@brianbilston I honestly think that this is the peak of poetry and nothing finer will ever be crafted:
Shall I compare thee
To a summer’s day? Alright –
Thou art pretty hot.
Still laughing about
Haiku two five eleven
while reading the rest
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one two five Three Sir
can it count if I cannot
why should I bother
This is a haiku.
They do not have to make sense.
Refrigerator.
// No comments for you.
// This was hard to write, so it
// Should be hard to read.
Do you know the poem Japanese Jokes for Anthony Thwaite by Peter Porter?
It's a series of sort of Haiku. I think it was actually written to poke fun at Western poets appropriating the form.
I read it many years ago but found the last verse really resonated with teenage me.
Somewhere at the heart
Of the universe sounds the
True mystic note: Me.
Might even have been the same one. My English teacher let me keep mine as I showed an interest (probably quite rare in my school).
I still have my well thumbed copy.
Yes! Funny and dark.
Waving not drowning also.
That was/is such a great book. As a teenage boy I was of course drawn to the more funny poems, and the ones with swears obviously (looking at you Larkin), but it led me Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney too.
Eventually it led me to your work Brian, which I love. Thank you 🙏.
Thank you Brian. Have a wonderful weekend.
I once tried to write
a haiku, but enjambment,
ruined it right through.
So a limerick was
written, that it would all fit'n, one
poem then became two!
I have no idea
What any of this means
Oops, that was only six
@brianbilston One I did for a six-word-story contest
A six word haiku?
Unrealistically
polysyllabic.
love the how-to one
it might be the last and sixth
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