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Here’s to all of you participating in this!
Some of the most famous haiku in all of Japan’s history are attributed to the three great masters. One of them, Matsuo Basho is learned by almost every schoolchild in modern Japan. His “frog haiku” became instantly famous when he composed it in 1686.
Furu ike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
Translated into English as (not 5.7.5, though)
The old pond;
A frog jumps in -
The sound of the water.
or yet another translation (there are hundreds)
Ancient silent pond
Then a frog jumped right in
Watersound: kerplunk
This is the part where I encourage you all to comment below and add your own haiku. Make it about thatwasthen or at least rock and roll music! If you need to, listen to the tunes while you write! Click the player at the top!
~Love, Brenton
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Awesome Brent! I love Haikus!
A mourning dove feeds
In a marijuana bush
And sings a high coo…..
You, Justa Otto
are the true haiku guru
I envy your skills
I’ll try more more haikus later…
<3 brit
I don’t love this one as much as when I first wrote it, though I like the band references blended in with the natural motif
Maybe I’ll write another later
heaving swells of sound
tumble rocks and churn the sand
beating toward the moon
Hahah kate, I’m sure you’re aware of this, but you just referenced three different twt songs in one haiku! So epic. Love ya!
anyway here’s my input:
Sitting in my room,
Writing a post for this site
Meta poetry.
you should shop at ralphs
Amstel only costs Eight dollars
Drink Up Brenton Gulp
only one comment
thatwasthen rocks my socks off
okay, that is all
hahaha nice ones, ryan(n)s!
thatwasthen refs are
deliberately inserted
yes, i am legit
Nick:
you are so meta
you talk like a grad student
here, please grade this test
four strings make the sounds
twenty to two-hundred hertz
makes my bones tingle
sonic disasters;
i repel their existence.
i say anything
Hah i see what that last one was inspired by, brent.
Yup, Charles Bukowski
got it right about women.
I shouldn’t go there.
Oh yeah Nicky! Bukowski for the win! That’s awesome!
yeah….I mean, the guy’s depressing as hell, but when you’re in the right mood, he just rings a little too true.
It is twelve Pee Emm
yet my room is still cold and
Winter is colder
than Fall is, they say.
But why, then, do the leaves die?
Are they heartbroken?
Or do they commit
suicide to get away?
Yikes, this one is dark.
mine is about how we used to hook up our ipods to the speakers at work so we could listen to whatever we wanted.
nate the barista
played thatwasthen at starbucks
begone, freeform jazz
Megan, that was hilarious!
whisky papageorge
jumped out the window oh shit
wait she lived its fine
bitch car cut me off
honk honk honk honk honk honk honk
honk honk honk honk honk
honk honk honk honk honk
mele kalikimaka
to you too fucktards
Wow, Jane!! That was sooo funny.
Here is my Thankgiving haiku
Yes, I’ll have thirds, please.
Help! I am slipping into
Triptophanity.
http://meatsleeps.com baby.
Growing up sucks nuts:
“Pay bills! Comb your hair! Listen!”
You can kill me now.
Dude, you don’t have it.
Rocking an Ed Hardy hat.
What is up with that?
thatwasthenmusic
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I’m writing a horrendous final paper, so of course I have time for haiku:
bipartite structures
no one gives a fuck about
are my life now
___
antidisesta
blishmentarianism
is a real long word
___
heart beat thump, thump thump
thump thump, thump thump, Oh!, thump thump
you made me miss one…
Epic.
Christmas time is here
Not Kwanza, we know it’s fake
and made by a prof.
fast servers will help
bring us to new atmospheres
upon ad-free bliss