Laughless Limericks? Hilariuos Haikus?

[Icingsugar]

Ok,I'm just starting this thread, and drifts off to sleep. If it isn't dead some 10 hours from now, I'll see what I'll do with it...

There are those little compact forms of verse and poerty formulas that seems to be destined for certain reactions. Why is it that Limericks are good for a giggle, and other meter and rhyme forms are always so serious in content?

I searched the net for "Funny Haikus" and I found very few that could make me even smile. "Serious Limericks" went just as lousy.

Kennings, Clerihews, Limericks, Haikus (Ok, that's all I can think of right now, please add to the pile.) all have that in common; we expect what we're supposed to find in there, be it witty, or dead serious.

This thread is about trying to turn that around, shake it, and see what falls out.


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Here's a fast, and at lest mildly amusing, haiku.

Wanna buy some grass?
No? Then have this pipe for free.
Shove it up your ass!

 

[perks]

there were several poets at lit
with dick, some pussy and tit
although some write well
for others it's hell
according to this forum's twit

 

[perks]

there were several poets at lit
with dick, some pussy and tit
although some write well
for others it's hell
according to this forum's twit

shit, I suppose I should read before I post...

I'll try again


three person sandwich
and all the meat in the ass
actually not funny



There's a poet at lit called SJ
who believes he has lots to say
and sometimes he's wordy
and in need of a blurty
when his moodiness gets in the way

that last one, might be kinda funny

 

[Icingsugar]

Anda serious limerick. Then it's bedtime for this cake.


With too many bottles I drown
in the smoke of the sun going down
my regular table
as much as I'm able
redemption is lost on this town



good nighters!
/Ice

 

[denis hale]

Perky Limerick

there's this cool poet named Perks
who's been writing some really good works
when she wins the top prize
she'll then realize
that all of her naysayers were jerks!

 

[perks]

Re: Perky Limerick

there's this cool poet named Perks
who's been writing some really good works
when she wins the top prize
she'll then realize
that all of her naysayers were jerks!

you didn't follow the rules either! *spank*

but I doooooo love it, thank you.

 

[Guest]

Haiku

I must be quite mad
in attempting this format
watch me screw it up.

 

[Rybka]

Poetic Humor

Ok,I'm just starting this thread, and drifts off to sleep. If it isn't dead some 10 hours from now, I'll see what I'll do with it...

There are those little compact forms of verse and poerty formulas that seems to be destined for certain reactions. Why is it that Limericks are good for a giggle, and other meter and rhyme forms are always so serious in content?

I searched the net for "Funny Haikus" and I found very few that could make me even smile. "Serious Limericks" went just as lousy.

Kennings, Clerihews, Limericks, Haikus (Ok, that's all I can think of right now, please add to the pile.) all have that in common; we expect what we're supposed to find in there, be it witty, or dead serious.

This thread is about trying to turn that around, shake it, and see what falls out.
...

Might I humbly suggest that you read some of my short verse?


Regards, Rybka

 

[perks]

jingle ball haiku

santa comes tonight
his dick is so hard he can't
get up the chimney

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Re: jingle ball haiku

santa comes tonight
his dick is so hard he can't
get up the chimney

 

[Guest]

Re: jingle ball haiku

santa comes tonight
his dick is so hard he can't
get up the chimney

If he came all he has to do is wait a few........

 

[perks]

Re: Re: jingle ball haiku

so it wasn't funny?

Santa Claus jingles
one red nose lights when he comes
during reindeer games

 

[jthserra]

to add to the confusion...

to be completely honest, all the above examples of silly haiku more closely resemble senryu.

Senryu, like haiku, follows the basic form of 5,7,5 Japanese syllables (called onji). However, while haiku is generally concerned with nature, senryu is about the foibles of human nature, most often the humorous foibles...

I guess that is what makes it hard to find a lot of humorous haiku, a lot of it is actually senryu, though if you read a lot of work by the Japanese masters you will see their subtle humor in a lot of haiku.


jim

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Re: Re: Re: jingle ball haiku

so it wasn't funny?

