Part of Cornwell Internet's contribution to the 2001 Literature Festival was a workshop on A Web of Words. To demonstrate how easily text can be displayed on the internet, we set up an "instant haiku" page, and invited visitors, real and virtual, to the Durham Literature Festival to contribute. Here are the haiku they wrote - and the page is still open: you are still welcome to add a haiku of your own to the collection.
A haiku is a Japanese poem of three lines, containing five, seven, and five syllables.
Traditional haiku contain a reference to the season - spring, summer, autumn or winter - but this need not be explicit.
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Durham: Cathedral Rises high upon its rock Castle's built on sand. by Roger Verse should be epic,Weighty, full of Sturm und Drang. Haiku are for wimps. by Chaz OnomatopoeiaUttering strange sounds Poets on a mat appear Hypnotizing us by Geoff Some prefer epics:No judgement. Some like haiku; Some noise, some silence. by Neil Haiku are too zen,too posed. The sound of one hand clapping? Solid air. by Chaz Why fix a moment,when transience is its point? Let the small thing go. by Chaz I'll have the Quattro Stagioni, pleaseTender shoots of verse Haiku, the first miniature Growth, promise of spring. Long pale evenings of midnight sun. Epics - stay reading until dawn! In the store cupboard Bottled fruit glow red and gold: Memories - haiku. Night falls early now. Outside, cold winds drive the snow. Stay in, read novels. by Jean I am thankful todayContemplation soul soothes Yes, I am thankful by Ian Isaac Chaz, shut your ale holeYou, the bossy, mouthy child Others run away by Ian Isaac Talk from the tableChair legs scoot across the floors Appliances hum by Ian Isaac I'm not very gladRainy feeling tired and sad Circumstances bad by Ian Isaac My gut's turkey stuffedPeople are starving elsewhere How does that work out by Martin Filderbrendt expansive pine treenearly fills the entire house needles ev'rywhere by Ian Isaac scott. knife in my chest.i hide under the blankets, tears, burning my cheeks. by erikamarie mi alma vendopor ti, mi vida completo cambio del tiempo by erikamarie White snow and bright skyDeep blue and white cresting waves a scene from my home by Cornelia wumbplays folk music round the clock well worth listening by Roger To love a personIs to unselfishly love Another person. by mc Little blue lettersLinks to different places All day I surf by Christopher Loy Trees dropping their leafsBitter chill fills the night air Fall coming again by Christopher Loy Branches bushes leafsReds browns greens yellows falling Bareness on the trees by Christopher Loy My friend likes hittingHitting me when he is bored Pain sometimes hurts me by Anna Nomis Here I composeSitting sitting at a computer Showing my Haiku by Haiku Guy -HaikuVerses of poems Little letters fill my heart Haiku ascension by Christopher Loy Chocolate cheese cakeHot fudge sunday with out nuts Dessert is yummy by CoCoDuder what the hell is it?never found myself all right am I a misfit? by RIP crunching sound. a beep.the data's in nirvana. my head is bowed--pain. by Andrew Gerber little butterflyflying in the wind today winter is over by Mary Westudock Haiku for Ramsey CampbellRamsey in May Street Stops. Looks down at - dead weeds? No - a bird's skeleton. by Jean sweltering sunlighta lizard pops its head out of cooling system by David Margetson I asked myself onceif a man walks in his sleep who's there to guide him by David Margetson Nausea grips meBroken bodies, heavy heart A monochrome world by Kiyoko On sugar limestone,Juniper and violets By the loud brown Tees. by Jean Tap on the keyboard,the program is rewritten so it works again. by Roger In the middle of the nightI wake up, and there's still the dark. by S.S. zero Snowman please don't cry,All your tears go into stream, See you next winter! by Brittany Tsai Flowers bowing down,Raindrops dancing on the pads. Sunshine where are you? by Brittany Tsai The rest in peace sign doesnt madderAll that madders is the bad luck If you sit on it. by Dakota Grizzle A leaf in the breezeSwaying flying and twirling In the wind it blows by Aileen A cold wild bird shimering in the sky his love fades for me in the vanlia skies my love stand alone but tears can't rewrite the past what shall I can I doby Chanelle Flash of thunder booms:He is taking photographs Of terrified men. by Sean Godley you are to me brightbright as the stars that shine above your light makes me dull by Linda B. tin roofs shimmeringantennas, guy wires, clotheslines- boy looks at his kite by einnos a web serviceportal is not a service inequality by Joe Predishnoto lyato otmina sega, samoten kryasak na ptiza - esen e!by Dimitar Boyadzhiev I always knew it!I even suspected it! Now I've forgot it?? by Richard Fair dont make me angryCos if you do i will snap And you dont want that by mr x We try oh so hardto find the perfect haiku All of you succeed. by Pat Mac hospital room mistfell across my father's eyes- then hair of snow died by stephen cold wind unendingwater over water waves- the joy of ageing! by paul darkening evening skysouthern trains commute homeward hot tea awaits by Paul Trapped in slices of breadmultiple universe-- Then birds eat the crumbs by Gregory W Golden sunday afternoon--two scoops of journalists in vanilla ice cream by Gregory W Golden winter solstice—sheets of ice eclipse fluorescent moon by Gregory W Golden Thy rod and staffClap of thunder-- Praise the fist of mars by Gregory W Golden sweet bliss and innocenceconstellation blue ox beat sword into plough by Gregory W Golden Burgundy eyesold bones tell lies trail of spider web by Gregory W Golden peach wind spring--in columns of twos ants march across stars by Gregory W Golden black beetle bugcaught in soap bubble why drain bathtub by Gregory W Golden tea water comes toa boiling roll on stovetop inner harmony by phebe o'connor winter soltice rainstea water boiling on stove warming up heart strings by phebe o'connor christmas eve a-lightthe hearth fire brewing warmth reading my 'kindle' by phebe o'connor christmas day morning_gray clouds hovering over warming fire's light by phebe o'connor day after x-maslonging for sight of crocus spring's harbinger bud by anon day after x-maslonging for sight of crocus spring's harbinger bud by phebe o'connor leafless branches leavedry debris on ground fit for kindling the spirit by phebe o'connor new year's day beckons_heartfelt resolutions a- waken the soul by phebe o'connor new year's day beckons_heartfelt resolutions a- waken the soul by phebe o'connor 'global warming' freezea lie freezing common sense those who might listen by phebe o'connor january cold_warm toes by electric heat holding a good read by phebe o'connor by anon by anon by anon Street corner dust binBlossoming spring scent all round Petals closed baby girl by Thayumanavan G Weed is what I smoke,toke, toke, toke the night away, haiku's are a joke. by Wholeeeohkun it is so hottoo many people around and too much stress by Lii Nua it is so hottoo many people around and too much stress by Lii Nua |