BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku

Subject: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 12:37 AM

The globalization of commerce and mass media, some say, is putting an end to our local diversity and the art forms of our many subcultures. Here is proof that this is not necessarily so:

BEAUTY
Naked in repose
Silvery silhouette girls
Adorn my mudflaps

REMORSE
A painful sadness
Can't fit big screen TV through
Double-wide's front door

OPTIONS
Unemployment's out.
Hey, maybe I can get on
Disability

BLAZE
Distant siren screams
Dumb-ass Verne's been playing with
Gasoline again

A NEW MOON
Flashlights pierce darkness
No nightcrawlers to be found
Guess we'll gig some frogs

EXUBERANCE
Joyous, playful, bright
Trailer park girl rolls in puddle
Of old motor oil

ALONE
Seeking solitude
Carl's ex-wife Tammy files for
Restraining order

DESIRE
Damn, in that tube-top
You make me almost forget
That you are my cousin

HATRED
I curse the rainbow
Emblazoned upon his hood
God damn Jeff Gordon

OFFERINGS
Tonight we hunger
Grandma sent grocery money
To Jimmy Swaggert

DRAMA
Set the VCR
Dukes of Hazzard Marathon
At 9 O'Clock

DEPRIVED
In WalMart toy aisle
Wailing boy wants wrestling doll
Mama whups his ass

NO SIGNAL
White noise, buzzing static
Call Earl; satellite dish
needs new descrambler

IMPOUNDED=20
Sixty-five dollars
And cyclone fence keeps me from
My El Camino

GATHERING
In early morning mist
Mama searches Circle K for
Moon Pies and Red Man

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 01:04 AM

GOL!

~Exuberant in PY

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Morticia
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 07:49 AM

These are great,Amos.....I'll have to set mmyself the task of composing some British ones....but I always thought Haiku were 5 lines long?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: LR Mole
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 11:54 AM

Haiku check from lazy English prof: if it fits the first three lines of "Moonlight in Vermont" it works. (Scanning through the 'cat: Vastly more enjoyable Than a paying gig.)

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 01:10 PM

Three lines make Haiku
Five syllables first begin
Now seven, then five.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Micca
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 01:11 PM

17 syllables I think Morty.. if memory serves

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Micca
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 02:44 PM

!!!!Pedant alert!!!!
The dictionary says " a verse form of 3 lines of 5,7,5 syllables"

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: nutty
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 03:33 PM

Is it something like this

NEW LIFE
The roaring white waves
Thunder down on the shoreline And the seal-pup cries

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: nutty
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 03:36 PM

try again - with line breaks

NEW LIFE

The roaring white waves
Thunder down on the shoreline
And the seal-pup cries

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 04:45 PM

DISCONNECTED

The cafe is closed
Folkies and bluesmen despair
Shorty please save us

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 04:55 PM

One thing that characterizes haiku, in addition to syllable count, is that there is supposed to be a "leap" somewhere in the poem, from one thought or level or emotion or realm to another. (Think of the feeling you get when you discover as you go downstairs that what you thought was the floor was actually the last step.) That "leap" is really the essence of the poem. Or so says my Jewish/Buddhist writer/teacher/friend, Natalie Goldberg. Of course, I suppose in this case we could modify it to a sort of a stagger. Brilliant, Amos, I love 'em!

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Kim C
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 05:14 PM

Did you write those and/or may I share them? I have several friends who would appreciate!

DESPAIR

I am heartbroken
Now I feel so unfulfilled
My beer is empty

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Snuffy
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 05:56 PM

Someone sent me these last year:

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with their own haiku poetry.

Your file was so big..
It might be very useful..
But now it is gone..
.
The Web site you seek.
Cannot be located, but.
Countless more exist..

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot
. Order shall return.

ABORTED effort:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed.
I am the Blue Screen of Death
. No-one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

First snow, then silence.
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully.

With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
"My Novel" not found.

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao--until
You bring fresh toner.

Stay the patient course.
Of little worth is your ire.
The network is down.

A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.

Three things are certain:
Death, taxes, and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.

You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.

Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.

Having been erased,
The document you're seeking
Must now be retyped.

Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 10:37 PM

No, I am sorry to say I did not write those. They were e-mail humah, and public domain as far as I can tell for all that.

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Feb 01 - 10:42 PM

Amos, I gotta' tell you, this stuff is really touching...........Makes me want to move to a trailer park.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 12:03 AM

Gee, 'Spaw ... can you afford the upgrade?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 12:11 AM

Not really Amos, what with the added expense of indoor plumbing and electricity......well, its not a move I want to make, ya' know? Plus, I only got one car to put on blocks 'cause the other two run. Got anything I could borrow?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 12:46 AM

Well. .. I got some Moon Pies left from Halloween, and some warm Red Man -- and them frogs been in the back of the truck since the night Billy got his nuts shot off by putting a shell in the fuseholder when the headlight went out thet night, and you can have that...

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 12:57 AM

Snuffy sends some notes
Illegal operation
MS cops are here!

Thanks for those, Snuffy! They are really great!

