A couple of Haiku in response to Colleen’s weekly challenge
I think just a few haiku this week…
Eagles soar above
young chicks wait with hungry mouths
blood covered talons
Perhaps Ill try another with a different spelling…
Gall stones killing me
Sore? it’s bloody agony
overweight you see
More?
More limericks about sad things
Haiku Challenge – Hope and Stay
The intergalactic language of tea – Daily Prompt
just a few thoughts before I start the day
Just a few thoughts on the hotel before we head out and see what the day has to hold.
Other peoples kids
Drunkards bouncing down the hall
Flatulent neighbours
Four people one room
A night time cocophony
Really need a nap
Lying in my bed
Inches from another soul
In another room
Please shut your kids up
Next time we go up market
Tired and grumpy
Right…im off for an ice cream and to dip my toes in the icy north sea. I will let you know how it goes.
Just a few haiku, but no t so serious…
Dream guy, takes him home
so magnetic and charming
turns out hes married
Passion overwhelms
the neighbours call the police
curtains were open
married ten years
what happened to romance. She:
close the bathroom door!
Chinese for dinner
kung po pork or king prawn foo?
all tastes same to me
I hate you haiku
syllables, five seven five
screw you I’m doing six
Day one of diet
Went for a massive curry
ill start tomorrow
want something different?
Even more limericks on sombre topics. Probably not for kids…
Be wary of strangers on the internet, just saying…
The rules of this challenge are pretty simple, create a Haiku, a Tanka or a Haibun on the subjects of Shadow and Light. I try these each week, let’s see how this week’s efforts turn out shall we. I’m going to try be serious, honest. I know they’re meant to be about nature and such but I do like to use them to try and tell a shortened story too.
Ill start with a haiku…
He craves her darkness
His light consumed by her will
Turns out shes a man
Hmm…not sure where that came from? Maybe some more detail added through the medium of a Tanka, pretty much a haiku with extra lines expressing my feelings on the first 5 lines. But I don’t think its strictly a rule.
He craves her darkness
His light consumed by her will
Turns out shes a man
A Nigerian you say?
Cannot get his money back
Ok, so as a story it’s evolving., I am not allowing myself the luxury of a rewrite, I’ll see where it all goes in the Haibun. Never done one of these before and it’s late so might play loose with the rules a bit.
The endless click of the keyboard, day and night, reaching out with twinkling eyes and sweet smile. Lonely hearts embraced and dreams force fed foul lies and rancid hope. Offers of that which is lost, never had or which remained unknown are his to freely give and without compassion he loves and lusts and smiles at family photos and brushes his hair from his face and tells you how shy she is. A first thought with the sun, and good nights murmured into salty pillows bookend the time apart and the minutes until they will be together at last. They are lines he has used many times over, but well worn and trusted they pull at heart strings and ignite passions satisfied in the night.
He craves her darkness
His light consumed by her will
Turns out shes a man
A Nigerian you say?
Cannot get his money back
Cold beers, new clothes and food on the table, you are a good boy – you make your mother proud. Each day is full of promise, each night opportunity presents itself ripe and ready to be plucked and devoured with sweet juice covered chins laughing. Flights are costly, but can you put a price on love.
Well that all turned out a bit weird didn’t it. Oh well, it is what it is. Bed time!
There are some previous efforts here
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 45 – #Tanka: Honey and Wine
Colleen’s Weekly #Poetry Challenge # 44 – #Haiku: HUNT & FIND
A haiku challenge on the matter of “taste”
A few scribbles in response to the haiku challenge found at the link below.
https://haikuhorizons.wordpress.com/2017/08/20/haiku-horizons-prompt-taste/
Fighting with the wife
Me: “You’ve awful taste ! She:
“Yeah I married you!”
Lets try another…
Just a tiny taste
Maybe just one more mouth full
whole cake devoured
And one last one
First stolen kisses
The taste of her lips on mine
Oh god a smoker
Fancy More?
Crude, infantile and fun to write. Gotta be better than what’s going on in the world right?
Crude, infantile and fun to write. Gotta be better than what’s going on in the world right?
Cannibals in love
“How do you feel about kids?”
“can’t eat a whole one”
First day of diet
Accidental carrot cake
I’ll start tomorrow
Spicy curry night
poppadoms and spicy dip
explosive repeats
miles from a toilet
buttocks clenched eyes watering
oh look a turtle!
having a fiddle
mood gone, discovered a lump
testicle lopped off
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Ronovan’s weekly haiku challenge – Hope and Stay
Let’s start with a haiku or two shall shall we. The rules do let me play with synonyms which I might explore too.
