The Infinite Haiku

[kwills]

attacked the red fox
who sounded the horn for help
then the lightening came

[Byron]

attacked the red fox
who sounded the horn for help
then the lightening came

then the light'ning came
but those sheep they had no fear
despat'ch the fox, Cheer!

[Harry S]

despat'ch the fox, Cheer
up Sleepy Jean, oh
what can it mean to

[kwills]

What can it mean to
squash the hyper circling bug?
Alas!poor Byron

[Violet]

Alas! poor Byron
though, Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!
Bird thou never wert


('tis Shelley.. not me)...

[Harry S]

Bird, thou never wert
to play major league baseball
but you did play jazz

[Violet]

but you did play jazz
just as Jim, never ever
brings me pretty flowers

... (flowers pronounced "flours," to keep it one syllable..)... (that's cheating, I know).. (but if he brought me flowers, especially pretty ones.. well I'd be more faithful to the symbolic meaning of my name)...

v i o l e t

[anneporter]

brings me pretty flow'rs
like Honeysuckle Rose[s]
Bird in Lotusland

[lizzytysh]

[I love how you always find the elegance and return us to it, Anne]

Bird in Lotusland
Charlie transported us all
Parker and his horn

[Harry S]

[I love how you always find the elegance and return us to it, Anne]

Bird in Lotusland
Charlie transported us all
Parker and his horn

Parker and his horn
for pretty girls,they blew him
whilst he blew the horn

[Violet]

... just a comment, this time, Harry.. I think the "whilst" adds a touch of class...

[Byron]

Violet, Harry is an olde fashioned sort of guy. His "whilst" is par for the course for a man who likes to wear 18th Century wigs.

[Byron]

Bye the way, the BBC are holding a Poetry season at the present time. Instead of some of the usual adverts for forthcoming programmes, they are giving us small snippets of well known faces reading poetry. It would be rather good if they continued this delightful intersession.
Alas, I suspect the season will be a short one...

[Violet]

whilst he blew his horn
such season would end too soon
time, alas, would win

[Alexandra Scarlet]

time, alas, would win
that's how I console myself
when I watch Demi