Haiku

What????!
Only 4 syllables in the final line!

Shame! Shame!

 

Master of Haiku
Peter knows a thing or two
Fourth line came up short

 

^^ Oh No !!! You were going so well until you put "fourth line" :wink:

 

God you're right!

A couple of beers, a glass or two of wine - the haiku seems to compose itself in a few seconds.

But wrong.


OK I'll do it right now:

Master of Haiku
Peter knows a thing or two
Third line came up short

 

There's something vaguely Tolkienesque about those last two.

 

Hairy feet and smiles
Somewhat surpassed by events
Plucky little souls

 

Smaug was quiet enough
Guarding treasure with fierce fire
Foutez-lui la paix

 

Windswept piazza
Concrete alienation
Out of the slums now

 

Philip's no mate of mine
Insistently whispering
He means me no good

 

Three years ago now
Heart attack central, lucky
I felt cheated - quit

 

Joy and frustration
Bending fingers in strange shapes
Mastering guitar

 

I realised this once I had gone to bed (and you were under the impression that no thought at all goes into this!)

So it should be:

Phil's no mate of mine
Insistently whispering [for it it more insistent than seductive. Seductive I can handle - it's the insistency I don't like]
He means me no good


Could be too abstruse that way, though in a cig-smoking thread, maybe comprehensible.