Some Go haiku

Let alone the fact
That pronounced in Japanese
Ha-i-ku is three

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Quickly we digress
to meta fights, forgetting
we used it as two

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Deep and simple is
so much more essential than
shallow and complex

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Back on-topic:


A capturing race
One more move and you are dead!
Auto-atari…

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A capturing race
neither can win, but to fall
in hanezeki

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A TPK is a new soul
With the innocence of youth
And bad at counting

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On a goban
A cherry blossom falls
Nor black nor white

Season is there
But counting and juxtaposition
Is a battle lost

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I see what you did there too!

But on purpose!?

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Apropos counting
Haiku is five seven five
Cunning joke or not?

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Place, kill or count
But do not cast
For you were TPK once

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If the questioned is me
All my jokes are intentional
But for Go ones

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Just to be more precise about this beautiful form of poetry:

Japanese haiku traditionally consist of 17 “on” or sounds, divided into three sentences: 5 sounds, 7 sounds, and 5 sounds. The poets of other languages have interpreted “on” as syllables.

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Slamming your fierce stone.
Sharp waves in the air advise:
“True sente is mute!”

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Stillness in action
Moonlight on goban fulfils
Now and then are one

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Just to add a little more information to that:

There tend to be more “on” in Japanese words than syllables in English words, which makes English haiku that follow the 5-7-5 pattern generally more wordy than Japanese haiku. Because of this, a lot of the more serious haiku being written in English these days doesn’t follow any syllable requirement at all beyond the general pattern of short-long-short lines.

For five years, from 2010 to 2015, I wrote one haiku a day and posted them to a set of social media, email, and RSS feeds. (www.HaikuDiem.com) The first year, I wrote in 5-7-5. The second year, I switched to 3-5-3 because I felt the poems sounded more haiku-like that way. And then I continued changing up the rules in future years, sometimes not following any syllabic pattern at all.

Here’s my version of the most famous haiku in Japanese literature, by Matsuo Basho, in 5-7-5:

Silent ancient pond:
the frog makes a sudden leap.
Splash! goes the water!

But here’s an attempt that doesn’t follow any syllabic rules that I feel sounds more haiku-like:

Silent pond.
Unmoving frog.
Splash!

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The sandwich poem: 5-3-3-5.

Morning kibitzing
Looked away -
Just five mins -
Everything has changed

Old men in the park
(Schoolgirls laugh
Far away)
Chuckle at the board

i am cat (perfect) -
the human
just plays Go -
pay me attention!

Gathered from the shore,
The ocean’s
Greatest gift
Igo migoto

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Haiku is art
Having kiru at its heart
All the rest is chat.

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Watch a pro
Fall in love with go
Play a pro
Fall once more in love with go

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Many stones on a goban
Divine inspiration, where are you?
Disgracefully ataried myself

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The rhymes have been silent
But the stones keep
Clicking.

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