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A Bucolic Fistful of Haiku

Member since 2003 · Posted 22 Sep 2003 · 3 comments

--- A slight departure from all my former Fistfuls. Please, do bear with me. --- I'm losing myself, misplaced in all my lessons rather than Haiku. Wandering the streets, here in the Forset City, I shepherd Haiku. Sing to me, O Muse, Markie, in the far off hills of green Fred'ricton. My words were not winged when I was speaking today, unlike my Haiku. I have just one eye, turning round my slim Haiku, turning to my Muse. I am longing now for a longer look at her, Markie, long distant. Why do Herdsmen seek me to speak things in their turn when I turn hither? Have old Herdsmen sung of things unfitting for me? Why lead herds astray? I am not yet dressed in their heavy goat-skin cloak. Might I want wolf-skin? Shall I be a wolf, hidden amongst the fat flocks feeding my Haiku? ---

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[6] ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 22-Sep-03/3:10 PM Reply
If you collect together 17 haikus, you can make a Haiku Haiku (e.g. see "A Haiku Haiku"). It takes 289 haikus to make a haiku hakiu haiku, but I havn't managed this yet. In theory, it would be possible to construct a haiku haiku haiku haiku, but that would require 4913 haikus, which is more haikus than the human brain can safely process. -6-
[7] horus8 22-Sep-03/3:17 PM Reply
Patty poop a shroom
Where is my manure broom?
Alas, dave ate it
[10] razorgrin 22-Sep-03/5:49 PM Reply
Nice one. Very nice indeed.