CABIN FEVER

The wind blows and howls
Snow drifts up higher and more
Suffocating slow

SHITKICKER MEN

WyoMen have balls
Same size for sharing of their
Horse trailers' hitches.

RODEO

Belt buckle belly
Bowlegged dare-me riding
Heart broke, pawned, again.

DONE ME WRONG SONG

Wailin' willies gone
Whiskey bottle broken, too
Always, her heart's torn.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST,micca at work
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 06:48 AM

Subtle sensation
Slowly attacks my torpor
Spaw has Farted

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: mkebenn
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 07:32 AM

uh, amos, Red Man is chawin' terbacki, maybe you were thinkin' Red Dog?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: paddymac
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 10:47 AM

TRUE CONFESSION

I confess to no
Knowledge of Spaw's nether breath
Subtle don't compute.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Peter T.
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 02:55 PM

True haiku should also have some hint of the season of the year. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 04:12 PM

Well one of mine did, in an obvious way. The other, Rodeo, in a not so obvious way...one would have to know that it only happens in the summer, here.

Thanks, Peter,

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 04:40 PM

Peter, we didn't know............

Maine after winter.
Spring breeze through the dairy barns.
Big whiff of cowshit.

Like that?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 04:49 PM

Warmer air brings scent
A whiff of blossoms promised
Layered with Spaw Spew!

**BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 Feb 01 - 05:00 PM

Cold Winter Morning
Bacon smells warm. Other scent?
Cat pissed in toaster

I see now how the "season" thing makes all the difference!! Thanks PT!!!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:32 AM

Grace on the threads
Reduced to squalor.
Long, long winter!

Regards,

A

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:43 AM

Moping is Amos
Mucking up effluvia
Fresh air comes right in!

Around the corner
Comes bright green and yellow shoots
Tender life awaits,

But truth to tell, Of
Pissy toasters well I know
Cats' cabin fever.

(just trying to keep the balance going....:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 01:46 AM

Opportunity
Always refreshingly now.
Early spring washout.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Bardford
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 10:25 AM

Window gathers frost
I learn to play the fiddle
The cat will return

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: LR Mole
Date: 16 Feb 01 - 11:34 AM

Rain or sleet or hail
Who will fall first: dog or me?
When do things turn warm?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST, Dropped Cookie
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:23 AM

Bardford, great new approach... The Cat Came Back, Vuja De!!


HAY, JENCOOKIE

Wild horses set free Nipping frozen rain drenched grass
No cookies harnessed

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST, DC
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 12:44 AM

oops!

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST,Bardford
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 05:52 PM

The Bodhranai:

Goat surrenders skin
I sit in on session and
Duck flying bottles

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Morticia
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 08:25 PM

February rains
a season of madness on
this Mudcat of ours

like that you mean?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Homeless
Date: 17 Feb 01 - 08:37 PM

House is now selling.
Moving on in life again.
Cold van awaits me.

I sit at the hearth.
Yipe! Stones are very cold now.
Calendar photo.

Fire, laughing, paw.
I find them here in the mud.
Are there other cats?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 12:28 AM

Cherry blossom petals
Deadened by acid rain;
Amateur haiku!

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 01:09 AM

Homeless, home again?
Lost, but found...at the Mudcat!
Friendship warms the stones.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Lanfranc
Date: 18 Feb 01 - 09:19 PM

Springtime now is sprung
On back lawn grass is growing
Wonder where are birds

On burning deck stands
Boy, alone for all have fled

I write limericks
Usually they are fun
Must try clerihews

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST,Bardford
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 12:09 AM

This winter a guy
Tried to sell me a banjo
But I resisted.


Now the northern wind
Brings tidings from our contact
The gig is not ours.


Frost on the window
Reminds us of the folly
Of our endeavour.

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Kim C
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 04:06 PM

One English major
Sits in wide-eyed wonder
What's a clerihew?

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 08:28 PM

A clerihew is a comic verse form invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), consisting of four lines rhyming AABB, but with no regular metre or line length. Some of Bentley's own include:

George the Third
Ought never to have occurred
One can only wonder
At such a blunder

Sir Christopher Wren
Siad 'I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul's

John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy

The art of Biography
Is different from Geography
Geography is about maps
But Biography is about chaps

This one's not by him:

Of haikus there are many
In this thread they're ten-a-penny
But very few
Attempt to post a clerihew

Wassail! V

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 08:33 PM

Note that it's a clerihew (lower case), even though it's from a proper name. Also, it should use a real person's name, and say something about him (true or untrue, complimentary or insulting).

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Amos
Date: 19 Feb 01 - 08:44 PM

Spaw FortyNine, in his high-tempered spats,
Shows a belfry that's riddled with bats
But though he derides us
Think of the laughs he provides us!

So why do I have this compulsion to add a fifth line -- da Da da da DA da da DA!???

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Jul 09 - 01:49 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 02:01 PM

Visiting Scot sees light
"You've got to quit all that drinking!"
(Cute little lightning bug)

Subject: RE: BS: Delicate Ethereal Georgian Haiku
From: Joe_F
Date: 17 Jul 09 - 06:10 PM

Always some flakes rise,
But it is correct to say
The snow is falling.