Sidney Beck Poet Haiku

Haiku - Shmaiku

HAIKU   -  SHMAIKU


Seventeen moras
And kigo and kireji :
Who can  figure it?

Never could get it -
Slap down unrelated words :
Meaningless meaning.

Call it poetry -
OK, maybe in Japan
But no way for me.

Keats would be rolling
In his grave if he saw me
Writing  a haiku.

God forbid I should
Ever twist my English so,
So,  I never would.

12 June  2011

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Poet Destroyer A June 14, 2011 at 10:11 AM a good one Sydney, enjoyed your series of haiku's,..p.d.

Dr.Ram Mehta June 12, 2011 at 8:05 PM Very perfect and meaningful and great images, Sydney

Leo Larry Amadore June 12, 2011 at 9:43 AM An amusing series of five haiku, putting down the haiku...well done!