Even “not quite haikus” can get quite dark.
46.
Awake again,
It is the first day of
The rest of my life
47.
26,000 gone,
Less than 7,000 left;
Allotted span
48.
One wedding
And six funerals last year,
Life’s winter
49.
Trees also die
Of storms and fire and murder,
But not old age
50.
Orbits and seasons,
But in a cyclical world
A linear life
Winter sunrise 20190114
I have caught the bug and seem to be adding 2 or 3 “not quite haikus” every day.
This set is to round off the present infection.
If I ever get to over 100, I will have to make a little book of Nhaikus.
11.
Before the beginning
And after the end of time
Iswas stasis
12.
TV News
Change the channel
Reality shift
13.
Science describes,
Even explains the how
But never the why
14.
Powerful car, but
The end of the journey
Is where the road ends
15.
Born, lived, died
Then relegated to history
Now forgotten
16.
Born, lived, died
Earned a Wikipedia entry
Immortality
17.
Without any Gods
Invented by others
No atheists
18.
Corks apopping
Another New Year to usher in
Déjà vu
19.
Three score and ten
A never-ending bucket list
Tick tock, tick tock
20.
Beyond infinity
Smaller than the infinitesimal
Unknowable
Previously:
Some more “not quite Haikus” /2
Challenging enough to condense a meaning into 3 phrases in 3 lines and even more so when restricting the syllables and trying to get some measure of juxtaposition.
Some more attempts at “not quite haikus” to follow my earlier attempts.
Surely amateurish but oddly satisfying.
Basho
6.
Sitting in the car
Raindrops merging on the windscreen
Wife shopping
7.
Silence all around
Unheard cacophony in the air
Radio waves
8.
A hole in the thick ice
Groaning and creaking all around
Grilled fish for dinner
9.
Visitor at the door
Rolling to expose his belly
Neighbour’s cat
10.
Low winter sun
Hanging in a crystal blue sky
Brilliantly blinding
I was reading some Japanese Haiku (in translation) and had to have a go.
Not quite haiku which should be 3 lines with 5, 7, 5 syllables (17 total).
1.
Enveloped by a dark
Where your mind cannot tell
If your eyes are open
2.
Hiss and crackle in the glass
Of whiskey pouring on to icy rocks
Anticipating contentment
3.
A library in my hand
But no rustling of turning pages
Oddly disconcerting
4.
Beyond known and unknown
Lie the when and what and where and why
Of the unknowable
5.
Roaring deafening winds
But in the eye of the storm
The silence is music
Apart from in June and July, it would seem that New Year is celebrated somewhere in every month of the year.
A modern politician’s priorities:
Other parties’ voters do not enter the picture.
Many scientists (and all atheists) deny the gods of religions. Many also deny the existence of the unknowable but then illogically also deny that omniscience is unavoidable.
(Of course omniscience is one of the requirements to be a god).
But science does assume gods – in everything but name.
Many, many gods.
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