Have a go at a Haiku!

[Kintamayama]

What is all this fuss?

While the cats are not around

It's anyone's game

[Getayukata]

Four kuro boshi

Faced with this reality

Kise weeps inside

[Sora]

drainpipe lasagne

your mum is a dutch plumber

a nice day for pork

 

 

do they have to make sense?

[Yamanashi]

13 hours ago, Sora said:

do they have to make sense?

What, you mean yours didn't?

[Eikokurai]

Three Yokozuna

But this honbasho is now

Yokozuna free

[Yamanashi]

No Yokozuna,

"Age of Warring Rikishi"

Who's Nobunaga?

[Oshirokita]

Takayasu twirls

Takakeisho thrusts at air

Yusho slips away?

[Yamanashi]

"Had him in his grip!"

Takakeisho on the sand ...

Emotion at last.

[Yamanashi]

No basho for weeks!

"Now is the winter of our

(Sumo) discontent"

[Shinrei]

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(inspired by a similar post from Tumblr user iventuredfromminecraftia)

[Yumenofude]

The basis of play:

face-off, advance, clash or turn --

'til one falls or leaves.

 

(I'm afraid this isn't very lyrical... but I'll try again soon. I really like the notion of sumo as a topic for haiku.)

[Asojima]

Takanohana
Kyokai connection kaput
Takanoiwa

[Yumenofude]

Knitting, chatting, food

and hot tea all left when we

hear, "Tachi-ai"

[Yamanashi]

36 minutes ago, Yumenofude said:

Knitting, chatting, food

and hot tea all left when we

hear, "Tachi-ai"

Interesting ... how many syllables are in tachi-ai as pronounced in 日本語 ?

[Yumenofude]

 

11 hours ago, Yamanashi said:

Interesting ... how many syllables are in tachi-ai as pronounced in 日本語 ?

Good morning from Europe to you, Yamanashi!

 

Each vowel will be one "syllable" - or, a term of art I recently learned, "more" ("moh-ray").

Ta-chi a-i.

 

Of course, if I was being completely strict with "more" rather than syllables, I'd have to make a very harsh rewrite of my latest effort.

[Eikokurai]

6 hours ago, Yumenofude said:

 

Good morning from Europe to you, Yamanashi!

 

Each vowel will be one "syllable" - or, a term of art I recently learned, "more" ("moh-ray").

Ta-chi a-i.

 

Of course, if I was being completely strict with "more" rather than syllables, I'd have to make a very harsh rewrite of my latest effort.

It’s ‘morae’ in plural and ‘mora’ in singular. :)

[Yumenofude]

7 minutes ago, Eikokurai said:

It’s ‘morae’ in plural and ‘mora’ in singular. :)

Oooh, yes! Thank you - I'd been fumbling and not getting what I needed to have. Thanks for the reminder!

[Eikokurai]

36 minutes ago, Yumenofude said:

Oooh, yes! Thank you - I'd been fumbling and not getting what I needed to have. Thanks for the reminder!

Sure. I’ve studied and work in the linguistics field so this sort of jargon is in my brain somewhere.

[Shio-kago]

Morning of fresh starts

Don't take things so much to heart!

My resolution.

[Yamanashi]

Dreary skies of tin

The slick grass squishes and burps

I'm going inside.

[Yamanashi]

Two rows of names on

the bottom of the home page --

basho time again!

 

[orandashoho]

Life can be cruel
It had been so sweet before
But now it's a hell

Gone are the glories,
Remaining is a nightmare,
There is no escape

You try to hang on
But it'is slipping away
Everyone knows it

igniominiously
with honour fretted away,
the fight is over.

This fall is painful,
Its wound will need long healing
But there is a cure.

A new life awaits
with Oyakata honour
and regained respect

Always remembered
as the national champion
ending a long drought.

[Getayukata]

Kisenosato

Spirit was willing, flesh weak

Go to the Good Night

[Atenzan]

8 hours ago, Getayukata said:

Kisenosato

Spirit was willing, flesh weak

Go to the Good Night

Mawashi now hangs

On the wall, but it is cold-

Get a yukata

[Rocks]

33 minutes ago, Atenzan said:

Mawashi now hangs

On the wall, but it is cold-

Get a yukata

Kisenosato

Yokozuna no more

Refrigerator