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Haiku Train



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Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:14 am
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BarrettBenedict says...



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
"Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. -Robert Anton Wilson
  





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Sun Apr 26, 2009 6:06 pm
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3hundred1 says...



what dogs imagine
fields of steak filled ecstasy
will never happen
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- Oscar Wilde
  





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Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:06 am
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BarrettBenedict says...



Will never happened
upon a lesser carnage
birds eat cats eat men
"Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. -Robert Anton Wilson
  





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Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:50 am
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siobhan says...



birds eat cats eat men
the carnage is cyclical
hunger never ends

Lol, they're all about eating so far, mostly. Nom nom.
  





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Mon Apr 27, 2009 4:21 am
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Helpful McHelpfulpants says...



hunger never ends
in the cold breath of mornings
uncounted, loveless.
Nunc lac est bibendum.
  





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Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:15 am
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BarrettBenedict says...



Helpful McHelpfulpants, I love your name!

uncounted, loveless
"Son cosas de la vida,"
buck up, yellow-gut
"Is", "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. -Robert Anton Wilson
  





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Sat Oct 13, 2018 7:40 pm
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alliyah says...



"Buck up, Yellow-Gut!"
cried the hawk to the gold-finch
"Birds have to eat worms."
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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Sun Oct 14, 2018 7:51 am
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Starve says...



Early birds eat worms,
therefore, Lazy Worm argues --
early worms get ate.
Last edited by Starve on Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:16 am, edited 2 times in total.
  





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Thu Oct 25, 2018 2:17 am
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alliyah says...



early worms risen
out of dirt and side-walk cracks
stretch to find the sun
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 Dec 13, 2018 8:22 pm
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Samhain says...



Stretch to find the sun -
It's okay if you get burned,
Just don't hurt your eyes.
2 Legit, 2 Legit 2 Quit
  





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BooksCatsAndTea says...



Do not hurt your eyes,
Citrus will be your demise,
Ridiculous pain.
  





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Mon Dec 17, 2018 3:24 am
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Samhain says...



Ridiculous pain,
Why does it make me so vain?
Bring me water, please!
2 Legit, 2 Legit 2 Quit
  





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keystrings says...



plead for water now,
from a fresh, far-away spring,
or the kitchen sink.
name: key/string/perks
pronouns: she/her/hers and they/them/theirs


novel: the clocktower (camp nano apr 24)
poetry: the beauty of the untold (napo 2024)
  





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niteowl says...



Or the kitchen sink,
desert dry until you leave,
then it floods your world.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci

<YWS><R1>
  





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Fri Mar 29, 2019 8:01 pm
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Starve says...



then it floods your world,
leaving clean and dry eyes
for the next venture.
  








Have a biscuit, Potter.
— Professor McGonagall