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  • 2 weeks later...

Haiku, what else?

 

Thank you all - nice to know I'm not the only haikuke. Or whatever one calls a composer of haiku.

 

Bazza - I think I tried it a few times in high school and college, but I really took off with it last year in a thread in the Fantasy Hero section.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary ate my haiku!

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Beltane I have not been writing much haiku lately I guess. I was celebrating Beltane in the woods of south central Indiana with most of my own Circle and a few closely affiliated Circles. We were assembled around the fire and Dagonet, called Clan Chief because he is the closest thing this group has to an authority figure, was relating that at this time of year - the reflection in Spring of what Samhain is in the Autumn - those who go alone into the woods are said to risk a confrontation with Cernunos, perhaps becoming quarry in the Wild Hunt. "If He catches you, it was because of something you did, good or bad; and if you come back from that, you will be either crazy, or a poet - if there is any difference." At which point, strangely inspired, I said

 

Worse than that my friend

Cernunos gets done with you

You might speak haiku.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

There are some places

The palindromedary

Cannot go with me.

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Responses in Haiku

 

All hail Beowulf!

I imitate to flatter

He scores a high coup

 

 

Micheal Nonenon

Gone? Alas! We disagreed

Often, yet I grieve.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

So whaddaya expect from a palindromedary, haiku?

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Another High Coup Hero

 

Originally posted by PhilFleischmann

I wrote this one

 

Only seventeen

Syllables are not enough

To express what I

 

I had to laugh. Although it's not a haiku, I also had to share this.

 

On a certain BBS where each member has a one line description associated with their name, that they can change at will, my most recent description reads -

 

These descriptions are too sho

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Only seventeen

Syllables are very hard

To fit a palin

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