Blogs, haikus and other stuff

A few of us have restarted doing blogs. I'm doing some of mine as haikus. You can read them here: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/staff/ You can even comment.

And just for you, here's a blog haiku:

Staff blogs have come back

Hear our takes on varied things

Go read them dammit

I do not much like

poetry, even haikus

but I will read blogs

David S. Wallens wrote: Staff blogs have come back Hear our takes on varied things Go read them dammit

Awesome.

Forced Marketing

right there

Just do it

Damnit!

In reply to David S. Wallens:

Blogs full of info

are worth reading all the time

yours better be good

Brett_Murphy wrote: yours better be good

My haikus are fine

But I would not call them great

They do humor me

Hippopotamus

Antihippopotamus

Annihilation

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Someone please explain

The rules to a haiku

I might do it wrong

David S. Wallens

I love reading what he writes

But really? Haikus?

this is where we are?

writing poetry today?

rather than fast cars?

Even in haiku

You know the answer must be

Always Miata.

Type Q wrote: Someone please explain The rules to a haiku I might do it wrong

Heh, heh..IIRC, for "traditional" haiku, it's 5-7-5 for the syllables. I could be wrong. And modern Japanese poets (as artists do.. ) are stretching that tradition a lil' bit.

This is why the Japanese writer has more freedom than us. When they write, they can use probably several different Kanji (depending on it's "on" or "kun" pronunciation), to say the word or they can use a Kana. We who speak Western languages don't have that luxury, and many of us who even speak the same language separate syllables differently. Also (again IIRC), since the Japanese spend so much time covering up their "honne" for the sake of their "tatemae", it seems that they consider the "best" haiku the ones with a lil' twist of "Oh, so that's what he really thinks!" in the last line.

Grassroots Motorsports (that's 5 for my accent)

Now blogging again for us (again, in my accent, that's 7)

Their lives before us. (5)

Go for it, dude! Between the two of us, you seem to be the one who owns a Japanese car at the moment!

pete240z wrote: this is where we are? writing poetry today? rather than fast cars?

I am an old man.

But my cars still breath such fire.

I am satisfied.

Don't forget that a real haiku has to have that little "mystical" twist at the end.

Ah, ignore me. I'm just jealous that I never had a Z.