Laying on the beach
Sound of waves crashing on shore
My mind drifts to trains
- Mike
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To achieve Haiku,
Connect line one to line three,
Using just line two.
Five beats on line one,
Line-two-beats, must be seven,
Line three, five more beats.
The Midweek Haiku,
Subject matter is the test,
It remains my quest.
I’m a non-smoker,
Smoking odors will not do,
Trains not included.
All the wheels are round,
Running fast on three rail tracks,
Happy O gauging.
The smoke billows forth,
Sounds of bell and whistle too,
Chugs in the steamer.
When smoke is too much,
And all the trains disappear,
Time, the air to clear.
Scale wheels, high rail too,
P S One or P S Two,
Just what should I do?
Controversy here,
Just real trains or fantasy,
Why does it exist?
We harp and complain,
About some thing that’s inane.
Just go run a train.
To tinplate or not?
Standard gauge, or just O gauge?
It’s all pretty sharp.
Mike is on the beach
While I am stuck here at work
Thanks a lot Big Guy!
Friday is the Day
Train season is kicking off
Running at the Fair
No work on layout
While Bathroom remodeling
Will it ever end?
Natty Boh Reefers
Stars of the show on Sunday
Watch for Video!
Gilly
September coming up
must start soon remodeling these
2 bathrooms upper floor!
Mike Maurice
Nine Ninety has shipped
Forum is at Peace Today
Give it a minute
I enjoy this post every week but I don't understand what an actual Haiku is.
Spence, haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that is written in single syllables in the form 5-7-5.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
Here's my "Getting out of bed to go to work" haiku:
NO NO NO NO NO
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
NO NO NO NO NO
At one time
dreamt longingly for Hoboville
then woke up & counted blessings!
Mike Maurice
Originally Posted by Mike Maurice:
At one time
dreamt longingly for Hoboville
then woke up & counted blessings!
Mike Maurice
In the Big Rock Candy Mountain
Originally Posted by Spence:
I enjoy this post every week but I don't understand what an actual Haiku is.
A Haiku in English is a short poem which uses imagistic language to convey the essence of an experience of nature or the season intuitively linked to the human condition.[1] It is a development of the Japanese haiku poetic form in the English language.
Some of the more common practices in English include:
- use of three lines of up to 17 syllables,[1] traditionally in "5–7–5" form.[a][2][3]
- allusion to nature or the seasons.[4]
- use of a caesura or kire represented by punctuation, space, a line-break, or a grammatical break[1] to compare two images implicitly
There are breaks from this format on this Forum, but the 5-7-5 rule is typically followed very closely.
Gilly
Well Gilly, that will certainly clear things up for everyone. 
How about this:
At one time dreamed longingly
about Hoboville then suddenly reverie woke out
and counted my blessings aloud!
That better?
Mike Maurice
Originally Posted by Bob Severin:
Well Gilly, that will certainly clear things up for everyone.
Happy to be of service! 
The "Five-Seven-Five"
Of the Haiku "standard" form
Is often tricky.
Late to the party.
Had to fix errant sprinklers
In the yard last night.
Only half awake.
But plugging along at work.
For money for trains.
Mike:
"Seven, fourteen, eight,
Needs to be slimmed down a bit.
Read the rules again."
Thank you Bob & Gilly for the explanations.
