Junior Certificate English for blog readers: Haiku

Right, bit of brain exercise today for you, then (yes, I may have been helping a teeny bit with homework – what of it?).  All comments are to be in the form of Haiku:  a form of Japanese poetry.  The simplest Haiku is in three short lines. The first line containing five syllables, the second line seven, and the third line five.  The lines don’t rhyme but must paint a picture in the reader’s mind.  Here’s mine:

Greyhound sleeps on bed

Feet wave, tongue lolls, breathing soft

Chasing dream rabbits

Something meaningful in seventeen syllables, then.  Off you go.

19 Responses to “Junior Certificate English for blog readers: Haiku”

1. Susan says:

   September 25, 2008 at 10:50 am

   Ok, here’s the one image that stands out in my day yesterday:

   A Garda, hand raised:
   “Your driver’s license, Madam?”
   Shit shit shit shit shit.
2. Thriftcriminal says:

   September 25, 2008 at 11:20 am

   Fog embraces cars
   Get out of my cycle lane!
   Smell Guinness malting
3. Michael Lee says:

   September 25, 2008 at 11:45 am

   (I apologize, I tried for a while to make a haiku, but all my poetry knowledge revolves around an old woman from Nantucket…)
4. Kate says:

   September 25, 2008 at 12:36 pm

   Sitting at my desk
   The rain drizzles down outside
   Good to be at work!!!
5. Jay says:

   September 25, 2008 at 1:16 pm

   PAT dog visits Sense
   Jerky hands touch and stroke fur,
   Woman drools on dog.
6. Lola says:

   September 25, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   Term not started yet
   Unexpected visitors
   I’m still in PJs.
7. English Mum says:

   September 25, 2008 at 2:03 pm

   Comments in keeping
   Cheers my heart to see such work
   Wow you guys are good
8. Susan says:

   September 25, 2008 at 2:06 pm

   English Mum’s Haikus:
   A Comments Anthology,
   Call Mercier Press!
9. Tuli says:

   September 25, 2008 at 2:16 pm

   Dew of youth is gone
   Tomorrow is my birthday
   I am getting old!
10. English Mum says:

    September 25, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    Susan: bless you girl
    Getting published unlikely
    Love my commenters!
11. English Mum says:

    September 25, 2008 at 8:14 pm

    Happy birthday for tomorrow, Tuli! (I couldn’t think of a Haiku for that one!) x
12. Mum says:

    September 25, 2008 at 8:22 pm

    Moon and young wife’s dream
    Wedding blessing Saturday
    Hope the sun will shine
13. Susan says:

    September 25, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Another Birthday?
    Tuli is getting better
    Ev’ry single year.

    Oh, that was easy!
    Happy Birthday!
14. English Mum says:

    September 26, 2008 at 8:13 am

    Ma: Ooh very good – it bloody better do, I’ve got strappy heels!!

    Susan: smarty pants x
15. Baino says:

    September 26, 2008 at 11:38 am

    I cannot express . . seriously . .how much I hate Haiku . .poems should rhyme or evoke emotions. Then I cannot tell you how much I also dislike poetry . .

    Haiku drives me crazy babe
    Makes little sense in English right?
    Japs do it better

    (Although ‘Mum’s comment is sweet and I miss Moon’s posts and happy birthday Tulli and Susan and Thrifty are funny and Jay has as serious an addiction to her dog as you and . .OK I’m warming to it!)
16. English Mum says:

    September 27, 2008 at 8:19 am

    Baino: Yeh, I don’t get poetry either, but I loved everyone’s comments – good insight into our gang, wasn’t it?! xx
17. jennynib says:

    September 30, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Broadband not working;
    How hard to type on mobile!
    Eircom, kiss my arse.
18. Emerging Writer says:

    September 30, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    What a wasted day -
    the afternoon spent fixing
    the broken morning.

    (appearing soon in an anthology of writing from South Dublin)
19. English Mum says:

    October 1, 2008 at 10:42 am

    Jen: That made me laugh out loud. A+ for you! xxx

    EW: I like that. I might drop it into conversation sometime to make myself appear witty and well-read x