The art of the haiku is one of the most ancient and beautiful of the poetic styles. And with a dainty, lovely name like 'haiku' who could disagree? No-one, that's who. So with that in mind, I've written a few haikus based on Britain and it's political state today. Yeah, I'm all activist-y and that. I have my say, sure.
For those who don't know, incidentally, a haiku is a Japanese form, which consists of 17 moras (ie. beats) (ie. syllables) and they go in three lines (in our Westernised version) 5 'moras'; 7 'moras'; 5 'moras'. Here is an example, a sort of meta-haiku:
This is a Haiku.
Or should that be ‘an haiku’?
I don’t really know.
So you see, 5-7-5. Perfect.
And now; Political Haikus!
New Labour, you say?
More like New Moral Failure.
Ooh, yeah, politics.
The winter of Hell;
Blizzardy Britain is cold;
Probably Brown’s fault.
Broken Britain waits,
Obama will visit soon,
He will fix Britain.
David Cameron,
Sits alone in his office,
The Tory bastard.
There we go. Political Haikus.
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