Moonshine Haiku

[RangerBob]

Remember second grade.
Kennedy got shot?
I wanted to be a big kid like the 6th graders?
Detention, shame

I rode a banana bike to the fairgrounds
Morning after fireworks.
Black jack firecrackers
Short fuses throw fast

Found 35 cents
In the sawdust
Doberman ate horse manure
With a pleased look on its face

BOb

[wolfdogs]

forget to take your meds again?

[Christopherrr]

wow, I haven't read a haiku in forever.

intresting...

i like it Bob.

[RangerBob]

Nah. Ramadan is driving me nuts. No eating, drinking, smoking or even chewing gum during daylight or you are arrested. I am drinking something illegal right now. So I guess I am TAKING my meds. LOL

[wolfdogs]

What is Haiku?

Haiku is one of the most important form of traditional japanese poetry. Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. Since early days, there has been confusion between the three related terms Haiku, Hokku and Haikai. The term hokku literally means "starting verse", and was the first starting link of a much longer chain of verses known as haika. Because the hokku set the tone for the rest of the poetic chain, it enjoyed a privileged position in haikai poetry, and it was not uncommon for a poet to compose a hokku by itself without following up with the rest of the chain.
Largely through the efforts of Masaoka Shiki, this independence was formally established in the 1890s through the creation of the term haiku. This new form of poetry was to be written, read and understood as an independent poem, complete in itself, rather than part of a longer chain.
Strictly speaking, then, the history of haiku begins only in the last years of the 19th century. The famous verses of such Edo-period (1600-1868) masters as Basho, Yosa Buson, and Kobayashi Issa are properly referred to as hokku and must be placed in the perspective of the history of haikai even though they are now generally read as independent haiku. In HAIKU for PEOPLE, both terms will be treated equally! The distinction between hokku and haiku can be handled
by using the terms Classical Haiku and Modern Haiku.

Modern Haiku.
The history of the modern haiku dates from Masaoka Shiki's reform, begun in 1892, which established haiku as a new independent poetic form. Shiki's reform did not change two traditional elements of haiku: the division of 17 syllables into three groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables and the inclusion of a seasonal theme.
Kawahigashi Hekigoto carried Shiki's reform further with two proposals:

1. Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it.
2. The importance of the poet's first impression, just as it was, of subjects taken
from daily life, and of local colour to create freshness.

[RangerBob]

Raindrops kiss
The GTO
Ken cries

[wolfdogs]

Raindrops kiss
The GTO
Ken cries

Ken no
dry eye wonder
see's all

[RangerBob]

Wolf dog he was called
Noble and proud friend of man
Enemy not mine

[Z Ya Later]

GN wakes and roars
Decimates all in her path
Many owners

[wolfdogs]

know what?


you guys rock........

where else could this happen?

LOL

kudos