A couple days back I took my creative writing class outside to write haiku. The following are mine (the ones I don't hate, anyway). Also, I should mention that I'm a long-time reader of Jack Kerouac, and thus don't believe that the 5-7-5 syllable rule need apply to English haiku. He called them "pops."
It's a banana,
but what
Does it mean?
Interrogating fruit
is a sticky
Business
Sitting near food
makes me
Hungry
Summer in Honolulu
recalls
Winter in Honolulu
Too many poems
walking around
To write them all
"Oriented"
box is
disoriented
Lunch ladies talking
as if they wish
We didn't exist
What's the difference
between
Cook and Cooke?
Pimples abound
on the kid
Wearing socks
"Chicken of the Sea
the best tuna
Just got better!"
(that's an actual slogan, prefaced by "ask any mermaid")
Sometimes it's unwise
to ask a mermaid
About her tuna
A poem is a sale
dolla fitty
A word
The older you get
the harder it is
To be profound
Thursday, June 23, 2011
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