HP Haiku for a slow day (warning, LONG)

[Jennifer Piersol]

"Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:

> Formal style, 7-5-7 syllables per line:

Just a little nit-pick here, as I just taught my students haiku a 
few weeks ago, so it's fresh in my head:

A formal Haiku has typically 17 syllables, in a 5-7-5 pattern.  See
my contributions following Jim's excellent (but not standard! ;) ) 
examples...
 
> Hagrid hatches dragon egg
>  in blazing fireplace
> Norbert rises stealthily
> 
> Hermione does revisions
>  like a Ravenclaw
> None will ever exceed her
> 
> Malfoy prepares to duel
>  Harry will fight him
> "Expelliarmus" they say
> 
> Centaurs gaze in frigid night
>  Mars shows out blood red
> The dark lord prepares for war

Typical 5-7-5 haiku (with an HP theme, of course)

Dragon eggs hatching
in a domus made of wood.
Get some water, quick!

Hermione and Ron
Some think there is something more
there than meets the eye

Snape's a nasty man
or so we would have believed...
Dumbledore trusts him.


Okay, I'm no poet.  It's all I could think of.  Every time I do a 
haiku, it makes me think back to my good ol' days in high school, 
where we had "fun poetry" days... and the "limerick" I made up with
my best friend Anna...

(VERY OT here, but it's allowed... HA!)

There once was a man with no shoes
Who couldn't stop singing the blues
One day in the rain
He felt a sharp pain
And he SCREAMED AND HE SCREAMED but nobody heard him, so he died
and was put on the news.

Anna and I laughed so loud in class that we got in trouble.  We 
thought we might be able to get out of it if we showed our teacher 
the masterpiece we'd written, but alas, our teacher had NO sense of 
humor (that she'd show US, in any case).  I still have bitter 
for Mrs. Nicholson, because I thought my poetry was great, and she 
kept giving me bad grades on it.  And THAT is why I'm not a poet, and 
why my haiku is probably so bad.  But I'm sure that the syllables are 
right. ;)

Whew, that was a terribly OT post.  Oh wait.  No it wasn't.  Because 
all OT posts are OnTopic here. ;)

Jen (who just finished grading her students' final papers, and has to 
start ALL OVER AGAIN with another batch of students next week.  Just 
nine more weeks, just nine more weeks, just nine more weeks........)