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Haiku Battle

Lumi · 2011-02-04T00:28:34Z

Note: This is not in need of reviews as it is not a literary work. This is a game-type activity. Here's a poetry exercise to sharpen our description with as few words as possible. Could that mean Haiku? That's right, folks. We here at the poetry forum are gonna duke it out--not with swords or guns, but with words. Seventeen syllables worth, to be precise. If you're not aware of what a Haiku is, here's a quick note: Haiku is a form of poetry consisting of three lines, respectively measuring 5/7/5 in beats. A Haiku is typically about nature, and more often than not denotes a particular season in which the poem takes place (though it doesn't have to, by any means). They're beautiful things, and, while small, can take masterful lyricists to craft. Senryu are similar, although they deal with more human ideas/emotions/situations. They're my personal favorite. Same format. So this is our battle, poets! The task is simple: merely post a Haiku or Senryu. The major hitch of the exercise is that the first line of your poem must feed off of the last line of the one above yours. The entire poem may be different, but they'll all be connected. One huge Poem Chain. To begin: Downpours in the south make rivers strong as wildfire; April boasts its strength.

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Tue May 13, 2014 9:47 am

Dracula says... · Tue May 13, 2014 9:47 am

We humans can't win
Apollo is the hot god
Of random haikus

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Tue May 13, 2014 10:03 am

Hannah says... · Tue May 13, 2014 10:03 am

When Apollo dies
there will still be heat and song:
humans made the gods.

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Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:32 am

Aley says... · Sun Oct 19, 2014 3:32 am

Apollo fell from
the skies to Earth, a fire
stone, not made by us.

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Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:32 pm

Rook says... · Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:32 pm

Who made the quarries
that we mine for strength, which we
deplete like forests?

Instead, he said, Brother! I know your hunger.
To this, the Wolf answered, Lo!

-Elena Passarello, Animals Strike Curious Poses

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Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:40 am

Dracula says... · Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:40 am

Wibbly wobbly stuff
Falls on the land where we live
Timey wimey stuff

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. I got depressed because I thought Damn, I am less nurturing than a desert.
-Demetri Martin

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Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:49 am

Zolen says... · Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:49 am

Through madness I bloom -5
Through sanity I stagnate -7
I am not quite real -5

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Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:59 pm

Terian805 says... · Thu Mar 19, 2015 7:59 pm

Flies in majesty.
Crashes into the blueness.
And leaves with a catch.

My attempt at a Haiku about an Osprey!

"You can't live over your shoulder, overbehind."

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Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:51 pm

Que says... · Thu Mar 19, 2015 9:51 pm

Unavoidable
Swift retribution takes you
Nature will fight back

Parlez-vous français?

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Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:54 pm

Paprika says... · Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:54 pm

You stain like smoke on
lungs, I just can't seem to cough
you out of my mind.

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Sat Jun 13, 2015 6:07 am

bluewaterlily says... · Sat Jun 13, 2015 6:07 am

Her brain was hungry
She ate too many large words
They slowly choked her.

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." - W.H. Auden

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Mon Jul 20, 2015 3:59 am

fukase says... · Mon Jul 20, 2015 3:59 am

It is yellow, right?

Smiling on some sentences

It also cry, right?

I love Koku.
He is damn cute and should be the main character
and not some lazy old man that supposedly genius but a sucker in his own life.
Koku is Koku.
Koku is CUTE.
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Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:59 am

DukeofWonderland says... · Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:59 am

mustard fields

Sheets of yellow blend
into the fog, over my
winter morning tea

"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it
regularly went cuckoo."
-- Terry Pratchett, "Wyrd Sisters"

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Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:27 pm

erilea says... · Sat Oct 03, 2015 10:27 pm

My fingers do their
own dance over the keys, and
leap into the end.

Was *wisegirl22*Artemis28*Lupa22*

focus on... enjoying happy moments

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Fri May 03, 2019 5:49 pm

alliyah says... · Fri May 03, 2019 5:49 pm

and if we must leap
from cliffs, let's jump eyes open
and never look back.

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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Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:04 pm

The_McCracken says... · Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:04 pm

looking up ahead
nothing but darkness in sight
who turned out the light

unleash the McCracken!

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