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blixt

Here's something to distract you: haikus in Irish. I'm aware that I'm not able to follow the real rules of haikus, and that any haikus I produce aren't really haikus at all but probably more likely to be a senryu ... but if I write 'Senryu in Irish' I doubt I'd get many replies.

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Tá sé in ann dom
Bheith ag foghlaim Gaeilge
Go deireadh an saoil

Anyone else like to have a go?
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oisin718

I'm sure macfhionn would be interested.

Haikus in Irish (and Scottish Gaelic and Welsh) seem to be a hobby of his.

Tim · Last edited by Tim on July 10 2008, 9:47 AM; edited 4 times in total

Well, blixt, you are following the 5-7-5 pattern. And in the spirit of Basho and his cohorts who wrote their haiku amongst narratives of their travels, using the sensibility of the previous one to connect to the following, I would have to say:

tá mo shaol go breá
ag foghlaim le mo chairde
aon anam amháin

my life is so nice
learning with my good friends here
one soul together
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Tim

Ailill

An crann úll lasmuigh (5)
lán le torthaí na gréine. (7)
M'obair féin romham. (5)

Tá siad deacair.
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Mürk

I like generally composing haikus. Wink

Réaltóg ag titim
ón spéir a bhfuil eagla roimh
cuid mhór de daoine
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Tim · Last edited by Tim on July 10 2008, 9:47 AM; edited 5 times in total

Again, drawing from the previous haiku:

céard a réaltacht í
ach titim agus éirí
an bhfuil a fhíos againn

what's reality
but falling and then rising
do we know for sure?
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Tim

Conor · "Aistritheoir Cíocrach" Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 16,127

Ba chóir do dhuine (5)
atá ina bhall anseo (7)
'tá brón orm' a rá (5)

Tim · Last edited by Tim on July 10 2008, 9:48 AM; edited 3 times in total

ó cloisim corrmhíol
atá droch-scéal leis chugainn -
dúnadh an fhuinneog

oh i hear a gnat
bringing bad stories to us
close up the window
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Conor · "Aistritheoir Cíocrach" Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 16,127

Niall Mór · "Laoch na nGael" Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 933

sneachta ar na sléibhte;
gealach i lár na spéire;
solas ar domhain 'sar Neamh
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