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We are now starting a Haiku contest given the incredible talent here. David

Hodges once explained what a Haiku is and I vaguely remember.

 

For purposes of simplicity we will call a poem having 3 lines a Haiku, (but

to qualify, it has to be very deep or perceived as such).

 

I will start first.

 

If it itches

and your finger reaches

scratch it.

 

Harsha

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Hi Harsha

 

 

the Sage

walking in the winter sun

no shadow

 

-------------

 

 

 

flowers

blossom in satsangh

haiku contest

 

 

james

 

ps (do I get points for sucking up?)

 

 

 

, "Harsha" <harsha-hkl@h...> wrote:

> We are now starting a Haiku contest given the incredible talent

here. David

> Hodges once explained what a Haiku is and I vaguely remember.

>

> For purposes of simplicity we will call a poem having 3 lines a

Haiku, (but

> to qualify, it has to be very deep or perceived as such).

>

> I will start first.

>

> If it itches

> and your finger reaches

> scratch it.

>

> Harsha

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> We are now starting a Haiku contest given the incredible talent

>here. David Hodges once explained what a Haiku is and I vaguely remember.

> For purposes of simplicity we will call a poem having 3 lines a

>Haiku, (but to qualify, it has to be very deep or perceived as such).

>

> I will start first.

>

> If it itches

> and your finger reaches

> scratch it.

>

> Harsha

 

 

If you have scratched where it itches

good for you

now go wash your hands

 

 

While washing my hands

the itch returns

life's a bitch

 

 

Life is difficult

sometimes cold and gloomy

Harsha provides warmth

 

 

 

a nice place to be

probably better than death

 

 

The great mystery of death

no more mysterious than life

oh well, who really cares

 

 

Not caring about life

or even about death

thinking only about the itch

 

(repeat)

 

-Mike

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james traverse [nisarga]

Monday, June 11, 2001 9:26 PM

Re: New Haiku contest

 

 

 

 

Hi Harsha

 

 

the Sage

walking in the winter sun

no shadow

 

-------------

 

 

 

flowers

blossom in satsangh

haiku contest

 

 

james

 

ps (do I get points for sucking up?)

 

You are pretty funny James! :)

 

I love your first one too.

 

the Sage

walking in the winter sun

no shadow

 

I like Alton's also but I don't know if "yuru" is in the dictionary. But it

has a certain poignant mystique to it!

 

Adulate the Guru

No I'm yuru

why cant I just be?

 

Harsha

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Dear Harsha,

 

CW wrote:

> Did you have the though(t) or

> did the thought have you ..?

<snips>

> they are walking around

> with these other people's heads

> under their armpits.

 

You wrote:

> If it itches

> and your finger reaches

> scratch it.

 

I immediately noticed that I wanted to scratch somebody's head...

As I owe the idea for my haiku to you, CW and Tony (of course) and If I

should win Harsha, please share the hairpiece (I take it that is the

price) with them.

Here it is:

 

a question

i'm scratching my head

someone's armpit itches

 

Love, Wim

(Now scratching both my armpits,

Tony says, "Stay out of my hair!"

CW says, "Whose head is it anyways?")

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drip drip drip drip drip

says one tap to another

drip drip drip drip drip

 

talk talk talk talk talk

one human to another

talk talk talk talk talk

 

humans are like taps

dripping what they cannot hold

drip talk drip talk flaps

 

Jan

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If it itches

and your finger reaches

scratch it.

Harsha

If your finger scratches,

and has reached it,

it is an itch.

Dan

Old Zen Saying:

If you have a finger

You will have an itch.

If you don't have a finger,

You are in trouble.

Joyce

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hey can you express

in a five seven fiver

what you want to say?

 

what a charming sight

caught between trees in the night

a furry delight

 

big cat on a tree

Sweet and furry as it looks

this cat is no pet

 

just edible ones

holy cows do not exist

in feline ethics

 

beauty of flower

fragrance of a butterfly

what supreme boredom

 

a flower for man

some food for hungry insects

garbage afterwards

 

flowers dinner time

honey for a butterfly

quality is prime

 

dog is in the house

chases a cat chasing mouse

a doghouseholder

 

on a foggy day

in nature's hazy stillness

what is there to say

 

yum! that is good bread

on this sunny day in May

thank you mister bum!

 

happy swan with mate

a very high divorce rate

that is just man's fate

 

how wet and foggy

rheumatism underway

but for a doggy?

 

now what is it worth

open eyes on planet earth

worst planet for birth

 

genie from the marsh

fulfill the only wish please

give back the UFO

 

prickly as a bee

asking to the sky above

let it rain for me

 

seated on a corpse

enjoying chicken dinner

i must be dreaming

 

flipper the ripper

where are those tasty fishes

i am hungry too

 

chicken flies away

dinner drops dead on the floor

i must be awake

 

when life is all dead

something funny will reveal

death is all dead too

 

where are my glasses!

from this cave i can't see well

dreaming i'm in hell

 

mind - a sound machine

cold as ice and hot as fire

but feeling nothing

 

mountains white skies blue

behind the clouds the sun beams

trees straight to heaven

 

is that the Teide?

with those clouds that is a no

and wrong colors too

 

more wit and more pun

roaring laughter beach and sun

life is having fun

 

the joy of leisure

without pleasure without pain

is a true treasure

 

what naughty server

a service of disservice

has to be unlearned

 

whatever repeats

ultimately becomes bore

that's a chill that heats

 

Jan

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more of more and less

more nondual tinkering

educated guess

 

less of more and more

more nondual deep thought bore

play nondual chess?

 

more of less and more

heck! here comes another shore

isle of verbal less

 

less of more and less

lesson two of how to bore

at a crowded mess

 

more of more and more

dom of bore just goes ashore

to pray and confess

 

less of less and less

where did i hear that before

party at loch Ness

 

there Nessie appears

eats the mores and eats the less

even pays the beers!

 

in the land of Ness

the last shore a boat can reach

there's the greatest beach

 

Jan

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teaching how to teach

without learning how to learn

playing at the beach

 

how skillful one gets

building rafts in the bottles

beachless bottleneck

 

body is a raft

floating in a sea of fate

engine runs too late

 

huh the easy way?

always repair an engine

through the exhaust pipe

 

those nondual birds

preparing verbal salads

rearranging words

 

no word final though

rearranging by itself

Maya steals the show!

 

Jan

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