When a haddock is just not enough!
Never mind Haiku
I really want a Haddock
Just the one Haddock.
Not a whole ocean of them
That would be too much fun
No, just an individual
Swimming about
I’d name her Fanny
Without a doubt
But I wouldn’t want her in my kitchen
Or anybody else’s
She should just swim in her seas
Can I have a Haddock
Please?
When a Haiku is just not enough!
Hardly a mouthful,
the Haiku is short and sweet;
leaves you wanting more.
Another Haiku?
Or should you seek something more?
A sonnet maybe?
Even Tankas are lacking
a true poem’s length.
And a couplet is over in a few seconds short
That it’s longevity in brevity is certainly nought.
But if we cobble together a mixture of these,
and add a random poem on a subject like cheese,
it may make the poetry enough
to get you through stuff;
or make the hairs grow on your knees.
Edam is made backwards
in a country called Dutch;
I know that’s not it’s real name,
but I shall put it as such;
and Peter Pan liked his cheese all the same
and made in Nethernetherland,
Or, at least, that is his claim.
A Haiku in Time
One second, the next,
then a third, fourth and fifth one –
the Haiku is writ.
But, you’re not happy?
One Haiku is not enough
So, how about two?
No? You want one more?
I can write you another;
but, I won’t do four.
Saturday Evening Haiku
It is much too soon
For Saturday evening
Haikus, isn’t it?
My Sunday Haiku
just does not have enough space
for all Sunday’s highs.
Even if it were a Tanka
It wouldn’t be long enough;
and, I don’t know if whether
you added on a few more lines
and fibbed with the syllables
you could get away with it.
Don’t you just hate it
when a Haiku
just won’t fit the structure
and has too many syllables
to fit into three lines?
