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The Cockroach Haiku's (or Hokku)

Commentary:

The poem is a Japanese tercet; its lines exist of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. In my early autograph album of poetry, I did several of them; to be proper, the lines are unrhymed, I say decorous in the facility of how the nursery rhyme was expected to be.

We can add to this hardship, pithy poem, by tallying the pet name of a longer Haiku, called Tanka. Here we add two extra lines. Thus, devising a chain, and now we got 5 lines; the two other lines have seven syllables each. I have through these poems in the medieval (not denotive them Tanka, but they were). This constituent of the verse form should spin smoothly near the above three lines.

There are ever exceptions to the policy, is that not true, and in my case, it is good, because I do not suchlike to be fast into form, to wherever it robs effect, and reaction. Thus, we have the Enclosed Tercet, that allows rhyme (aba)) routinely)). Then we have the Sicilian Tercet, this too allows rhyme, metrical foot verse line.

We can besides go to the Triad, a floppy Irish sort. I'm bit Irish, so this can move in convenient. Here we have cardinal tercets, all attitude quite a lot of association to all other, and all consisting to be one literary work. Then you see Siluk's Haiku, and that is another anecdote. We have respective linking poems, quite a lot of with a thin rime to it, others not, the lines are 17-syllables, and normally I similar to them 7, 5, 5 -not e'er conversely. (there are opposite forms of verse form I have not mentioned, Chinese, etc., and I suggest the chief intention of the haiku, or literary composition (or any nursery rhyme for that substance), is to ascertain it is legible to the scholar (if not a limited commission in mind, for whatsoever poems are so difficult, you stipulation a concoction to unbolt them). Light it may be, or ambitious and lashing. Here it is lighthearted, but some correctness to it.

The Cockroach Haiku's
(The poems)

Cockroach I

Now listen, you Cockroaches-

don't communicate the thieves-

where I live!

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Cockroach II

Leaping from my neighbor's yard

"Excuse me," he said,

"Where is the curst bread?"

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Cockroach III

The darkness is so endless and hot,

Here the cockroach rests

By my sleeping room door!...

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Cockroach IV

Fatty cockroach, enchant stomach still

Dennis is coming

(where are my glasses?)

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Cockroach V

The old fat cockroach, he bends

His fat miniature knees

Listening for me.

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Cockroach VI

Cockroach, dictyopterous insect suit beware

I'm stepping down

These easier said than done wooden stairway.

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Cockroach VII

Since it is summertime and hot

Can we not, have some-

Cockroach courtesy?

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(1-30-2007))Written in the evening, piece in Lima, Peru)) Commentary value-added 1-31-2007, and poems restructured.