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Haiku, 1987 style

Here's one which I've previously posted in Words:

Lines

drawn on the mirror,
just waiting for some action,
pure and white like night.
 
^ I might cheat too and post an older one ;)

I <3 haiku!


Exploration of Thoughts

Ever observant
Yet never rocking the boat
Hiding true feelings

Flesh drawn together
Pleasure and pain entangled
Embrace ecstasy

Public smile a facade
Crystalline melancholy
Stains cheeks when alone

Fake euphoria
Inhaled paranoia
Bitter Aftertaste

Indecisiveness
Crazy dreamer lost the way
Complete frustration

Old habits die hard
Writing my only solace
Confide in no-one
 
A few more from me:


White browns black,
eyelids stretch -
caffeine drills me into the world.

* * *

Punt Road
flooding rain
headlights cast comet-tails

* * *

Far water, your voice
is heard beneath the silence,
passing through the rocks.
 
Those seem rather unconventional haikus! I know you have told me that the 5/7/5 thing is not strict. Please elaborate so that I may improve my haiku skills.

I wrote a spam-ku once. Sadly it seems that the Spamku archive has gone offline so it may be lost forever :(

Even more disturbing is that in my efforts to find it, I discovered that the term Spam-ku has been approriated! Once, it referred to haikus about Spam (the pseudo-meat product) however in its new usage, it refers to haikus generated from random lines of the filter-fooling random text in spam emails. I'm so so confused and disillusioned.

how could this happen?
one thing becomes another
words with new meaning
 
The 5/7/5 thing is traditional, but a 'contemporary' haiku doesn't have to follow the syllable count. If you're going to be strictly traditional, then a haiku should take nature as its theme, and should communicate a sensory experience, a moment, an epiphany...

There are really no rules about a 'contemporary' haiku, but they're usually three lines (although I have seen some two-liners), and may stick to traditional haiku themes and aesthetics, although this is often done in an ironic / satirical / unexpected way.
 
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