Dingfelder
Well-known member
Haiku poetry can make for a fun game as well as art. Once in a while they even merge.
Background: Haiku is a Japanese short poetry form. It can get quite technical, but to keep it fun, the basic form has three lines total. The first has five syllables, the second seven, the last five. Often it's pretty evocative stuff, dealing with changes of seasons and of life, but it can also be played for laughs. Short and punchy is fun, yet the wistful part might surprise you too. Strict limits make you work at it. And changing from fun to serious and back again is a challenge worthy of any gamer.
Here's how the game works: You pick up the last line of the previous post's poem as the first line of your own, then let 'er rip with your creativity! Don't hesitate to turn it upside down, either. But it must be 5-7-5 lines/syllables.
I'll start. Continue in a serious vein or make fun as you like. Switch as it suits you, that's part of the fun. Let's just get the ball rolling and see what happens!
Swallows fleck branches
with the song of their whiteness
before winter sings
Goofy-type response:
Before winter sings
I'll meet a few ding-a-lings
They can't all be kings
Less than goofy:
Before winter sings
The cacophony of wood
Mumbled into logs.
Have at it!
Background: Haiku is a Japanese short poetry form. It can get quite technical, but to keep it fun, the basic form has three lines total. The first has five syllables, the second seven, the last five. Often it's pretty evocative stuff, dealing with changes of seasons and of life, but it can also be played for laughs. Short and punchy is fun, yet the wistful part might surprise you too. Strict limits make you work at it. And changing from fun to serious and back again is a challenge worthy of any gamer.
Here's how the game works: You pick up the last line of the previous post's poem as the first line of your own, then let 'er rip with your creativity! Don't hesitate to turn it upside down, either. But it must be 5-7-5 lines/syllables.
I'll start. Continue in a serious vein or make fun as you like. Switch as it suits you, that's part of the fun. Let's just get the ball rolling and see what happens!
Swallows fleck branches
with the song of their whiteness
before winter sings
Goofy-type response:
Before winter sings
I'll meet a few ding-a-lings
They can't all be kings
Less than goofy:
Before winter sings
The cacophony of wood
Mumbled into logs.
Have at it!
