On 5/23/2017 at 1:48 AM, Ishi Tonu said:

On 5/23/2017 at 1:41 AM, rsdockery said:

Don't you mean "An easy honor / competition is a test / of haiku writing"?

Nicely done by you

Now face me young word warrior

Hashtag haiku fight

lol

Do not start a fight
unless you think you can win.
Haiku gauntlet, thrown.

Some haiku fall short

Of the obligatory

Nature reference.

1 minute ago, Ide Yoshiya said:

Some haiku fall short
Of the obligatory
Nature reference.

Sadly true, my friend.
One more thing we white folk stole,
subsequently broke.

I am no Yasuki Tono or Kakita Burei.

Violets of ice
Do they melt and become lies
Was there honest

You remember that

Pretty girl draped in scarlet
Fever, lying dead?

Red fallen soldier

Honors the same battlefield

As empty white page

Spring beauty flickers
With pink rose and mochi sweets
You change and I starve

single budding rose
spark of red among the green
begging to be picked

The Azalea
Grows better when pruned early
gentle gardener

3 minutes ago, twinstarbmc said:

single budding rose
spark of red among the green
begging to be picked

The yellow buds pine away

Strangling the Pink ones

I cannot pass up
Such an opportunity
To link this great scene:

A seasonal series I wrote during my senior seminar.

'neath the sakura
soft petals tickle my cheeks
Momentary bliss

Moon's serenity
offers light where darkness dwells
stillness reigns this night

in the wan Sun's glow
shining river laughs ahead
to tomorrow's frost

my breath, now so hoarse
white blankets offer no warmth
will spring never come?

death is fleeting pain
new buds bloom, ignorant of
winter's final gasp

5 minutes ago, rmunn said:

I cannot pass up
Such an opportunity
To link this great scene:

Obligatory
relevant link acknowledged,
appreciated.

Oh Winding Water

The Poetic Endurance

Of Winter's Cruel heart

When Nu5R hits

Butt-hurt fanboys will complain

Old game was better

Flowers do inspire
Seasons outlast their lifespans
Flowers always die

7 minutes ago, Suzume Urusai said:

Flowers do inspire
Seasons outlast their lifespans
Flowers always die

What death has reclaimed

New birth can never replace

Yet life marches on

Farmers and Spiders
Struggling in the harsh winter
Strength dies virtue lives

1 hour ago, twinstarbmc said:

Do not start a fight
unless you think you can win.
Haiku gauntlet, thrown.

So eager to lose

Finish your gempukku first

Then come find me, boy

Also

Many thanks to you

For starting this haiku thread

Now look what you did

Lol

12 minutes ago, Ishi Tonu said:

So eager to lose
Finish your gempukku first
Then come find me, boy

Also

Many thanks to you
For starting this haiku thread
Now look what you did

Lol

One thing you don't know:
I'm a motherf---ing pro.
Bring it on, b*tches.

Flowers embrace me
futile to try and escape
Konohama’s grasp

Stormcrow in the sky

Not a care for what's below

This grey morning weeps

In winter language
Jasmine is not it's true scent
Which one should we seek

2 hours ago, twinstarbmc said:

One thing you don't know:
I'm a motherf---ing pro.
Bring it on, b*tches.

A pro you may be
But arrogance will undo
Come the season end

the battle maidens
thund'ring hooves their sole herald
they are fine poets

I once ran this card
the deck was pretty awful
but so flavorful

For Autumn's Freedom
I Will Endure Winter's Stay
Despite Spring's Distance

Memories of Your Image
Deep White and Brighter Than Snow

Maiden of Paintings

Of Delicate porcelain

Lost to the darkness

A careless silent pilgrim

Could not hold on to the path