@aetris
That’s only OK for a Haiku.
The scapegoat won’t even say fuck you.
Limericks, on the other hand,
the Mehtizens will take a stand,
and hate fails of syllabic kung-fu.
Haiku are kind of a joke nowadays, but for anyone interested in poetry, it’s pretty fascinating to read up on the original rules of the form, not just the 5-7-5 syllable thing. At their best they’re delicacy and compression incarnate.
Way (way!) back in sixth grade, my class was doing a section on poetry, which included a few days of haiku. My buddy and I were bored and chose to express our inner haijin in a provocative way. These two gems were culled by the teacher from our works to be included, along with the other odes to kittens, sunny summer days and someone’s shiny red bicycle, in the class poetry collection that was printed and distributed to the students.
The last bit of flesh
Rotted off the skeleton
Yippee! Dinner time!
The deadly quicksand
Asphyxiates its victim
I’ll get the popcorn
@macromeh Ooooh! My kind of kids, and my kind of teacher! “Back in my day” I was the one who kept “gettin’ a talkin’ to” for the unconventional lyrics of stuff I sang on the playground, which were much in the same vein. Contrary to expectations, I did not turn into a serial killer, nor (unfortunately) a successful writer of horror novels. But I do still have the same twisted sense of humor that often gets a reaction.
@llangley@macromeh@rockblossom haha… Wasn’t me but I was definitely weird in school. I still remember a teacher had given us a project where we could basically write about whatever we wanted. I wrote about Marilyn Manson.
@mehbee or your last line, based on todays deal, could be (wrecking your nice image ): Vacuum sucks them up.
I actually did that once with fruit flies, then left the vac indoors. So they all escaped. Duh. On my rinse and repeat I left the vac outside so they all escaped there.
Get your haikus ready for tomorrow!
Not this shit again.
Every year the same old shit.
It makes sense, it’s Meh.
You think that you can
Pick on one goat all month long
Well, you’re prob’ly right
@nolrak Why not go with: You’re probably right.
@cinoclav prob’ly looks fancier, and a haiku about Meh needs all the fancy it can get
Goat antics, day 3
A haiku for Story time?
Or more yet, @nolrak?
Why do we do this?
I will mention a flower
That makes it haiku
@mehcuda67 yesssss, somebody knows more than one thing about true haiku
A haiku for Meh?
I’ll post one in the forum
Fuck counting syllables
@carl669
@aetris
That’s only OK for a Haiku.
The scapegoat won’t even say fuck you.
Limericks, on the other hand,
the Mehtizens will take a stand,
and hate fails of syllabic kung-fu.
@nolrak bleat bleat.
@mediocrebot @nolrak Shouldn’t that be:
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
bleat bleat bleat bleat bleat
@aetris @mike808 Now you write a full limerick?!
@aetris
A blessing…for the Czar?!
“…may God bless and keep the czar…far away from us!”
Ахал бы дядя, на себя глядя
So, August the third.
Good day to post a Haiku,
But I don’t know one!
Haikus are easy
but sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator
@jester747
When one says that word,
I think of my chilled batt’ries,
As everyone should.
Haiku are kind of a joke nowadays, but for anyone interested in poetry, it’s pretty fascinating to read up on the original rules of the form, not just the 5-7-5 syllable thing. At their best they’re delicacy and compression incarnate.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Here’s Richard Wright following the usual patterns in English:
Whitecaps on the bay:
A broken signboard banging
In the April wind
My anniversary? Thanks for the reminder!
@blaineg That’s a terrible Haiku.
My anniversary?
Thanks for the reminder, Meh!
NOW it’s a haiku.
@rockblossom
/giphy bows
Mediocrity
That terrible privilege
Abundant at Meh
A discount, oh my!
What the fuck did I just buy?
Just more crap from Meh.
@carl669
Way (way!) back in sixth grade, my class was doing a section on poetry, which included a few days of haiku. My buddy and I were bored and chose to express our inner haijin in a provocative way. These two gems were culled by the teacher from our works to be included, along with the other odes to kittens, sunny summer days and someone’s shiny red bicycle, in the class poetry collection that was printed and distributed to the students.
The last bit of flesh
Rotted off the skeleton
Yippee! Dinner time!
The deadly quicksand
Asphyxiates its victim
I’ll get the popcorn
Our mothers were, um, somewhat disquieted.
@macromeh Ooooh! My kind of kids, and my kind of teacher! “Back in my day” I was the one who kept “gettin’ a talkin’ to” for the unconventional lyrics of stuff I sang on the playground, which were much in the same vein. Contrary to expectations, I did not turn into a serial killer, nor (unfortunately) a successful writer of horror novels. But I do still have the same twisted sense of humor that often gets a
reaction.
@macromeh @rockblossom LOL…I had to check who posted this. Imagine my shock that it wasn’t @riotdemon
.
We are a twisted bunch…
@llangley @macromeh @rockblossom haha… Wasn’t me but I was definitely weird in school. I still remember a teacher had given us a project where we could basically write about whatever we wanted. I wrote about Marilyn Manson.
The grade I got was:
“A, but why MM?”
Because I could, duh.
So I’m a day late
And at least a dollar short
So I won’t buy. meh.
Haikus, I was told,
Must contain a seasonal
reference. Winter.
Hot and humid air
Kids chasing lightening bugs
Summer in the South
@mehbee or your last line, based on todays deal, could be (wrecking your nice image
): Vacuum sucks them up.
I actually did that once with fruit flies, then left the vac indoors. So they all escaped. Duh. On my rinse and repeat I left the vac outside so they all escaped there.