17 Syllables of Suck
Kevin linked to a really fascinating look at Haiku. Kevin doesn’t realize there is no such thing. I’m not a real artsy sort of guy but most poetry in general sucks. I wrote my own Haiku on the fact Haiku sucks:
Why do people care
Haikus are really stupid
And easy to write
I was not alone, Tom wrote:
I must say I’m shocked
Here I agree with Uncle
Haiku is stupid
So, write your own Haiku sucks Haiku.
June 1st, 2004 at 1:45 pm
Call me old-fashioned (or new-fangled?), but it has to at least rhyme or have a repeating structure (preferably both) before I’m willing to call it “a poem” at all. Free verse of any kind sucks. Curse you, Walt Whitman!
June 1st, 2004 at 2:00 pm
SU
I once wrote a post called “Poetry Sucks.” 🙂 I jus thought the development of an “American” haiku form was interesting.
June 1st, 2004 at 3:32 pm
Haiku haiku bo
Baiku banana fana
Fo faiku, haiku
June 1st, 2004 at 7:09 pm
Haiku sucks _in English_. The Japanese language tends, on average, to take fewer syllables to express a particular concept than the English language. As a result, it’s easier to say something meaningful in 17 syllables of Japanese than in 17 syllables of English.
Favorite parody Haiku (via _The Kids in the Hall):
Ninety-nine bottles
Of beer on the wall. Ninety-
Nine bottle of beer.