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Natej11
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Hey everyone, thought it would be fun to play with haiku.

Not sure the exact rules of it, but the general idea is three lines of 5, 7, 5 syllables.

Writing can be hard
I hit backspace oft as space
and then delete file.

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shimiqua
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Sunlight on the keys
Children playing with loud joy
Time to turn it off.

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Robert Nowall
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What are we doing? Haiku can be difficult. I prefer rhyming.

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TaleSpinner
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wikipedia
in sublime obfuscation
defines haiku here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Soul in spirit sings
The Force of Ten Thousand Things
springs universal

less than thirteen lines
five and seven and five and
haiku is published

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Owasm
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Rain from leaden clouds
Pine boughs drip on thirsty soil
New growth for the Spring

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Peering at the screen
Dark thoughts of throwing daggers
Crits are hard to take

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Natej11
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Hey there Owasm
can it be that you play WOW?
I have 2 80s.

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Owasm
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WoW is not my game.
If I must pay for my fun
Elsewhere do I look

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snapper
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Haiku isn't for me
I do not understand it
I make fun instead

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Robert Nowall
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Can I keep this up? Maybe a day or seven. (Shrugs) Maybe, maybe.

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Natej11
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Yeah but IMO
that sixteen dollars a month
same as two movies.

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Robert Nowall
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Are we still on this? Beats posting in Random Thoughts. Should we stick to that?

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TaleSpinner
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Procrastination
To procrastinate or not
Hatrack River calls

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Robert Nowall
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Kinda hot in here. My computer puts out heat. Can you feel it now?

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Natej11
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I think way too much
it just makes me unhappy
drink too much instead?

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snapper
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quote:
I think way too much
it just makes me unhappy
drink too much instead?

Smoking pot cures that
It turns minds into jelly
Thinking decreases

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BenM
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Sound of Autumn leaves.
So my haiku: Silent, Sad.
Limericks the cure!

I once found that WoW game exciting,
with purples and raiding guild fighting.
But get to endgame
and it's all the same.
I've suddenly time for my writing!

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Natej11
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haha it's so true.
I mean BAD, NO LIMERICKS
start your own thread pssh!

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Robert Nowall
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It's nearly sunrise. I'm drinking cans of soda. I need the bathroom.

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Unwritten
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Stumble out of bed
Every day is the same
When I do not write

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Robert Nowall
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Now it's near sunset. It's still too hot to do much. I'm pretty thirsty.

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Bent Tree
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Hot midsummer day
three children splashing water
trying not to burn

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extrinsic
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n time-space whether
observed, unseen, unmeasured
immeasurable

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Zero
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i'll never ever
ever ever ever make
a haiku poem

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InarticulateBabbler
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Her smile is divine -

A journey through the core of me -

They always move me -

I'm just glad it wasn't in Iambic Pentameter.

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InarticulateBabbler
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Zero, yours reminded me of a song from that Rodney Dangerfield cartoon Rover Dangerfield. <--(Song scene.)

A Rodney Dangerfield Haiku:

I played hide and seek -
and they wouldn't look for me -
I get no respect -

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Owasm
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The first season ends
The second season begins
Pro hoops never stop

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Robert Nowall
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Isn't it precious? Five-seven-five poetry. Let's keep it going.

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Natej11
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@extrinsic

How do you define
indefinability?
A lot of big words.

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Zero
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haha! good call, IB

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extrinsic
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quote:
@extrinsic
How do you define
indefinability?
A lot of big words.

With a dictionary or three. Actually, I collect dictionaries and reference books. And my work requires a broad vocabulary.

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Zero
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What is your work?

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extrinsic
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Copyeditor and proofreader, mostly of transcripts for stenographers working in the legal system: depositions, trials, hearings, municipal and legislative proceedings, civil and criminal, higher and lower courts. From divorce to homicide; professional, medical, and legal malpractice; personal injury, child custody, child abuse, contract disputes, any wrongful acts in contention, evaluations for fitness and character, corruption, anything where a written record of spoken evidence is required.

Spring when tempers flare
Summertime for leisure's fee
Winter late discord

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Zero
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Ahh the law... field where brevity and clarity are not valued.

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extrinsic
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Says who? My experience says otherwise. For example, a twenty-year marriage reduced to a few pages of text recording divorce proceedings is a remarkably clear and brief synopsis of a lifetime of trials.

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Kitti
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Wait a minute here
What happened to the haikus?
Count your syllables!

:-)

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Robert Nowall
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Boy, that didn't last. I knew you guys would blow it. Haiku is hard, right?

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Natej11
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Counting is hard right?
Especially to seven.
is that why they stopped?

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InarticulateBabbler
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A novel idea -

Hatrack's thousands of egos -

It will surely drown -

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Zero
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[removed]

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extrinsic
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sniper potshot mark
personal criticisms
wintery shoulders

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Zero
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second chances are
why i can make so many
mistakes all the time

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Unwritten
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I am always late
I get to see the edit
never the scandal

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extrinsic
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hunter harvest moon
cornucopia plenty
fallen leaf and sap

tuckahoe marsh moon
cold before a warm fire
corn gone meager meals

bright corn planting moon
blustering monsoon torrent
budded blossom sap

flint dry welter moon
fish and smoke and laze and dream
sultry green shade ease

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Robert Nowall
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After doing this, haikus are still too easy. I prefer rhyming.

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extrinsic
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haiku sonnet merge?
or lyric tanka in prose
with ode, in cinquain?

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Robert Nowall
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I made lasagna. I burned myself doing it. Splashed up hot water.

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Natej11
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My car got too hot
had to turn around (sad face)
stuck in Spring City.

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Robert Nowall
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The morning passes. I've got to do some writing. Not this, but something.

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Owasm
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The sun burns my eyes
Derisive words from my wife:
Wear sunglasses, fool!

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Zero
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morning always comes
way way way way too early
please let me sleep more

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