Haiku Train

BarrettBenedict · 2009-04-26T07:14:14Z

This is pretty simple and can be lots of fun. The premise is you take the last line of the haiku before yours and make it the first as yours. It doesn't necessarily have to be the exact line either. If you can cleverly change it in subtle ways so that it rhymes or sounds the same that is also cool. Example: This is a haiku five, seven, five syllables would be the format ... could be a doormat were it not for the large head must be tiger's skin etc. So here's a starter haiku: old film reels rotate monochrome images of what dogs imagine

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Tue May 24, 2022 3:46 am

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 3:46 am

You are a sinner!
Birds cut my fingers, and they
Burn my old forests

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Tue May 24, 2022 4:16 am

alliyah says... · Tue May 24, 2022 4:16 am

burn my old forests,
drown my seashore, you won't win,
for i am the wind.

you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now

but i have promised to return

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Tue May 24, 2022 4:31 am

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 4:31 am

for I am the wind
in your wings and the breath in
your lungs, small songbird

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Tue May 24, 2022 4:58 am

alliyah says... · Tue May 24, 2022 4:58 am

small songbird, your lungs
must carry stolen sun, for
your songs dance like light

you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now

but i have promised to return

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Tue May 24, 2022 9:08 am

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 9:08 am

Your songs dance like light
Like a sunny night burning
Purple thunderstorms

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Tue May 24, 2022 9:25 am

Starve says... · Tue May 24, 2022 9:25 am

Purple thunderstorms
flash across night's pitch curtains,
a cosmic vaudeville.

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NewHope

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Tue May 24, 2022 10:25 am

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 10:25 am

A cosmic vaudeville
Of nebulas breathing dust
And birthing new stars

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Tue May 24, 2022 11:31 am

Kelisot says... · Tue May 24, 2022 11:31 am

And birthing new stars
This cycle starts all over
Let me end this pain

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Tue May 24, 2022 1:10 pm

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 1:10 pm

Let me end this pain
Like a whiplash to my back
Fly, bird, fly away

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Tue May 24, 2022 1:25 pm

Valkyria says... · Tue May 24, 2022 1:25 pm

Fly, bird. Fly away.
Chase the wind to tomorrow;
don't forget the moon.

There is always something left to love.
- One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Tue May 24, 2022 5:05 pm

alliyah says... · Tue May 24, 2022 5:05 pm

don't forget the moon,
the sun gives her morning prayer;
she's so oft forgot.

you should know i am a time traveler &
there is no season as achingly temporary as now

but i have promised to return

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Kelisot

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Tue May 24, 2022 5:34 pm

Kelisot says... · Tue May 24, 2022 5:34 pm

She's so oft forgot
My memories fade away
Becoming paper

I like Gabber. I recommend that you should also listen to it.

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NewHope

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Tue May 24, 2022 5:42 pm

NewHope says... · Tue May 24, 2022 5:42 pm

Becomes paper
That scratches and tears like screams
Under the lunar lights

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Kelisot

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Tue May 24, 2022 11:31 pm

Kelisot says... · Tue May 24, 2022 11:31 pm

Under the lunar lights
Sacrilegious actions performed
Malice sprouts a death

I like Gabber. I recommend that you should also listen to it.

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NewHope

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Wed May 25, 2022 3:50 am

NewHope says... · Wed May 25, 2022 3:50 am

Malice sprouts a death;
Plague sprouts a land, a death;
Water to blood clots.

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