Have a go at a Haiku!

[Yamanashi]

Mitakeumi!

Back to three Ozeki ... or

Maybe back to two?

[code_number3]

Wednesday is coming

Will we have the announcement

Of new Ozeki?

[Yamanashi]

Will the last member

On SumoForum tonight

Please turn off the lights?

[Bugman]

Pardon this Haiku,

Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn,

Just a shameless bump.

(but now a serious one)

For one man's dark will,

Those who once loved, laughed and breathed,

Stare sightless, upwards.

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I've enjoyed reading your haikus, i hope you are all well and safe in these sad times.

 

Edited March 2, 2022 by Bugman

[Oshirokita]

Barren branches bloom

Buds grow from what once withered

Renewed by Spring sun

 

 

[Seiyashi]

Sanyaku meltdown.
Four sekiwake next time
and one ozeki?

[Yamanashi]

What a Difference a Day Makes

                    or

That's Why They Have Fifteen Bouts

_____________________________________

Day one: "Teru v.

'Keisho!" Day two: "White rope for

Mitakeumi?"

[Seiyashi]

Reposted from the main Haru thread, courtesy of a (to be fair, rather off-hand statement by @Yamanashi:

Takayasu choked.
Wakatakakage is
Our new first-time champ.

Shin-sekiwake?
Wakatakakage is
Very much unfazed.

Change of shikona?
Wakatakakage says,
Thanks, but no thank you.

Easier scheduling?
But Wakatakakage
fought higher rankers.

Bout controversy?
Wakatakakage does
not care, he has won.

[Yamanashi]

57 minutes ago, Seiyashi said:

Reposted from the main Haru thread, courtesy of a (to be fair, rather off-hand statement by @Yamanashi:

Takayasu choked.
Wakatakakage is
Our new first-time champ.

Shin-sekiwake?
Wakatakakage is
Very much unfazed.

Change of shikona?
Wakatakakage says,
Thanks, but no thank you.

Easier scheduling?
But Wakatakakage
fought higher rankers.

Bout controversy?
Wakatakakage does
not care, he has won.

See what I mean? Only one spot available. (sorry, @Seiyashi, out of reactions for the morning)

[Seiyashi]

8 minutes ago, Yamanashi said:

See what I mean? Only one spot available. (sorry, @Seiyashi, out of reactions for the morning)

I mean, at the risk of quibbling, that makes the haiku easier to create, not so much more difficult. When only one spot is available, the requirements of syntax and semantics means the haiku practically writes itself - the only thing left that can accompany Wakatakakage is either a verb or a conjunction, most of the time.

Boring, on the other hand... 

Edited March 28, 2022 by Seiyashi

[Yamanashi]

On 19/03/2021 at 01:06, Yamanashi said:

There was a young man

named Wakatakakage;

there, that's the haiku.

Receipts from  March 2021.  Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.

[Yaochozuna]

Think the shikona
Of Wakatakakage
Doesn't fit haiku?

[Yamanashi]

I wouldn't presume to make serious suggestions about a centuries-old, world famous poetry form that almost cannot (nay, should not) be rendered in any language but the original.  However, we may have stumbled on to an even more restrictive poetic form: five syllables, then seven syllables with either "syllable-Wakatakakage" or "Wakatakakage-syllable", then five syllables.  Maybe we can continue to loosen the restrictions about mentioning nature and seasons and stuff.  We can't call this form a Waka, because that's already taken (and I don't care if "it uses different characters!")*. Therefore, we need a name for this new super-obscure poetic form.

 

* I don't even care if it does use the same characters

Edited March 28, 2022 by Yamanashi
because

[Yaochozuna]

This new haiku form
Of Wakatakakage
Is called WAKAIKU

[Bugman]

Egg and caramel

The duality of flan

I'll just have one more

[code_number3]

I made this haiku

After watching shogi games

Now back to sumo

(Writer's note: There's Meijin Shogi match this Saturday and Sunday, I may watch them both simultaneously)

Edited May 6, 2022 by code_number3

[Yamanashi]

Welcome back, my friends

To the show that never ends

Natsu basho, hai!

[Yamanashi]

"But the joi haven't

fought the leaders yet!" Please, don't

embarrass them more.

[Seiyashi]

Looking at kabu
Excel sheets proliferate
Wait: JP wiki?!

[code_number3]

This Natsu Basho

What is going on with the

V-A-R system?

 

(Me after reading this tweet) 

 

Edited May 18, 2022 by code_number3

[Yamanashi]

Natsu: Chaos reigns

Up, down, ANYONE CAN WIN!!!

[Terunofuji]

[Yamanashi]

First in a series (maybe):  Basho summary in three lines. Line 1: Days 1-5; Line 2: Days 6-10; Line 3: Days 11-15.  Feel free to contribute.

Teru kyujo, right?

Can Ozeki at least try?

Playoff! No, Teru

[code_number3]

End of the season

We know who are the champions

Let us have a break!

[Yamanashi]

29 minutes ago, code_number3 said:

End of the season

We know who are the champions

Let us have a break!

Out of reactions.  Like!

[Yamanashi]

Asanoyama

Back on the dohyo again,

How fast to Juryo?