the Haiku

Sometimes I ride with Dennis to work, we often do goofy things, say goofy things, are just generally goofy, so it should be no surprise that one day on the drive home (Plover) from Manitowoc we tried to write a Haiku. First, we had to look up the exact rules for a Haiku as we had forgotten.  It took us the whole drive to come up with what we did - I still laugh at it every time I read it.

A haiku is a non-rhymed verse genre. In Japanese, haiku has five syllables/sounds in the first line, seven in the second, and five again in the last line . In Japanese, the word "haiku" means "playful verse." More important than form is that a haiku contain a "kigo" (season word) and employ the equivalent to a "kireji" (cutting word), which means that the poem should present two juxtaposed parts in three lines. In addition, haiku should use objective sensory images, and avoid subjective commentary.

Little fuzzy ducks

Ran over by giant trucks

Duck soup for dinner.