NaisaiKu!

Welcome to
Wendy Naisa's
NaisaiKu!

The following are some examples of my cyclical Haiku style poetry:

THE RULES FOR
NaisaiKu!

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All you do is write a Haiku of five, seven, five syllables
then re-enter the first line as the central TITLE
then reverse the cycle so line 5 reads the same as line 3
line 6 reads the same as line 2
and finally line 7 should be the same as line 1 and line 4.
And that’s about it!

So you should end up with seven lines and 39 syllables.

Just to make things more complicated there's also a forty-one syllable NaisaiKu
where the second line is repeated as the TITLE, in some ways this seems the more logical way to go as the piece then can be read as three seperate Haiku, almost...

Here's an example of a 41 syllable NaisaiKu which is also known as a Cycliku!

it don't have to rhyme
forty-one silly-billy
on just a few lines
FORTY-ONE SILLY-BILLY
on just a few lines
forty-one silly-billy
it don't have to rhyme


You can make Just for fun NaisaiKu rhyme or not.

Finally, you can of course use the third line as the TITLE if you need to emphasise something like this, perhaps:

Shout out, shout it out!
SHOUT OUT, SHOUT IT OUT!
Shout out, shout it out!


The rules are so simple that you could even convert
an existing Haiku into this style if you so wish.

Just a bit of fun!

Andy Sewina

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If and when you do, please leave a link to your post
in the comments on this post so others can enjoy your work too!

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Just a bit of fun
Beats clearing the winter snow
Hip hip hip hooray
JUST A BIT OF FUN
Hip hip hip hooray
Beats clearing the winter snow
Just a bit of fun
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Just a little laugh
Do you wanna be my date
I'M ONLY JOKING
Do you wanna be my date
Just a little laugh
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Animalistic
Uncharacteristically
Hippopotamus
ANIMALISTIC
Hippopotamus
Uncharacteristically
Animalistic
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You tell them three times
Then they think that they told you
Who the hell yell you
WHO THE HELL YELL YOU
Who the hell yell you
Then they think that they told you
You tell them three times

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Skating on the pond
If the ice cracks don’t go on
Hippopotamus
SKATING ON THE POND
Hippopotamus
If the ice cracks don’t go on
Skating on the pond

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Pyjamarama
Semantics and all that jazz
Hippopotawhat
SEMANTICS AND ALL THAT JAZZ
Hippopotawhat
Semantics and all that jazz
Pyjamarama

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Hippopotawot
Hippopotawotamus
Hippopotamus
HIPPOPOTAWOT
Hippopotamus
Hippopotawotamus
Hippopotawot

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Hippo atoms up
Anagrammatically
Hippopotamus
ANAGRAMMATICALLY
Hippopotamus
Anagrammatically
Hippo atoms up

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Squash tomato stew
Hippopotamus to you
Over twenty one
SQUASH TOMATO STEW
Over twenty one
Hippopotamus to you
Squash tomato stew

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Put your catchphrase here
Shout it from the rooftops too
Write it on the wall
PUT YOUR CATCHPHRASE HERE
Write it on the wall
Shout it from the rooftops too
Put your catchphrase here

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Drink yourself sober
We don’t serve drunks in this bar
We pickle their brains
WE PICKLE THEIR BRAINS
We pickle their brains
We don’t serve drunks in this bar
Drink yourself sober

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Just another day
‘Cos tomorrow never comes
Much like yesterday
JUST ANOTHER DAY
Much like yesterday
‘Cos tomorrow never comes
Just another day

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Writers are blighters
But only on Friday nights
PHILOSOPHICAL
But only on Friday nights
Writers are blighters


I have posted some different NaisaiKu! on my SweetTalkingGuy bloggage!