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

NewHope

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Fri May 20, 2022 5:41 am

NewHope says... · Fri May 20, 2022 5:41 am

Spoiler

I mean yesterday we prayed for the Jews who died during the Holocaust. I am not anti-Jewish… I have been in a Jewish school for 10 years.

It’s poetry time
As I sit under a tree
With a cup of tea

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Starve

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Fri May 20, 2022 12:06 pm

Starve says... · Fri May 20, 2022 12:06 pm

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My apologies then.

With a cup of tea
and a park bench in late June
I make time go back

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Kelisot

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Fri May 20, 2022 12:14 pm

Kelisot says... · Fri May 20, 2022 12:14 pm

I make time go back
Hourglasses flipped back and forth
I make time come back

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Fri May 20, 2022 5:00 pm

alliyah says... · Fri May 20, 2022 5:00 pm

I make time come back
Tracing faces through photos
And remembering

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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Fri May 20, 2022 5:53 pm

Kelisot says... · Fri May 20, 2022 5:53 pm

And remembering
What sins I have committed
Thrust yourself in hell

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NewHope

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Fri May 20, 2022 7:14 pm

NewHope says... · Fri May 20, 2022 7:14 pm

Thrust yourself in Hell
Like fiery flocks of birds
Fluttering aflame

Spoiler

No worries @Starve.

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Kelisot

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Fri May 20, 2022 8:47 pm

Kelisot says... · Fri May 20, 2022 8:47 pm

Fluttering aflame
Just relax and enjoy it
My body still burns

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Liminality

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Sat May 21, 2022 5:44 am

Liminality says... · Sat May 21, 2022 5:44 am

My body still burns
as nighttime makes the air chill,
quietens ashes.

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NewHope

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Sat May 21, 2022 6:56 am

NewHope says... · Sat May 21, 2022 6:56 am

Quietens ashes
As shattered seeds sink softly
Through the endless sea

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Kelisot

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Sat May 21, 2022 2:06 pm

Kelisot says... · Sat May 21, 2022 2:06 pm

Through the endless sea
Of red crystals and echos
Spirits hover us

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Sat May 21, 2022 4:23 pm

deleted48 says... · Sat May 21, 2022 4:23 pm

spirits hover us;
i have learned to live with
these lingering ghosts.

In a shadow there is the blessing of a shadow.
— Kuki Shūzō

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Kelisot

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Sat May 21, 2022 4:39 pm

Kelisot says... · Sat May 21, 2022 4:39 pm

These lingering ghosts
They try to shred me apart
But I must stay strong

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

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NewHope

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Sun May 22, 2022 4:02 am

NewHope says... · Sun May 22, 2022 4:02 am

But I must stay strong
Like a feather pulled apart
Strand by strand by strand

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Kelisot

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Sun May 22, 2022 1:48 pm

Kelisot says... · Sun May 22, 2022 1:48 pm

Strand by strand by strand
The threads of fate start to swirl
Into tapestry

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

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Corvid

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Sun May 22, 2022 2:15 pm

Corvid says... · Sun May 22, 2022 2:15 pm

Into tapestry
a great misfortune. a cup
falls forward and spills

"yeet"
- albert einstein

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