[Roger Slater]

It might be a good idea to move this thread to D&A where it is permissible for people to post their own work.

[John Isbell]

Here’s my favorite haiku, by John Cooper Clarke:

Expressing complex emotions
In seventeen syllables
Is extremely diffic.

Cheers,
John

[Jayne Osborn]

Originally Posted by Roger Slater

It might be a good idea to move this thread to D&A where it is permissible for people to post their own work.

I think this thread is better being only others' work, actually, Bob. We could always have a separate one on D & A, for our own stuff.
(I'll move it if you wish, though, Damian.)

Jayne

[Jayne Osborn]

Originally Posted by John Isbell

Here’s my favorite haiku, by John Cooper Clarke:

Expressing complex emotions
In seventeen syllables
Is extremely diffic.

That's not quite right, John, on account of the 5-7-5 number of syllables. I believe it's:

To convey one's mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic.

Jayne

[Roger Slater]

It's just that many of us have published short poems that may fit this project. I know that lots of us have had poems in Asses of Parnassus, for example, and poems that are in journals but not online (so they are unlikely to be known about or recommended by others).

[Michael Cantor]

I agree with Jayne. I think it would make more sense to open a corresponding thread in D & A.

[John Isbell]

Thank you, Jayne! I believe I’ve never heard the correct version of his haiku, and I appreciate seeing it!

Cheers,
John

[Martin Elster]

Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn

That's not quite right, John, on account of the 5-7-5 number of syllables. I believe it's:

To convey one's mood
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic.

Jayne

Jayne, I was just counting the syllables in John's version, thinking that there's something amiss, and then saw this. Thanks!

John, I like this haiku. Thanks for posting it.

[Shaun J. Russell]

Auden has a lot of "shorts." There are a few in this blog, but he has a great many that are fantastic. One of my personal favorites is:

Private faces in public places
Are wiser and nicer
Than public faces in private places


Another, a clerihew from Academic Graffiti is:

Lord Byron
Once succumbed to a Siren:
His flesh was weak,
Hers Greek

Robert Herrick has a boatload of short poems. Here's one, "Upon Parson Beanes":

Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week,
And on the seventh, he has his notes to seek.
Six days he hollows so much breath away
That on the seventh he can nor preach or pray.

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Another John Cooper Clarke

haku No 6

Smarter men than I
have been total idiots
and I've met them all