by frog
Regretfully, I made a quip about global warming haiku on another thread. Frogblog readers have responded with a flourish of creativity. I invite all readers to make a contribution here.
My favourites so far:
# Sapient Says:
The skeptics cry.
Their wealth run dry.
The earth overheated and dead.
They bemoan the inferno,
their ignorance hath fed.
# greenfly Says:
Rodney wants to Hide
his head in the blinding sand
It’s a selfish Act
Lovely stuff! Keep it coming!
Published in Environment & Resource Management | Society & Culture by frog on Tue, May 5th, 2009
Tags: AGW, global warming, haiku
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Repost:
A Dead Moon
The Fragments Glisten in
The Deadly Rays
The skeptics cry.
Their wealth run dry.
The earth overheated and dead.
They bemoan the inferno,
their ignorance hath fed.
Ignorance is bliss.
How blissful Mr Hide, head always
in the dense iron-sand.
A linguist would shrink,
From haiku thus constructed.
Their form; so flawed.
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But if not constrained
what would the mind construct? images
of not hate, but love?
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So fun, these haiku;
best we argue, always, in such a
graceful, easy going, form.
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The warning bell tolls
BluePeter trills his vain cry
Steady as she goes
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Sapient, you are the master!
Have to work now, sadly, but looking foward to reading more this evening!
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The greenfly returns,
the winter; hot, dry, and dull:
damn those skeptic fools.
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oh, its no fun unless its a discussion!
I must stop procrastinating also.
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Could we imbue Act
That medieval party
With green sapience?
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Ocean rises
riding whales
into silence
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From Wikipedia:
Haiku (俳句 ,haikai verse?) Haiku.ogg listen (help·info), plural haiku, is a form of Japanese poetry, consisting of 17 morae (or on), in three metrical phrases of 5, 7 and 5 morae respectively[1]. Haiku typically contain a kigo, or seasonal reference, and a kireji or verbal caesura. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in English usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku[2]. Previously called hokku, haiku was given its current name by the Japanese writer Masaoka Shiki at the end of the 19th century.
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From wikipedia:
Today, haiku are written in many languages, but most poets outside of Japan are concentrated in the English-speaking countries.
It is impossible to single out any current style or format or subject matter as definitive. Some of the more common practices in English are:
* Use of three (or fewer) lines of 17 or fewer syllables;
* Use of a season word (kigo);
* Use of a cut (sometimes indicated by a punctuation mark) paralleling the Japanese use of kireji, to contrast and compare, implicitly, two events, images, or situations.
While traditional Japanese haiku has focused on nature and the place of humans in it, some modern haiku poets, both in Japan and the West, consider a broader range of subject matter suitable, including urban contexts. While pre-modern haiku avoided certain topics such as sex and overt violence, contemporary haiku sometimes deal with such themes.
The loosening of traditional standards has resulted in the term “haiku” being applied to brief English-language poems such as “mathemaku” and other kinds of pseudohaiku. Some sources claim that this is justified by the blurring of definitional boundaries in Japan[
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Global Warming
’12 Winter Solstice
A butterfly flaps
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An ancient pool
The frog speaks
Blog!
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is it winter yet?
i see the sea has risen
my breath does not show
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i am very hot
evaporation is nigh
steaming away now!
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So many haiku
How to choose which is the best
greenfly’s trill on trolls?
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Cool outside
The Bush is gone
A G dubaya elected president.
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summer’s off
northern lights called
sad
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Valis said
“but God is dead”
AGW instead
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Shunda lies by the road side,
starving and still in denial: bang.
I have some bushmeat tonight.
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Greens say “peoples attitudes must shift”
Their AGW message is buried
Under record snow drift
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James wins!
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Bang, searing heat and pain
Lie dying in the snow
last breath “Sapient I told you so”
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And for once Sapient
does respect the sentient, and
lets him die thinking he won.
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Sapient, intelligent
Dark and freaky
Next generation?……. aaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!
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I wouldint so much be worried about the next generation being similar to me, they are too stupid. Id worry more about them being so stupid and sheepish that I may act as a sheppard
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AGW Haiku
Cattle Poo
Autumnal Odours
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Returning at last
Is the village abandoned?
Plaintive cries echo still
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Spring Tide
Palms wash their feet
Children their hands
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“James wins”, Peter crows
Mocking voice falls on deaf ears
Snowfall deflected
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greenfly wins!
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A frog, a small fly
a still chamber of echoes
Green conversation
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I forced my last haiku rushing for a bus. It ripened while I sat on the way home, so I would like to withdraw it and replace it with:
Spring tide
Palms dry their feet:
Pedants wash their hands
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A frog on a bus
Passengers draw up their legs
‘Phibian aboard!
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A frog dreams all day
Of water levels rising
‘Fraid of getting wet?
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Yellow jacket man
swims into a rising tide
Fools bob in his wake
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Greenies whining
Christians fighting
Zealots kill us all
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The sun shines
down on me
I am Green
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Seeking the true path
shunda flies toward the sun
should have voted Green
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Southland’s milk, ‘white-gold’
full-uddered cattle bellow
a river weeps, brown
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Brightly coloured kites
swoop and dive, a fallen string,
Where’s sapient gone?
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You cannot really write a Haiku in Roman script because you do not have the four layers of meaning common to the Chinese and Japanese Characters.
The whole point of the haiku is to use these layers of meaning to convey more than one meaning. For example the radicals that make up the characters in the aphorism “He who hesitates is lost” translate as something like “The hunted deer stood on the edge of the precipice and feared to leap”.
These short poems debase the real meaning of the genuine haiku.
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