Haiku

Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains 5 syllables, the second line 7 syllables, and the third line contains 5 syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must paint a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku- to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in only 17 syllables.

I- Alas it was she

who came to a bitter end

running with scissors

II- Yesterdays clown found

casually smoking still

beneath the rubble

III- Blackened effigy

discarded in wilderness,

wearing my likeness

IV- Multiple pitchers

undoubtedly ensure

merriment ensues

V- “I beg thee requite”

withering words kiss darkness

still unrequited

VI- Listless whisperer

humble reminder for all

words fall forsaken

VII- Here lies friendship quenched

gravely he’d left him for dead

bullet smouldering

VIII- Poured molten metal

down deeply hollowed caverns

cue echoing shrieks

IX- Blazing inferno

how greedy you are indeed

feasting ceaselessly

X- Fluorescent lab lamp

speckled eggshell light splinters

prehistoric life

XI- Yes, enough tears spent

to bittersweetly season
sorrows briny broth

XII- Taste a foreign land

sensing oriental fumes

china in your hand