Skip to main content

Replies sorted oldest to newest

To achieve Haiku,

Connect line one to line three,

Using just line two.

 

Five beats on line one,

Line-two-beats, must be seven,

Line three, five more beats.

 

The Midweek Haiku,

Subject matter is the test,

It remains my quest.

 

I’m a non-smoker,

Smoking odors will not do,

Trains not included.

 

All the wheels are round,

Running fast on three rail tracks,

Happy O gauging.

 

The smoke billows forth,

Sounds of bell and whistle too,

Chugs in the steamer.

 

When smoke is too much,

And all the trains disappear,

Time, the air to clear.

 

Scale wheels, high rail too,

P S One or P S Two,

Just what should I do?

 

Controversy here,

Just real trains or fantasy,

Why does it exist?

 

We harp and complain,

About some thing that’s inane.

Just go run a train.

 

To tinplate or not?

Standard gauge, or just O gauge?

It’s all pretty sharp.

 

 

Originally Posted by Spence:

I enjoy this post every week but I don't understand what an actual Haiku is.

A Haiku in English is a short poem which uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.[1] It is a development of the Japanese haiku poetic form in the English language.

Some of the more common practices in English include:

  • use of three lines of up to 17 syllables,[1] traditionally in "5–7–5" form.[a][2][3]
  • allusion to nature or the seasons.[4]
  • use of a caesura or kire represented by punctuation, space, a line-break, or a grammatical break[1] to compare two images implicitly

There are breaks from this format on this Forum, but the 5-7-5 rule is typically followed very closely.

 

Gilly

Add Reply

Post

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Ste 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×