Bird and Bernie Haiku

[Donkees]

small bird alights on
a future to believe in
lifting hearts higher

[angstlessk]

1. I really don't get haiku...but go for it!

It's like a limerick but kinder

[Donkees]

2. Aesthetic discipline...

The aesthetic and spiritual "discipline" of haiku begins by the poet trying to adhere to its requirements of length, lines, and syllables, as well as to its other poetic conventions of form and content. What a haiku poet has to say about a specific, momentary observed aspect of nature (including human nature), must be condensed, distilled, and disciplined into three lines, each of a prescribed number of syllables, for a total of just 17 syllables. Note Well: Seventeen syllables is the average number of syllables that can be uttered in one breath.

[angstlessk]

5. I call myself the angstless rhymer

I have written tens of just rhyming poems...which no one likes nowadays...which is probably why I did them.

But I do love Haiku, as long as someone else does it!

[mak3cats]

11. I'm a rhymer too...

...it's more difficult, in my opinion. Haven't written much in my older years - maybe I should take it up again. Might be a good stress reliever.

[angstlessk]

12. I remember when I first wanted to do my 'poems' I got headaches

I am afraid I lost control of my rhymes..I would LOVE to 'hear' yours...are you in the poetry forum?

[mak3cats]

14. No, I'm not...

...but I'll check it out. Thank you!

(That's all I'll say here - I don't want to hijack Donkees' thread. I love reciting my old poems, but they're almost embarrassing now. Rather like bubble gum music...)

[angstlessk]

15. Go to the poetry forum...bubblr gum is surely appreciated

[Ino]

16. If it doesn't rhyme, it's prose, IMO!

But I do love haiku, too

[angstlessk]

6. Of course THAT Haiku is the best I have ever read!

[mak3cats]

13. And thank you for the education...

...I did not know about the "one breath" aspect. It makes sense.

[appalachiablue]

3. A Future to Believe In Birdie, I noticed that, how beautiful.

[rhett o rick]

4. Excellent. I dig haiku. nm

[mhatrw]

7. .

there is a future
a little birdie told me
believe in or not

[Donkees]

8. Thank You

[mak3cats]

9. Excellent!...

...I won't attempt to match yours (it should stand alone), but I'll share one of mine that I titled "The Gravity Game"

Gravity is fun!
Oh, you wanted that up here?
Buy another one.

(I have cats. Can you tell?)

[Donkees]

10. Thank You :)