Haiku poetry game!

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Dingfelder

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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!
 
mumbled into logs
as the ax misses its mark
blue language abounds
 
blue language abounds
as our leaders consider
what falls out of bounds
 
What falls out of bounds
In the middle of the night?
I'm not telling you.

The Dire Wolfess
 
What fell out of bounds
Get thee to a Nunnery
(Nothing) to report
 
Discreetly quiet,
Summer packs up all its things,
even the bird songs.
 
In unearthly light
Dawn clouds gathering favor,
A burst of birdsong!


The Dire Wolfess
 
Sound wave eruption!
Feathered cacophony
In rosy dawn light

The Dire Wolfess
 
Moxadox said:
Sound wave eruption!
Feathered cacophony
In rosy dawn light

The Dire Wolfess

In rosy dawn light
I look to the horizon
But he is not there
 
All right, that was a difficult last line to leave. I'll try to work something up ...

Could even be thought
that crosses my racing mind
once I stop talking.
 
Their scent in the air,
Something to be made aware,
Flowers in her hair.
 
Flowers in her hair
Sparkling dew drops, dipping leaves
Scented breeze skips by
 
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