Augustus

Haiku Attempts

Age old china ball tree (Age old=cliché)
Adolescent angry men (no tranquility)
One hundred year war (Shocking)
(Ideas over imagery)

Ageless China ball tree (Oops! 6 syllables)
Hungry adolescent men (better)
One hundred year war (War monger)

Aged China ball tree
Wheat, soy, rice abundant fields
Picnics in the shade

Yellow China ball
Giant turtle under your branch
I ride turtle's back


The mighty live oak (Cliche)
Last parking space of summer (be more subtle)
My truck rests in shade

Moss laden live oak
Search heat scorched parking spaces (alliteration)
My truck rests in shade

Moss laden live oak
Heat blistering parking lot (not tranquil)
My truck rests in shade (what's subtle about a truck)

Moss laden live oak
Warm air mirages ahead
Roadside respite shade

 

Fall ripe apple tree (Fall is not subtle, try harvest)
Robin fledglings leave the nest (not easily spoken)
Fat worms run to hide

Harvest ripe fruit tree (fruit tree is overused)
Full fledged Robins leave the nest (alliteration)
Fat worms run to hide

Harvest ripened fruit
Young fledglings learning to fly
Fat worms run to hide


Joy
Deep
Harvest

Augustus / Houston, TX / June 2017

Comments5

  • orchidee

    Good writes A. Sometimes in my hymn-poems an extra syllable can be sneaked in, e.g. heaven can be 'heav-en', or sound like 'heav'n'.
    Or some words may have extra long musical notes to them.
    I'm not a professional at it. Oh, the technicalities! We'll lose sleep over it if it's not exact! lol

    • Augustus

      Thanks for reading and suggestions.

    • swingline

      I like snafu's :
      Mary had a lamb
      The shocked doctor was perturbed
      He ordered roast beef

    • Michael Edwards

      Great fun reading this. To heck with the rules - just stick to the 5-7-5 format - the results are so much more varied and more fun. So there!

      • Augustus

        I am glad you enjoyed. I had so much trepidation posting what was obviously haiku novice work

        • Michael Edwards

          Not novice at all - certainly no more so than mine - I ignore all rules except the overall format - will post some tomorrow if I can find them.

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        • Louis Gibbs

          I admire your courage giving Haiku a shot, Augustus. I wouldn't know a good one if I met it.

          • Augustus

            Ah, a honest man. I having been reading some by accomplished poets that leave me wondering. Thanks for reading and commenting.

          • Goldfinch60

            Haiku can be challenging. As you probably know by now I don't follow the rules of poetry but strangely in haiku and senryu I do. With haiku I always use 5-7-5 and refer to the seasons or nature e.g.

            As Spring nears Summer
            I look out over my world,
            Where deep snow hides spring.

            With senryu it is the same 5-7-5 layout but concerned with sentiment e.g.

            Stones thrown at others
            Are easier to retrieve
            Than the words you throw.

            Good work though.

            • Augustus

              Thanks for the generous comment. My only research prior to writing these was a few google searches. I now have a book I'm reading. The 5 7 5 format really makes you think. I can understand why poets avoid it. I love your 2 Haikus and copied them. You will find this hard to believe but this morning I was fiddling with writing about a stone and if they remained in place there would be peace. This is what I came up with:

              Peace over waters
              Stones gathered at water's edge
              Best remain unmoved

              • Goldfinch60

                That is a good write and could be seen as either a Haiku or Sentry depending on the way one interprets it.

                A friend of mine on another site reckons that she always thought in 5-7-5.

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