Chiang Mai Rainy Season Haiku contest

[orang37]

Now that most of us (or, the few of us who have not departed Amazing T. for greener atmospherics) are discharged from the pulmonary ICU wards ... let the games begin:

 

(since every entry will be judged in its own unique category, every entrant is automatically a winner !)

 

~

 

rain; the green riot
climbs walls to get at the light:
tookay calls echo

 

~

 

~o:37;

[connda]

No rain no rain drought.  
Rice planted in a downpour,
Drowned seedlings float.

[amexpat]

Watched the morning clouds

Decided to take the chance

Laundry dry today! 

[Happy Grumpy]

Umbrella, I wish

Songteow, one thousand Thai baht

Wet socks and sore feet 

Edited August 25, 2019 by Happy Grumpy

[orang37]

`

~

 

we're not belongings,
no matter how long we long:
we're just lost baggage

 

~

 

o:37;

 

[orang37]

~

 

there is enough rain,
enough lightning, and thunder:
where is the haiku ?

 

~

 

~o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

ants in sugar house,

unaware it's paradise:

how sweet it isn't

 

~

 

`o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

full moon, half-moon, rains:

why does my face stay the same

while i forget you ?

 

~

 

~o:37;

[emptypockets]

I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about.....somebody educate me...please. 

What on earth is haiku?

Honestly I have never heard of the term.

Verbal origami?

Sudoku for poets?

Limericks for the verbally challenged?

What??

Edited August 30, 2019 by emptypockets

[amexpat]

1 hour ago, emptypockets said:

I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about.....somebody educate me...please. 

What on earth is haiku?

Honestly I have never heard of the term.

Verbal origami?

Sudoku for poets?

Limericks for the verbally challenged?

What??

Haiku is subtle

It's a linguistic challenge

Google is your friend

[orang37]

3 hours ago, emptypockets said:

I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about ...

 

There is no better vantage point than that !

 

~

 

about emptied mind,

sparkling unexpectedly,

when rain loves you back

 

~

 

~o:37;

Edited August 30, 2019 by orang37
memory recovered after alien abduction

[CALSinCM]

12 hours ago, amexpat said:

Haiku is subtle

It's a linguistic challenge

Google is your friend

????????????????????????????

[orang37]

~

 

old Chiang Mai is gone;

i can't remember the ghosts:

why am i still here ?

 

~

 

~o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

in expatria,

in a state within no state:

at home, or, homeless ?

 

~

 

~o:37;

[rumak]

waiting for rain

waiting for this thread to end

opinions are like raindrops

[orang37]

10 hours ago, rumak said:

waiting for rain

waiting for this thread to end

opinions are like raindrops

I really like this !  

 

may I suggest making the last line 5 syllables:

 

opinions: raindrops

 

cheers, ~o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

there i'm common man;
here, as expat, i'm special:
it goes to my head

 

~

 

~o:37;

[orang37]

in appreciative response to Rumak's haiku:

 

~

 

raining, or,  flooding:

wait for Yi Peng's magic to

float your little boat

 

~

 

Yi Peng, or Loy Krathong: the annual autumnal full moon festival of the Lanna calendar's twelfth month; this year: ~November 13th.

 

~o:37;

[amexpat]

4 hours ago, orang37 said:

I really like this !  

 

may I suggest making the last line 5 syllables:

 

opinions: raindrops

 

cheers, ~o:37;

And the first line:

 

waiting for the rain

[orang37]

~

 

which makes me more Thai:
absence of a frowning face,
or, a smile's presence ?

 

~

 

~o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

here i am, laughing:

Thai smile's an acid;

takes the scowl right off my face

 

~

 

o:37;

[orang37]

~

 

the expat's life, now,
between divorce and visa:
a dark corridor

 

~

 

... not autobiographical ... but, seen all too frequently

 

~o:37;

[hmficc]

There was a young lass from Madras

who had a most magnificent ass

not rounded and pink as you may think

but was grey had long ears and eat grass.

[orang37]

11 hours ago, hmficc said:

There was a young lass from Madras

who had a most magnificent ass

not rounded and pink as you may think

but was grey had long ears and eat grass.

 

perhaps a limerick contest is in order ? :)

 

~o:37;

[sunnyboy2018]

On 8/30/2019 at 2:57 PM, emptypockets said:

I have absolutely no idea what this thread is about.....somebody educate me...please. 

What on earth is haiku?

Honestly I have never heard of the term.

Verbal origami?

Sudoku for poets?

Limericks for the verbally challenged?

What??

Its a form.of japanese poetry.

[hmficc]

Raindrops keep fall on head

like man feet

too big for bed

 

[amexpat]

3 hours ago, hmficc said:

Raindrops keep fall on head

like man feet

too big for bed

 

This thread is actually for haiku. (Maybe look up haiku?) 

 

What do you call your new form, pidgin poetry, perhaps? 

[orang37]

~

 

'birds of a feather

flock together,' so they say:

do expats crash land ?

 

~

 

o:37;

[connda]

On 9/6/2019 at 8:56 AM, hmficc said:

There was a young lass from Madras

who had a most magnificent ass

not rounded and pink as you may think

but was grey had long ears and eat grass.

Irish haiku. 

[amexpat]

19 minutes ago, connda said:

Irish haiku. 

Characteristically verbose. ????