist, but I'll try to hide it by not writing in verse.
last frame is so true
the president of europe
writes often haiku's
The last panel made my day... a friend of mine and myself have an ongoing limerick-haiku war. Well played, Scott Meyer...
This is poetry.
Technically, you can't deny:
I wrote a haiku.
"Haiku" by Tally Hall: Fun little song! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICtFeTGsMOo
Expressing yourself
With seventeen syllables
Is very diffic-
Uh, shouldn't that say "Adams" not "Adamas"?
i love all these comment haikus
...and so was Rick's in panel 1
I'm easily impressed.
I wrote a Haiku.
Now everyone will like me
and make love to me.
....Right?
T-shirts with haikus.
They're kind of overated,
But I'm wearing one.
Look at these comments!
There are too many haikus!
Now there is one more.
Not all haikus made
Have to have seven or five
If I remember
Haikus are not that
poetic in my book. So
I won't try.
Haiku are viral
As all reading it write more
Spreading the word plague
My favorite haiku is "hide and seek / count to three / winter comes " (it's a haiku before you translate to english.) It's quite sad, really. That little kid standing there until winter. Manly tears...
This is a haiku,
but there's one error in it.
good luck finding it.
I just made you count out syllables. THROUGH THE INTERNET.
you guys have it all WRONG! haiku isn't just a 5-7-5 poem about ANYTHING, it's about an expression of one's perception of nature, with a heavy use of imagery!
Mitch is very right
His comment hurts my nature
Now I get him back
I think it is weird
When one person writes haiku
Everyone else does
Haikus are so fun
But they don't always make sense
Refrigerator
This looks like haiku
It seems like it is haiku
But it's not
Haiku's are meant to include seasonal imagery. If they don't, don't bother. Especially in English.
For the information of the readers a Haiku is specifically about nature any mentions of any man-made object makes the poem a Senryu. Also a Haiku/Senryu should create a picture in one's mind and the last line should create an 'ah-ha' moment for example:
Beautiful splendor
In every natural shade
Glorious Sunset
I remember learning about haiku in my Asian Lit course in college. The first thing I learned is that if you stick to the syllable count, haiku doesn't work in English---there's too much description, because English words tend to be much shorter than Japanese words, and that basically defeats the point of traditional Japanese art, where what isn't shown or described is as important (or even more important) than what is.
Adama is from
Battlestar Galactica.
Writer's Mormon, see?
(Then again, I'm not sure I buy that angle.)
Haiku, senryu,
Let's not split hairs over this
It's all in good fun.
Authentic haiku
Ought to invoke a season
Unlike Burma-Shave
Haikus are awesome
But some don't make any sense.
Refrigerator.
bald head, leafless branch,
missing the point can be fun,
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