New Haiku Thread

[Coffee]

Biscuits and gravy
A great combo, there's no doubt
Food for hungry soul.

[Dale]

Biscuits and gravy
A great combo, there's no doubt
Food for hungry soul.

Biscuits and gravy
A breakfast that suffers from
absence of bacon

[Innocent Bystander]

How the food translates!
Gone, as scone, once known as scone*
That takes the biscuit!


*Two different pronunciations of scone, there.
"I asked the maid, in dulcet tone
To fetch for me a buttered scone.
The silly girl has been and gone
And got for me a buttered scone."

[fearfaoin]

Mmmm, biscuits are good
with a drop of molasses
But those poor, poor moles

[FJohnSharp]

Realtor Haiku #1

Plant open house signs.
Rain soaks shirt, hair. Sit soggy
while nobody comes.

[mukade]

An insurance company holds the 'Salaryman Senryu' competition every year in Japan.
Senryu differ from haiku in that they are usually about contemporary themes and do not require a seasonal word.

I translated a couple from the best twenty.

Back then I had dreams
And they said follow your dreams
Is that all they were?

This is why I work
to hear the words 'welcome home'
and to see that smile.

Mukade

[fyffer]

Sleep comes near again
Leftover pizza lingers
Heartburn soon follows

[Coffee]

Biscuits and gravy
A breakfast that suffers from
absence of bacon

(Mine has bacon, since I use bacon drippings as the fat for the roux and then add the crumbled bacon to the gravy. S'good.)

[Sandy McLeod]

Mukade. great contribution. We don't often see senryu and I miss it.

Sandy

[I.D.10-t]

Her beautiful voice
uniquely saying cloudy
Donna brings the rain

Donna is one of the 2 computer generated voices
used since 2002 by the NOAA to replace Paul.
The other Weather Radio automated radio weather
warning system voice is Craig.

[izzarina]

Dale's new avatar
Will give me nightmares no doubt.
Will I sleep again?

[Innocent Bystander]

Elipsis dangles
Tantalisingly out of reach:
Ever-pregnant pause...

[I.D.10-t]

If A equals B
And B minus C is nil,
Then A equals C

Ever wonder what would happen if a Haiku poem had a conversation with a Tanka poem?

Haiku poetry
Makes Tanka antiquated
Go away old man!
(Kids need to learn more patience,
attention spans of a fly.)