Make a MoFo Haiku

My life isn't written very well.

10-23-03

As most of you are truly creative, you must be aware of the ancient form of japanese poetry called Haiku. It is a poem (in it's english form) that consists of three non-rhyming lines that follow a 5-7-5 syllable meter. For instance:

Refreshing shower (5)
Falls from my watering can (7)
Catching a rainbow. (5)

Here's a basic lesson in Haiku:

1. Using no more than 17 syllables.
2. Arranging these often in lines of 5-7-5 syllables
3. Avoiding similes and metaphors
4. Retaining Japanese values

I thought it would be fun to make our own Haiku about Movie Forums, its members, or its spirit. I'll start:

Movie Forums site
Yoda watches over us
We are family

next....

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r66-The member who always asks WHY?

Golgot

there's a frog in my snake oil

10-23-03

I always thought haikus were supposed to represent one visual moment in time. But seeing as we can't do that....

Keyboards clatter
Worlds swing close to eachother
Or bounce off

A mind alive
hotwired to its larger cousin
relates to itself

Gah, i find it so hard not to rhyme! Mmm, nice pretention-recharge tho

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Last edited by Golgot; 10-23-03 at 07:42 PM.

Sexy Celebrity

Registered User

10-23-03

Originally Posted by r3port3r66

Refreshing shower (5)
Falls from my watering can (7)
Catching a rainbow. (5)

I couldn't help but think of how gay that sounds.

Golgot rhymes too much
It's hard to understand him
But he'll get better

or...

Hello, how are you?
I'm Sexy Celebrity
This is my Haiku

or...

I am Django
I live in California
Teach me about kink!

Revenant

I'm a yo-yo

10-23-03

A Haiku this is
Although not very clever
Totally rubbish.

Full of nuts and dolts
Mofo is a crazy place
The weak shall perish.

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'My mind is full of stars....'

r3port3r66

My life isn't written very well.

10-23-03

These are great guys! I hope you keep them coming!

Sexy Celebrity

Registered User

10-23-03

A glass of iced tea
The waiter is very hot
Spill your drink on him

Piddzilla

I am having a nervous breakdance

10-23-03

Smoking gun in hand
Brains splattered all over walls
I am a free man

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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".

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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.

Yoda

Administrator

10-23-03

I went through a bizarre haiku-writing phase early this year (it was part of a larger time-killing phase). This one was my favorite (writing a haiku that rhymes, though perhaps outside the rules, is exponentially more difficult, I found):

Two marbles which see.
Green, blue, brown. They dart around.
Then they fix on me.

Golgot

there's a frog in my snake oil

10-23-03

Originally Posted by Sexy Celebrity

Hello, how are you?
I'm Sexy Celebrity
This is my Haiku

Haha, you rhymed! You see, it's catching! (the wink comes later

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Originally Posted by Sexy Celebrity

A glass of iced tea
The waiter is very hot
Spill your drink on him

r3port3r66

My life isn't written very well.

10-23-03

Members here enjoy
Reviews and such things written
Golgots posts are long

7thson

AMC Ape

10-25-03

Alas my sweet friend
Time is coming to an end
So count not thy sins

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Golgot