~The Dragon Flies Lair II~

bentfeather | poets

[snippy_about_it]

My Dragon Fly and Me

If I could be a Dragon Fly and wing my way through the sky I would never be shy just me and my Dragon Fly!

By moonlight we ride the wind chase the comets tail for fun by day we would hide from the sun our fragile wings would come undone

On darkest nights we would use fireflies as our guides we would dip and we would glide through the heavens open wide and scatter diamonds in the night sky my Dragon Fly and I...

And we would wing past our lovers silent in the night... to kiss their face in our flight much to their surprise and delight my Dragon Fly and me in sight...

Such a view do we share away up here in the air of breezes soft through our hair my Dragon Fly and me a pair...

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[Soaring Feather]

Good morning Dark, Chylde, snippy, flurry, Johnny, everyone!

[SAMWolf]

Good Morning Everybody.

You Know The Drill
Click the Pics

Coffee & Donuts

[SAMWolf]

The First Poem Written for Computers



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For you somewhat cybernetically challenged, it goes something like this (using the proper cyber-names):

Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,
Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,
Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,
Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,
Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH

Author Unknown

[Soaring Feather]

ohhhhhh Sam, you know how much I love Spanish Eyes by Al Martino!

Thanks so much me friend!!

[Soaring Feather]

The First Poem Written for Computers




This has to one of the funniest poems I have seen in a while!!LOL

[Conspiracy Guy]

Good morning.

[Darksheare]

Thanks.
Snowglobe time...

[snippy_about_it]

SAM's haiku to Snippy

Snippy about it
Falls into SAMWolf's Foxhole
A friend and partner

~

Snippy's haiku to SAM

"Fall in" the sign read
My home my passion my love
since I fell for you

[SAMWolf]

You're welcome Feather.

[SAMWolf]

AWWWWWWW. Blush!!!!!

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the music and ode to the computer. LOL.

[snippy_about_it]

;)

[Darkchylde]

"Those are good haiku."

Thanks, I follow snippy's example
& just go by the 5, 7, 5 rule. I
don't know any other rules anyway.

[SAMWolf]

LOL Those are the only rules I know too but I think ther's something to do with what each line is supposed to say.

[snippy_about_it]

I think there's something to do with what each line is supposed to say.

We don't need no stinkin' rules!!!

[snippy_about_it]

right wrong up or down
we don't need no stinkin rules
haiku done our way


Whatever, Robert Frost said poetry without rules is like a tennis match without a net - and it is true also for haiku. And Basho had his motto: "Learn the rules; and then forget them." Take your personal pick:

1. Seventeen syllables in one line.

2. Seventeen syllables written in three lines.

3. Seventeen syllables written in three lines divided into 5-7-5.

4. Seventeen syllables written in a vertical (flush left or centered) line.

5. Less than 17 syllables written in three lines as short-long-short.

6. Less than 17 syllables written in three vertical lines as short-long-short. (Ala Barry Semegran)

7. Write what can be said in one breath.

8. Use a season word (kigo) or seasonal reference.

THERE ARE 65 RULES JUST ON THIS ONE PAGE I FOUND, I ONLY LIST EIGHT HERE TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA. One site says there are over 700 rules. HA!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

You're right. We don't need no stinkin rules!!!!!

[Darkchylde]

I didn't know there were that many.
The school book I had for English
class only mentioned the 5, 7, 5 rule.
How can less than 17 syllables make a haiku?
I'm sadly missing how that would work...

[snippy_about_it]

I've seen three five three while reading the rules but I don't plan on even learning, too many rules. I'll stick with 5-7-5 and that's it. Too much like work otherwise, ruins the fun of it!

[Darkchylde]

I just read there's also 2-3-2. I found an
explanation for the differences in length too.
"17 English syllables convey a great deal more
information than 17 Japanese syllables..."
After realizing this, some poets decided write
with 3-5-3 instead. That form is considered
"free-form", while the 5-7-5 structure is
considered traditional english haiku.