In my heart you’ll stay
you drift into the darkness
hope of afterlife
seems a bit serious..
walked her home tonight
Invited in for coffee
hope she lets me stay
another maybe
husband caught, hope lost
empty promises to change
if you let him stay
All very serious…maybe a Tanka
See Maurice eating
watch him gorge on cheese in bed
eats cake in the night
Where can he get new trousers
ones with the elastic waist
Hmmm….not really feeling it.
These ones we kind of funny if you fancy more
The challenge was to write a Tanka (effectively a haiku with two additional 7 lines tagged on) and include the words “Honey” and “Wine”.
TANKA
The challenge was to write a Tanka (effectively a haiku with two additional 7 lines tagged on) and include the words “Honey” and “Wine”. I think the first 3 are meant to set the scene and the next two express how I feel about it. Not really cracked that bit yet…
I found this one rather tricky.
Sweet honey goodness
runs slowly into my mouth
No diet today
My inner Pooh bear unleashed
Wine fuelled hunger satisfied
Let’s try another
Wine poured, candles lit
Honey, let’s go to bed
Whipped cream, Ice, hand cuffs
This is not like fifty shades
the bloody sheets are ruined
Let’s try a more serious one…
Summer sun shining
Sweet scent of honey suckle
Warm winds on soft skin
Wilful seduction like wine
Warming caress on my lips
Meh…
Maybe I will try something different next week 😊
Fancy something different?
The point of these? I cant remember to be honest, I think perhaps it’s turning into a defiling of the haiku form really.
Some days the best I can muster is a handful of rather poor and inappropriate haiku. Today is one of those.
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The point of these? I cant remember to be honest, I think perhaps it’s turning into a defiling of the haiku form really.
First day of diet
ate a whole box of meringues
maybe tomorrow
Bottle of vodka
turns out I’m not the batman
seems I cannot fly
Wakes up, strange bed, her
Face like a thick pool of sick
damn beer goggles
Kids used my toothbrush
scrubbed the toilet bowl with theirs
dysentery, oops.
Not sure about these
Off to research haiku verse
I’m sorry Japan
For something a little more pleasant you might possibly like this…
I’m going to give this Tanka lark a go, never done one of those before. I might even do a few. Think Haiku with a couple more 7 syllable lines tossed in for good measure.
I’m going to give this Tanka lark a go, never done one of those before. I might even do a few. Think Haiku with a couple more 7 syllable lines tossed in for good measure…
We hunt the dark skies
searching for a sign of life
but what if we find?
watching people lose their minds
religion out the window
Lurking somewhere safe
I hunt but I cannot find
somewhere forgotten
Has anyone seen my keys?
I’m already late for work!
Summer holiday
kids want to go in the pool
hunt for the factor 50
man boobs jiggling in the sun
cannot find my self esteem
Hmmm…not sure I’m cut out for serious endeavours such as this…you can read about my previous encounter with the traditional haiku here.
Look can you see mike
hunt everywhere for a wife
he finds a girlfriend
dates her and took her doggy
out to the park for a walk
Ohhhh…First 3 lines are meant to set the scene, last 2 express how It makes me feel. Let’s try again.
Watch children growing
find their own path in this life
from boys to young men
Tidy your bloody bedroom
and take a shower you stink!
difficult to find
I hunt for my inner voice
must write a Tanka
maybe this isn’t for me
think I’ll just go have breakfast
Picture courtesy of tombud @ pixabay.
On Mondays I like to allow myself a little more freedom from the discipline of the more structured writing schedule that I have set for myself and simply do something stupid.
On Mondays I like to allow myself a little more freedom from the discipline of the more structured writing schedule that I have set for myself and do something different. I normally like to dabble with a variety of fiction pieces but Not on Monday, oh no
The challenge of packing emotive imagery into 17 syllables is quite a test, which is perhaps why they seem so daunting and often so very serious. A limerick on the other hand is quite the opposite, filled with such joy and whimsy.
Today I shall attempt to write some haiku that are not serious at all serious.
Hot spicy curry
Arse like a Japanese flag
oh no not again
In the house naked
Wife and kids on vacation
Beer for breakfast
Leaving work in shame
Stomach flu going around
Gambled on a fart
Wife screams in horror
Dogs humping in the garden
Cover children’s eyes
Loud knock at the door
Dancing in the house naked
Police “Close curtains!”
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