Ok mental challenge time for the mentally challenged Saloon inhabitants..........

Surfing the internerd during a relaxing time and I thought of Haiku.

Sir George Sansom called haiku "little drops of poetic essence."

A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

That go something like this.............

five syllables here
and now you have seven more
and now five, happy?

They can be traditional such as;

Will we meet again?
Here at your flowering grave:
two white butterflies
― MatsuoBasho, loose translation by Michael R. Burch

or silly...............

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense...
Refrigerator



So have at it: Here's mine

Honda1000F
Remove the exhaust pipes and......
It makes me quite deaf

Ride, ride till the morn
Darkness makes way for the dawn
The mind wakes anew



Cheers, SB

PS: It was this or Limerick's and I thought I'd have to ban the lot of us if we started down THAT track

 

This is far too hard
I asked my daughter for help
But she was useless.

 

Hurricane haikus?
Honestly Seb, won't happen
Play with bugs instead.

 

Oh yes!!! Does this forum have talent or what??

Well done Demon I like it.

Cheers, SB

 

^
Demon is spot on.
Motorcycle men don't care,
prefer wind in hair.

 

Winding roads ahead
climb mountains into the sky
to rest at the peaks.

A downward twisty ride,
ending in straight flatland roads.
My day is complete.

 

A hand in the air
Tells of a mutual interest
Love the brotherhood

A majestic beast
No fear for kilometers
Friend you can count on

Endless desire
Hear the horizon calling
To nowhere and back

One more kid cartoon
And my brain starts to ferment
I need to go ride

 

As the great robin williams once said: if uncertain, enter a dick joke

For once in my life
Something big between my legs
Love my motorbike

 

Ah, you guys crack me up.

Fantastic efforts all of you, thanks guys.........

We welcome any more inputs, give it a go!

Cheers, SB

 

For someone that speaks English as a second language, Matti seems to have a quite surprising command of traditional Japanese poetry techniques.

Well done mate.