Haiku

Caution: risque language included

Haiku:

a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

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A teacher required her young class to write haiku (what is the plural of haiku – is it haiku or haikus?). This was the response of one pupil:

Some more haiku . . .

I see you driving

Round town with the girl I love

And I'm like haiku.

Haikus are easy,

But sometimes they don't make sense

Refrigerator.

Anyone can write

a haiku just stop at the

seventeenth syllab

Not all haiku are

funny, some are quite profound

Like this, for instance . . .

(I wrote that one but none of the others)

Tittering monkey

In spring he climbs treetops

And thinks himself tall

Counting syllables

seventeen is not enough

eighteen would be bet