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Dark Haiku

Posted: 30th August 2014 6:31pm
oldgregg19
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Poetry Contest

Write a depressive haiku
Example:

I look out on the world,
All I see is sorrowful pain,
And I feel it all,

Posted: 31st August 2014 8:54am
Edited: 31st August 2014 8:59am
malin69
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How many entry allowed by author? Old haiku allowed or only new?
Just a comment about the text you give as example : it is not an haiku, because not respecting the sequence 5-7-5. Your example had a sequence of 6-8-5!!!!!

Posted: 31st August 2014 9:31am
Edited: 1st September 2014 4:15am
LobodeSanPedro
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Swallowed just enough
Capsulized gallows beckon
Wash it down with Jack's

Posted: 31st August 2014 12:46pm
seekingkate
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Black thoughts clouding in
Looking at my patchwork wrists
Which cut will succeed?

Posted: 31st August 2014 2:13pm
Chiyo
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Would have liked to participate but I'm a little confused by the not haiku-like form of your example on which Malin already commented.

Posted: 31st August 2014 2:20pm
Edited: 31st August 2014 6:20pm
LobodeSanPedro
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Posted: 31st August 2014 2:52pm
sodium589
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Watching TV news
facing ubiquitous death -
proud to be human

Posted: 31st August 2014 3:11pm
EngrVV
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Chiyo said:Would have liked to participate but I'm a little confused by the not haiku-like form of your example on which Malin already commented.

I agree with Malin and Miss Chiyo...let's honor the tradition of the original Japanese haiku in its 5/7/5 syllable format for a total of 17 syllables. The haikus that we are reading today are English translations of the original Japanese haikus in which the syllables are either lost or added.

If not in 5/7/5 syllable format, then it's just a trestet. Just my 2 cents...

Posted: 31st August 2014 5:41pm
poet Anonymous
^ Since when did Manny Pacquiao write poetry and play the guitar? Lol

Posted: 31st August 2014 5:59pm
oldgregg19
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i stuck the lines in a syllable counter, must have messed up. everything else doesn't matter one entry per person

Posted: 31st August 2014 6:18pm
EngrVV
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SugarSkull said:^ Since when did Manny Pacquiao write poetry and play the guitar? Lol

Watch out who you're messing with SS...a left uppercut of Manny would make you cry out loud for SOS! For your info, Congressman Manny Pacquiao has his own band and he sings and plays the guitar. Fucking moron!

Posted: 31st August 2014 6:53pm
poet Anonymous
^
Manny Pacquiao
A punch drunk pillow puncher
Feel sorry for him  

Posted: 31st August 2014 8:24pm
Edited: 31st August 2014 9:23pm
malin69
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Fucking governments
No care of nature on earth!
Where's our future!

Posted: 31st August 2014 11:01pm
DreamSeed
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You will die someday
Life's entirety is just
Disintegration

Posted: 31st August 2014 11:01pm
Krosgood
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Massochist grinning
Suicide is the gateway
To an endless pain

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