h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Still-shot frame of pure
and vast beauty, gazing down
in benign colours.

Next: A scattering of sugar grains on the kitchen table

"Baked beans are not
worthy of the great effot
of a true haiku

Not much is well
worthy of the great effort
of a true haiku

so as a seeker
of truth and all of that tosh,
what am I to do?"

5 syllables is
The required length to write
First lines of Haikus

Oh... I messed up. I
guess I'll go now. Think I've now
failed. Sob. And badly.

1. Come back FP, all is forgiven...
2. Hi Mullet, "Next topic" is also required by this thread, so, as sugar grains were not hiked for a haiku, here goes:......

Sugar grains scattered -
Like snow upon Mount Fuji,
But nicer to eat.

nt: holiday postcards

Holiday postcards
letting me know how much fun
that I'm not having

NT:
Black hole.

A black hole is not
so much a subject, more like
the final object.

nt: nail clippers

need to have short nails
typing and playing guitar
nail clippers- solution!

NT reformation of the house of lords...

reformation of
the house of lords is too sad
a haiku topic

nt: something else (wild card, you pick!)

(Smelly feet),

smell under my nose
oh what can it be? I search,
its my smelly feet!

NT; see saws

Jupiter so far,
i stare at you longing for
this snow to desist

sunshine strikes the gong
not making it ring out but
improving its tone

sorry new topic computers

i keep posting these
as replies on a different
page and ending up here

It's the way of life,
Poor loverlyboy,
Computers are just glitchy.

OK chaps, sorry to be a pedantic old bore and all that, but this thread seems to be drifting off its accepted criteria.
1. Haiku ( western style ) structure: five syllables
seven syllables
five syllables.

Then, choose the New Topic:

oooh fussy!!

five seven five form.
seasons like winter provide
a deeper meaning.

fights in paradise?
not good for the future of
haikumerisms!!!

play nice kids! -x-

nt: playground

rain on the playground.
i wish my plimsolls had a
more effective sole.

nt. call centres

Switched again and passed
again, moved again and dis
located. Now wait-

nt: Despair