take heart: it's the choking season haiku contest ... everyone (cough) is a winner !

[orang37]

Important  caution: you can only lose if you do not play.

 

Each  haiku*  submitted  is a homeopathic inoculation against that most deadly side-effect of the toxic air we breathe, loss of  sense of  humor. Scientific studies  have shown the  powerful  correlation  of loss of sense of  humor and a wide variety of psychosomatic phenomena including compulsive  complaining,  in-grown smile,  fantasies of necrophilia and cannibalism, glossolalia while sleep-walking leading to attacks  by soi-dogs, etc.

Here's your first  jab:

i am all choked up,
not because you're leaving me:
it's Chiang Mai spring air

*  by haiku we  mean some  kind of three line anything where one line has seven syllables, and, the other  two have five syllables

 

[canthai55]

Endless Endless Posting

Meaningless numbers Ad Infinitum

Arise Dead Horse Arise

[orang37]

Congratulations to  canthai55 and Sticky Rice Balls  ...  our first two winners  !

 

You may wonder if the suggested syllable lengths for the three line entries are "rules:"  we can only reply that in the face of such artistic charisma  our "rules" are  as flexible,  as frequently changing, as ... immigration law, and the weekly/daily "get the touri$t$  back here" initiatives of Expatria's officialdom.

 

Special awards for canthhai55 for the  darkly existential climax of  "Arise Dead Horse Arise," and to  Sticky Rice Balls for his nuanced  use of metric structure and rhyme suggestive of the venerable Limerick school of poetry !

[canthai55]

Obsessed with Numbers, Worry

Free the Mind, Heart Follows

Banish Darkness

[orang37]

 

i'm the fool breathing

air i know is bad for me:

why am i still here ?

[canthai55]

If you Sick - Flee

Enuf BullSheet

And Desist the Endless Moan

[Dante99]

10 hours ago, orang37 said:

 

i'm the fool breathing

air i know is bad for me:

why am i still here ?

so much you want here

moving appears too complex

hypocracy rules

 

[Solinvictus]

Summer rain delight

Enjoyable weather day

Same every time

[amexpat]

five syllables first

seven on the second line 

five more wraps it up 

 

is that so damn hard

the message is just as clear

when you follow rules

 

[canthai55]

Rules are Made to Break

American Eh -Explains

Try to Rule the World

[orang37]

silly fool i am

to start a haiku contest,

and keep writing them !

[amexpat]

1 hour ago, canthai55 said:

Rules are Made to Break

American Eh -Explains

Try to Rule the World

 

I understand. People like you and Donald Trump judge people by where they were born. 

[canthai55]

2 hours ago, amexpat said:

I understand. People like you and Donald Trump judge people by where they were born. 

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, ...

[orang37]

4 hours ago, canthai55 said:

Rules are Made to Break

American Eh -Explains

Try to Rule the World

 

if you write haiku,

you're a brother, or, sister,

from my own heart-land

 

[amexpat]

1 hour ago, canthai55 said:

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, ...

do you mean to say 

you really are the orange clown

using nom de plume

[amexpat]

Chiang Mai residents

we are the huddled masses

yearning to breathe free

[donnacha]

Even composing

About foul Chiang Mai air

Virtue signal Trump?

[orang37]

 

        if someone tells you

        Chiang Mai air is clean, today,

        ask what they're smoking  !

 

[orang37]

 

        

 

            the sky is falling,

            the princess is comatose:

            chiang mai fairy tales ?

            ~

            poisonous pieces

            of toxic air are falling:

            throw a songkran party ?

[canthai55]

Poison Air - Ban This Topic

Been Done to Death Mak Mak

Fix It or Desist

[canthai55]

AQI High - So ?

Barking Dog  Crowing Rooster

Thus It Is Forever

[Trujillo]

Isn't Haiku 5-7-5? 

 

Seems like any old three phrase whatever is allowed here, right? 

[amexpat]

There has been some discussion.  Read previous posts, please.

 

[canthai55]

Rules are made to Break

Why go with the flow My Son ?

Set your Soul Free Too

[amexpat]

Rules have a purpose 

if they don't apply to you

tell it to a judge

 

[orang37]

2 hours ago, Trujillo said:

Isn't Haiku 5-7-5? 

 

Seems like any old three phrase whatever is allowed here, right? 

 

                      five-seven-five is

                      just a movable goalpost:

                      the game is beyond rules !

 

 

 

 

[canthai55]

I tell my lawyer - finished

Judge never see my A--

U can Baa or Howl

[amexpat]

such a rugged guy

no doubt former S A S

now barstool hero 

[canthai55]

Insult - always the last stand

Mind find nothing to say

Lower 48 Syndrome

[grin]

Should we say hi Coo

Or should it be bye bye Coo

Sing Coo Coo Ca Choo