RF haiku poetry

[FrankS]

We're a creative bunch. If you feel like it, please contribute a poem about RF photography, in Haiku form, in this thread.

Haiku is one of the most important modes of Japanese poetry. A traditional Haiku consists of 3 lines: 5 sylables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

With this rangefinder
Seinfeld asks, "What range? Find what?!"
Silently, I snap.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Decisive Moment:
I frame, I focus, I snap.
You are oblivious.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

The Prized Photograph
Foiled by The Evil Lenscap:
Darkness becomes you.

 

[JoeFriday]

Leica says to me
direct me toward the subject
take the stupid shot

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Nikon and Leica singing:
"I can take better pictures than you"
"No you can't"
"Yes I can"
"No you can't"
"Yes I can"
"No you can't"
"Yes I caaaaaaaaaaaaaaan"....

Sorry. Haikus. Stick to haikus, not rehashing Broadway songs...

 

[JoeFriday]

your Nikon does a great impression of Ethel Merman!

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

I dont know if in english exist the same metric than in spanish

I know! In English it's a lot more complicated with some "weird" rules (that of course, from a non-English point of view); you have to know how the word is pronounced, not just by how it's written. In Spanish, no hay pierde 😉

 

[Film dino]

Is an OT Haiku allowed?
(Well I do use my Mac for photography...)
The Blue Screen of Death...
Creativity returns
Chewing an Apple

 

[ch1]

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Haiku is one of the most important modes of Japanese poetry. A traditional Haiku consists of 3 lines: 5 sylables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

My rangefinder shoots
Subjects begin to quiver
Oh, no camera shake

 

[anselwannab]

FSU Zorki
Lightmeter is in my head
guess the exposure

???

My family isn't good with syllabuls. My brother thought there were three in the word sled.

Sl-ed-a

true story

 

[sf]

Always the Haiku. If it is so tailored to the linguistics of the Japanese language, why not try something more English style? I used to be great at writing poems about random things, until I woke up one day and could write no more.

Here are sites about Haiku :

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm

and here is a bit of non-haiku poetry. Actually, it is not a poem, but merely a list of brands arranged somewhat into rhyming sets of syllables. Took me a couple hours.

Fuji
Hasselblad
Leica
Makina

Nikon
Ikon
Minolta
Mamiya

Alpa
Bronica
Canon
Minolta

Contax
Konica
kodak
and Holga

Yashica
Minox
Olympus
Cambo

Chaika
Pentax
Argus
and Lomo

Agfa
zeiss
voigtlander
moskva
Petri
Ricoh
Zorki
Samoka . . .
Arco
Zenit
Linhof
Kowa

Rollei
FED
Graphic
plaubel

Kiev
Royal
smena
lubitel . .

pretty weak there at the end, but I get points just collecting all those names and shuffling them for a couple hours here.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

shadows falling now

thunder breaks into the day

only the argus

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Seeing a cats eye

setting the aperture ring

the shot is taken

 

[sf]

A Haiku :


U District Street Scene
Nighttime photography stroll
The rain is falling

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Seussian verse possible here?

Seussian verse possible here?

Frank? Can we write verse in the form of Theodore Geisel aka Dr.Seuss ?

 

[Frank Granovski]

Haiku is one of the most important modes of Japanese poetry. A traditional Haiku consists of 3 lines: 5 syllables in the first, 7 in the second, and 5 in the third.

I used to enjoy writing those back in my university years. Though simple, it is quite difficult. Haiku, Mama! (Native-Guatemalan dialect). 🙂

 

[taffer]

oh green eye redhead
come into my r-f patch
you have a sister?

 

[sf]

oh green eye redhead
come into my r-f patch
you have a sister?

now that is what I'm talkin' 'bout!

 

[taffer]

now that is what I'm talkin' 'bout!

I only had to let my mind go on its own 😛