NOTE: Haiku are a Japanese poetic form consisting of seventeen syllables arranged in lines of 5,7 and 5 syllables. A true haiku conforms to a philosophical definition too, in fact a Japanse - American poet of my acquaintance holds the opinion that haiku can never work properly in English because it is a verbose language where as Japanese is a highly nuanced language with a completely different structure. Undeterred, your resident intrepid adventurers Mike St. Mark and Ian Thorpe plunged into the deep end...
1. Haiku in English
Haiku are fine things
but not always well suited
to the rules of Eng...
2. 'ear 'ear
Do old mens' ears grow?
Or is it their heads that shrink?
Ask them; they won't 'ear.
3. Disconnection
A butterfly flaps
its wings in the rain forest,
that's all, la,la,la
4 To The Poet Laureate - Poetry on Motion
Poet Laureate?
He is not a poet and
he does not know it
5. England
England, my England.
Held up in a gridlock I
miss the soaps again
6. Haiku to Autumn (after Keats)
Season of mists and
mellow fruitfulness. Christmas
in shops already.
justaface
You know what? I had a piercing sense of certitude right now - and if you knew how rare that is for me, and twice now! You'd be amazed - that Basho would love your butterfly la la la. Forget "non-nuanced language" and that shite - your zen arrow has found the philosophical heart of haiku.
Re your comment that you don't know why you bother; I think you do know. You're good at it, and I think you know it. (Maybe you just don't believe it sometimes; which may not be great for you, but it's all the better for the rest of us that you don't, and so won't starting restin' on yer laureates.)