A haiku does not mean
Seventeen syllables
No other constraints
I just always check
If it scans to the tune of
Moonlight in Vermont.
Polycarp:
It does in English.
The rules are much more complex
For Japanese lit.
From my reading about Basho, a haiku is meant to be about an environment, isn’t it?
The old pond
A frog leaps
Plop.
Not as far as I’ve know. It’s meant to be focused on a particular emotion. Just to prove how different and rebellious I am, I will not include a haiku in this post.
Here we go - from Wiki-P
I would agree with
Dr. Drake. Polycarp thinks
S/He’s smarter than “us”.
[QUOTE=Dr. Drake]
Polycarp:
It does in English.
The rules are much more complex
For Japanese lit.
[/QUOTE]
I shall not argue further.
Drake’s descriptivism wins out.
Sad-eyed, I slink away.
Fight poetic battles
With Eddy Teddy Freddy.
I shall not disturb you.
There once was a carper named Poly,
who wrote haikus on a trolley
<*** Error: Syllable Limit Exceeded ***>
Chubby Hubby, Bo-
vinity Divinity,
and Chunky Monkey
But anyone could
just bang out a bunch of words
and put them in lines.
There’s a vile old man
Of Japan, who roars at whores
“Where’s your bloody fan?”
To fully comform,
A seasonal reference:
Fuck you, wintertime!
I wrote a haiku
That controverts the O.P.
But I eated it. 
First five syllables,
Then seven, then five again.
Blah blah fucking blah.
[QUOTE=Borborygmi]
I wrote a haiku
That controverts the O.P.
But I eated it. 
[/QUOTE]
You eated Haiku?
Winter kitten looks skywards
With huge sad blue eyes.
ha ha
HAIKU!!
pardon me,
I have a cold
[QUOTE=jjimm]
You eated Haiku?
Winter kitten looks skywards
With huge sad blue eyes.
[/QUOTE]
Teh eated haiku
Makes wind in teh froze flat place
I can has summer?
[QUOTE=Ludovic]
Teh eated haiku
Makes wind in teh froze flat place
I can has summer?
[/QUOTE]
Can not has summer.
Maybe can has cheezeburger?
This too is denied.
My dearest Summer,
please slip on some winter ice
and have a nice fall.