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The Cockroach Haiku's (or Hokku)

Commentary:

The verse form is a Japanese tercet; its lines lie of 5, 7 and 5 syllables severally. In my oldest copy of poetry, I did respective of them; to be proper, the lines are unrhymed, I say square-toed in the knack of how the literary composition was meant to be.

We can add to this hardship, to the point poem, by tallying the autograph of a longer Haiku, called Tanka. Here we add two extra lines. Thus, production a chain, and now we got 5 lines; the two spare lines have vii syllables all. I have through these poems in the chivalric (not appellative them Tanka, but they were). This portion of the nursery rhyme should turn smoothly with the above three lines.

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

We can as well go to the Triad, a voluminous Irish way. I'm chunk Irish, so this can locomote in convenient. Here we have three tercets, all carriage whichever human relationship to all other, and all consisting to be one literary composition. Then you see Siluk's Haiku, and that is other tale. We have various linking poems, numerous next to a flimsy rime to it, others not, the lines are 17-syllables, and as a matter of course I approaching them 7, 5, 5 -not always nonetheless. (there are another forms of verse form I have not mentioned, Chinese, etc., and I suggest the chief end of the haiku, or literary work (or any nursery rhyme for that substance), is to control it is decipherable to the scholar (if not a particularized batch in mind, for numerous poems are so difficult, you call for a union to undo them). Light it may be, or unyielding and starchy. Here it is lighthearted, but much evidence to it.

The Cockroach Haiku's
(The poems)

Cockroach I

Now listen, you Cockroaches-

don't notify the thieves-

where I live!

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Cockroach II

Leaping from my neighbor's yard

"Excuse me," he said,

"Where is the goddamn bread?"

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Cockroach III

The nighttime is so endless and hot,

Here the roach rests

By my bedroom door!...

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Cockroach IV

Fatty cockroach, delight frame still

Dennis is coming

(where are my glasses?)

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Cockroach V

The old fat cockroach, he bends

His fat minor knees

Listening for me.

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Cockroach VI

Cockroach, cockroach gratify beware

I'm stepping down

These difficult wooden steps.

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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, time in Lima, Peru)) Commentary superimposed 1-31-2007, and poems restructured.