It was hilarious. I was just feeling sorry for the chimney.

 

[jthserra]

humorous haiku

Looking through my book of haiku by Japanese Women: Far Beyond the Field

the humor is subtle...


the princess pine
clad in thin snow --
you're a light dresser!


ah yes, a real knee slapper by Den Sutejo one of the very few female haiku artists from the time of Basho.

I found a number of other's that were called humorous, but the humor was in the play on Japanese words, which is obviously lost in the translation.

I think the subtle nature of haiku will prevent humorous haiku from being overtly hilarious and the more bawdy examples will most likely be called senryu.


jim

 

[Senna Jawa]

I searched the net for "Funny Haikus" and I found very few that could make me even smile. "Serious Limericks" went just as lousy.

People write 5-7-5 based poems which are not haiku, and they know it, they still like the game. Also such "haiku" were solicited and presented, one per weekly or monthly issue, by an email distribution for consultants and self-employed folks, called guru. Their "haiku" was interesting, it reflected a consultants life and moods well, in great detail, including their relations with clients (hm, after a while it gets a bit predictable hence boring). They've published my piece too, something about "consultant" being a nice word for "unemployed".

Kennings, Clerihews, Limericks, Haikus (Ok, that's all I can think of right now, please add to the pile.) all have that in common; we expect what we're supposed to find in there, be it witty, or dead serious.

You are confused about kenning. Unlike haiku or sonnet, kenning is not any kind of a poem. Kenning is an artistic mean like simile and metaphor. Actually, it is possible to define skaldic kenning as as a metaphor together with its foundation consisting of a simile (analogy) of two possesive relations. Skaldic kennings are confused with metaphors (occasionally with similes) and with the "dead metaphors" or any phrase of the form "X of Y" or "Y's X).

I will be merciful and will leave commenting--praising of course -- on your "haiku" to others.

 

[Icingsugar]

Re: Re: Laughless Limericks? Hilariuos Haikus?

You are confused about kenning.

Actually not. I know my kennings and the old norse practice of kenning weaving, which were long winded poetic presentations, in which trhe core was chains of kennings.

Anyhow, I willingly admit that it was misplaced in this thread, since it's not about defiíning meter and structure.

/Ice - still waititng for more dead serious limericks

 

[jthserra]

found these...

Some time ago there was a set of computer related haiku/senryu floating around, some a bit tough on Microsoft. I did find something along that line in some old, old email. The author's names were not provided:


"Haiku Error Messages"

In Japan, they have replaced the impersonal
and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with
Haiku poetry messages. They're used to
communicate a timeless message, often
achieving a wistful, yearning and powerful
insight through extreme brevity. Here are
16 actual error messages from Japan:

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

Program aborting:
Close all that you have worked on.
You ask far too much.

Windows NT crashed. I am the
Blue Screen of Death.
No one hears your screams.

Yesterday it worked.
Today it is not working.
Windows is like that.

Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.



jim

 

[perks]

There was a girl in NY who did smack,
actually, coke and heroin, not crack,
after knocking door to door
east harlem is where she would score
the problem was getting back

 

[champagne1982]

From the moment of birth we survive,
All life's foibles and hazards that strive,
To put an end to the days,
When our happiness plays,
To ruin hope, which keeps us alive.

 

[Icingsugar]

Sorry, Carrie, but I can't take anything you write seriously with the bloody santa bobbing up and down in your sig.

 

[denis hale]

Sick Limerix

Jaundiced apple core
swimming in the cold coffee
flies find their toilet.

 

[perks]

hale is being gross
i don't know why I'm suprised
because he's a boy








cootie carrier

 

[denis hale]

oh yeah?

Perks is being cross
she knows boys are the best fun
watch her get her one

 

[Lauren Hynde]

*sits and watches*


PS: 'Perks is being cross?'