Do you.. Haiku?

[Roemello]

Simple poetry about anything you desire... whatever random thoughts enter your mind at the moment in the format of 3 lines... 5 syllables on the first, 7 on the second and 5 on the last.


Thanksgiving coming
House clean with food awaiting
Want to nom turkey

[Nakor]

やりやすい
俳句を書くの
これでいい？

Romaji:

Yariyasui (Easy to do)
Haiku o kaku no (Writing haikus is)
Kore de ii? (Is this okay?)

もう冬だ
新たなアニメ
が来てるよ

Romaji:

Mou fuyu da (It's already winter)
Arata na anime (New anime)
Ga kiteru yo (Is coming)

[coffeehound]

NM

[Roemello]

Night envelopes me
Sitting, chatting, enjoying
My Queen's company

[Nakor]

やる全部
天井猫が
見ているぞ

Romaji:

Yaru zenbu (Everything you do)
Tenjou Neko ga (Celing cat is)
Miteiru zo (Watching)

[Roemello]

I wouldn't have known without the translations, but now that I see.... The trick to the haiku is that they're supposed to be of the

5 syllable
7 syllable
5 syllable

format Unless there's other formats of Haiku I'm not aware of... then those work!

[Diabolique]

Night envelopes me
Sitting, chatting, enjoying
My Queen's company

[Nakor]

Trust me, I know what a haiku is; they are Japanese to begin with.

The ones I posted are 5/7/5. You just have to understand how Japanese syllables work. Tenjou for example is a 4-syllable word in Japanese. TE-N-JO-U. The extended vowels—and that solo N—are syllables on their own. Haiku in Japanese are written using these sounds in 5/7/5 pattern—not Western style syllables.

There are actually other types of haiku (including types of poems that are longer, and involve haiku in them), however mine are of the standard 17-syllable (or perhaps better said 17-on) variety.

The wiki entry has lots of information on haiku, and other similar forms of oriental poetry.

The poems again with the Japanese syllables separated:

MO-U FU-YU DA
A-RA-TA NA A-NI-ME
GA KI-TE-RU YO

YA-RI-YA-SU-I
HA-I-KU O KA-KU NO
KO-RE DE I-I

YA-RU ZE-N-BU
TE-N-JO-U NE-KO GA
MI-TE-I-RU ZO

[Roemello]

That's what I figured at first, but then the translations were off, so I wasn't sure If it ain't english, I have no idea what the syllables are doing

[Frong]

This is a haiku
With seventeen syllables
I just made it up



Well, not really. I technically made that up back in creative writing class senior year in high school, but it's not any less of a haiku for it. I happen to be really good at this, btw.

日本語で
勿論出来る
俳句など

This one I really did just make up right now... desu.

[Ninexpert]

I wake, go to work
Watch my screen for eight long hours
I go home, rejoice

[Frong]

For my thrilling job,
I sit at a screen all day
and type about spoons.

Although technically,
I don't type JUST about spoons;
there are glasses, too.

Seriously, though,
we sell restaurant supplies
to lots of places.

So next time you go
out to eat in Ohio,
you might use our stuff.



I should think by now,
you would be well aware of
my mad skillz at this.

Each haiku only
takes me like fifteen seconds,
or maybe thirty.

Here is a good one
that I got from my sister.
This is how it goes:

"Haikus are easy,
but sometimes, they don't make sense.
Refrigerator."

Now, apparently,
you can get t-shirts with that.
Yay for internets.

[Nakor]

Want to renga frong?
We won't follow all the rules.
Only the verse lengths.

[Frong]

So my first thought was,
"We're doing who with what now?"
Had to look this up.

Yeah, we can try it.
Guess it's like alternating
long and short verses.

So am I starting?
Or did you want to do that?
Whichever way works.

[Nakor]

Okay, I'll begin.
One more person would help though,
So we switch verse lengths.

With just two people,
One is always seven/seven,
One five/seven/five.

So if anyone,
Would like to join our renga,
Feel free to join!

To join the renga,
Post the next verse of the poem.
Long then short then long.

(In a renga, the first verse is 5/7/5 syllables and the second is 7/7 syllables. Each verse you alternate between the two lengths. Technically there's fancy rules about nature words and conjunctives, but we'll ignore those.)

RENGA STARTETH HERE:

Once upon a time,
In the Roundtable kingdom,
There lived a great knight.