The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku.

by ncsuDuncan , Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 21:28 (4071 days ago) @ ZackDark

Never got haikus
They are indeed too damn odd
I blame Dagoonite

Seriously, though, would some kind soul enlighten me on how haikus (haikii?) work?
Do they have a cadence or melody or something?

Seems like you've already got it figured out. ;)

No specific cadence or melody, just be sure you have the correct number of syllables.

(Personally, my favorite poems to write are limericks. The additional constraints of rhyme and meter make me feel more clever and the form lends itself to a punchline. That's a challenge for another week though...)

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The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ncsuDuncan, 2013-03-13, 20:53
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ZackDark, 2013-03-13, 21:19
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ncsuDuncan, 2013-03-13, 21:28
    - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ZackDark, 2013-03-13, 21:41
      - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - TTL Demag0gue, 2013-03-14, 05:47
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Dagoonite, 2013-03-13, 23:08
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - bluerunner, 2013-03-13, 21:37
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - bluerunner, 2013-03-14, 07:35
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Kermit, 2013-03-14, 07:38
- How does a haiku / oh ncsuDuncan / go with Destiny? - Dean Hofmeyer (unhh), 2013-03-13, 21:46
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-13, 22:09
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-14, 00:29
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-14, 11:40
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-14, 19:50
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-14, 23:56
    - #4 should be our mission statement. - Claude Errera, 2013-03-15, 05:44
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-16, 00:02
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Ragashingo, 2013-03-16, 16:49
- The Guardians - Xenos, 2013-03-13, 22:29
  - Traveler - Xenos, 2013-03-14, 18:33
    - Bungie - Xenos, 2013-03-14, 21:13
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Dagoonite, 2013-03-13, 22:44
  - I think I'm improving with this one! - Dagoonite, 2013-03-16, 01:48
- Wow. - NsU Soldier, 2013-03-13, 23:06
  - Wow. - GauntMkII, 2013-03-14, 04:41
    - On Jams... - NsU Soldier, 2013-03-17, 05:01
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Chewbaccawakka, 2013-03-13, 23:28
- An ode to autumn - Flynn J Taggart, 2013-03-13, 23:46
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - zumphry, 2013-03-13, 23:56
  - For A Few Haikus More - zumphry, 2013-03-14, 01:00
    - I like #2 - Jillybean, 2013-03-14, 14:32
      - I like #2 - zumphry, 2013-03-14, 16:26
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mr Daax, 2013-03-14, 00:02
  - More entries - Mr Daax, 2013-03-14, 19:47
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - JDQuackers, 2013-03-14, 04:12
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - irishfreak, 2013-03-14, 04:17
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - GauntMkII, 2013-03-14, 04:42
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - TTL Demag0gue, 2013-03-14, 05:45
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - thebruce, 2013-03-14, 06:26
  - #1 deserves a round of applause - Jillybean, 2013-03-14, 14:32
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Pfhrogblast, 2013-03-14, 06:49
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - geophf, 2013-03-14, 07:52
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - InsanityPepper, 2013-03-14, 08:17
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - petetheduck, 2013-03-14, 08:18
- To Cody with love - Kermit, 2013-03-14, 08:23
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Anton P. Nym (aka Steve), 2013-03-14, 08:25
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mid7night, 2013-03-14, 09:13
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - CaneCutter, 2013-03-14, 09:31
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Schooly D, 2013-03-14, 09:36
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Reaper777, 2013-03-14, 10:18
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - RC, 2013-03-14, 10:33
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - EffortlessFury, 2013-03-14, 10:34
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - pittofdoom, 2013-03-14, 10:49
- participation point, please - pooberry, 2013-03-14, 10:51
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - WestCoastRonin, 2013-03-14, 11:03
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Vitka Kowalewski, 2013-03-14, 11:04
- Above all, be brave. - Cold, 2013-03-14, 11:30
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - MrPadraig08, 2013-03-14, 11:51
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Jillybean, 2013-03-14, 14:51
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Wakko45, 2013-03-14, 12:27
- Another! - EffortlessFury, 2013-03-14, 13:00
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - INSANEdrive, 2013-03-14, 13:09
  - (1)...More - INSANEdrive, 2013-03-15, 08:25
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Harmanimus, 2013-03-14, 13:12
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Dean Hofmeyer (unhh), 2013-03-14, 13:49
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Jillybean, 2013-03-14, 14:49
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Kermit, 2013-03-14, 15:44
    - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Jillybean, 2013-03-14, 15:51
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - rliebherr, 2013-03-14, 15:23
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ragnarok174, 2013-03-14, 15:35
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Free at Last, 2013-03-14, 16:30
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - ManKitten, 2013-03-14, 16:46
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Arithmomaniac, 2013-03-14, 17:42
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Dean Hofmeyer (unhh), 2013-03-14, 18:00
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Kermit, 2013-03-15, 04:55
- Longing - Kermit, 2013-03-14, 18:24
  - Longing - Stephen Laughlin, 2013-03-14, 21:07
    - Thanks! - Kermit, 2013-03-15, 04:46
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mercury, 2013-03-14, 19:17
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Cold, 2013-03-14, 19:28
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mr Daax, 2013-03-14, 19:40
  - Doesn't the crumbly part contain egg? - ZackDark, 2013-03-14, 19:41
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mercury, 2013-03-14, 20:10
    - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Cold, 2013-03-15, 09:29
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Avateur, 2013-03-14, 22:42
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Grizzlei, 2013-03-14, 23:31
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - RC, 2013-03-15, 05:25
    - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Kermit, 2013-03-15, 05:57
  - YOU SUCK! - Grizzlei, 2014-06-04, 18:35
    - -what. - ZackDark, 2014-06-05, 17:31
- Darkest night - Flynn J Taggart, 2013-03-15, 04:45
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - corporatekiller, 2013-03-15, 07:08
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mr Daax, 2013-03-15, 07:13
- And so... - Malagate, 2013-03-15, 07:53
- Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - Revenant1988, 2013-03-15, 09:01
  - Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - Grizzlei, 2013-03-15, 13:55
    - Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - ZackDark, 2013-03-15, 15:00
      - Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - Grizzlei, 2013-03-15, 15:24
        
        Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - Cold, 2013-03-15, 22:57
        
        Here goes. (Also a syllable counter if anyone needs it) - Ragashingo, 2013-03-16, 00:11
        
        You are way too good at this - Grizzlei, 2013-03-16, 00:55
- Screw traditional Haiku form! - Bones, 2013-03-15, 12:14
- Haiku? - thebruce, 2013-03-15, 14:24
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Cody Miller, 2013-03-16, 03:12
  - lol - Mr Daax, 2013-03-16, 05:32
    - lol - Flynn J Taggart, 2013-03-16, 13:37
  - Dammit, I lol'd - MrPadraig08, 2013-03-17, 20:59
    - Dammit, I lol'd - Ragashingo, 2013-03-17, 21:29
      - Dammit, I lol'd - JDQuackers, 2013-03-18, 04:30
      - Dammit, I lol'd - RC, 2013-03-18, 07:18
        
        Dammit, I lol'd - Ragashingo, 2013-03-18, 07:34
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - EMJAYEL, 2013-03-16, 12:44
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Kalamari, 2013-03-17, 08:20
  - The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Grizzlei, 2013-03-17, 09:15
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Mr Daax, 2013-03-17, 09:51
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - General Vagueness, 2013-03-17, 21:06
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - Stephen Laughlin, 2013-03-18, 22:15
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - rowboat, 2013-03-19, 08:32
- The DBO Challenge - Week 1: Write a haiku. - kapowaz, 2013-03-19, 09:11
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