26 February, 2008

A Haiku Inspired Picture

Filed under: Black and White, Poetry, Things — Camera Dave @ 7:53 pm

My front door

Yes I know it’s just a picture of a front door, but it’s a perfect illustration to go alongside the haiku* I wrote at work today.

banging at the door-
an unexpected guest or
man with joke pehaps

And before you ask, yes I was very bored at work today. Whilst I enjoy writing poems (and for some reason haven’t done so for a while) I wouldn’t usually use knock knock jokes as my inspiration

*And for any purists reading this I know it’s not a haiku and for anyone that didn’t know and is interested it’s a senryu. A haiku is not just any poem of 3 lines in a 5-7-5 syllable pattern, a haiku is defined by it’s subject matter and should concern nature and doesn’t have to be 5-7-5 (at least not in English anyways).  Anything which follows the form, but isn’t about nature is at best a senryu.

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