Periodic haikus

August 4, 2017 11:44 AM

The shame of your name/now lost except to the Greeks/no need to fume. (bromine). A personal note/could mefites reply on this/only in haiku?
posted by auntie-matter (70 comments total)

what a great way to
insure a low comment count
forcing us to think
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:56 AM on August 4, 2017 [6 favorites]

Nice. But in Ytter-
bium, "Quintillion" has
four syllables (fight!).

I lik the bred.
posted by radicalawyer at 11:57 AM on August 4, 2017 [3 favorites]

(perhaps a good plan
to make this a firm rule in
the politics threads)
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 11:57 AM on August 4, 2017 [12 favorites]

Poor haiku art form
So often misunderstood
by those who think that counting syllables is the important part
posted by 256 at 12:07 PM on August 4, 2017 [15 favorites]

this is just to say
I have worked in the haikus
to our other gag
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:08 PM on August 4, 2017 [19 favorites]

Drat! I've just begun
Already it seems I have
Run out of syllab
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:09 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

MetaFilter: I
Have worked in the haikus to
Our other gag, too
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:10 PM on August 4, 2017 [16 favorites]

In this thread: Pedants.
Whatever haikus once were
Now they are this thing.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 12:10 PM on August 4, 2017 [12 favorites]

I appreciate
Buddhainabucket's wise
Parenthetical
posted by Etrigan at 12:12 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

Radium
Licked by the women
painting luminous watches.
How much time stolen?

Mercury
Madness the price paid
for your molten alchemy.
Metal. Planet. God.

These are wonderful-
surprisingly lyrical.
Plz RTFA.
posted by showbiz_liz at 12:12 PM on August 4, 2017 [7 favorites]

Comment on this thread
Only in haiku form or
You are dead to us
posted by DirtyOldTown at 12:16 PM on August 4, 2017 [3 favorites]

Imposed constraints are
A fantastic thing, and yet
I struggle to care.

It's hard not to ask,
Isn't chemistry enough?
What purpose haiku?
posted by eotvos at 12:20 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

As long as we are
working haikus into other gags,
this will not wendell
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:21 PM on August 4, 2017 [5 favorites]

Also don't forget
The three elements of funk
Earth and Wind and Fire
posted by rocket88 at 12:24 PM on August 4, 2017 [9 favorites]

Oh my god, people.
Can't you do anything right?
Count your syllables!
posted by Sys Rq at 12:25 PM on August 4, 2017

I will not be forced
To reply in this stiff way
This is no haiku
posted by Splunge at 12:26 PM on August 4, 2017

Currently trying
to fit in the Treaty of
Westphalia. Phail.
posted by oneswellfoop at 12:27 PM on August 4, 2017 [4 favorites]

Kryptonite’s not real,
But Superman thinks it is.
Psychosomatic?
posted by jenkinsEar at 12:31 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

O moderators
please trim the violators —
only keep haiku.
posted by D.C. at 12:33 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

How is it possi
To write a coherent po
In seventeen syl
posted by Sing Or Swim at 12:36 PM on August 4, 2017 [8 favorites]

You cannot make me
I don't want to do the thing
you are not my boss
posted by yhbc at 12:38 PM on August 4, 2017 [8 favorites]

Kryptonite is real
Richard Pryor just fucked up
Substituting tar
posted by Etrigan at 12:39 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Scintillating mass
Of peridotite crystal
Deep mantle bauble.
posted by Oyéah at 12:43 PM on August 4, 2017

Chemical haiku
Elegant and spare, clearly
Genius at work!
posted by Oyéah at 12:45 PM on August 4, 2017

Congratulations!
Eponysterical post
achievement unlocked.
posted by misteraitch at 12:45 PM on August 4, 2017 [6 favorites]

O moderators
please trim the violators —
only keep haiku.

[still pond in old wood
the frog chooses, jump or not
freedom in soft wind]
posted by cortex at 12:47 PM on August 4, 2017 [11 favorites]

A daguerreotype,
if sensitized with bromine,
makes the plate faster.

(tapping my fingers,
like I was mad, or pissed off:
"Sorry. Just haiku.")
posted by the Real Dan at 12:55 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

My stove is ancient
The elements still work, but
Liners never fresh.
posted by Capt. Renault at 12:55 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

My best friend has the
best ending for a Haiku:
You are dead to me
posted by agatha_magatha at 1:08 PM on August 4, 2017 [3 favorites]

Chicago may be
second city to New York,
but we have alleys.

Dodging mattresses,
boxes and other trash scuffs
the Big Apple's shine.
posted by me3dia at 1:09 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

fluorine become free
no no no no no no no
aaaagh burn burn burn boom
posted by lalochezia at 1:11 PM on August 4, 2017 [6 favorites]

The sky is heavy
damp air blankets the hillside
you are dead to me
posted by agatha_magatha at 1:12 PM on August 4, 2017 [3 favorites]

In the cicada's cry
There's no sign that can foretell
Wine comes in a box
posted by Stonestock Relentless at 1:22 PM on August 4, 2017 [3 favorites]

22 Ti

Oh Titanium
I Sia what you did there
A strong melody
posted by pjsky at 1:23 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

All the properties
You want, and none you don't want:
Unobtainium!
posted by Spathe Cadet at 1:26 PM on August 4, 2017 [10 favorites]

"Rutherfordium"
for he who found his centre
and lived a full-life.
posted by pracowity at 1:29 PM on August 4, 2017

strange, that hydrogen
massive, positive center
matched by lightest e^-
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 1:31 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

Oulipo haiku?
Gesundheit, my dear poet
Gesundheit my dear
posted by chavenet at 1:35 PM on August 4, 2017

No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No. No.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No.
posted by Samizdata at 1:43 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

In my rush to post
I missed the elemental
theme, now to repair.

Neon's orange-red glow
shimmers on the wet pavement
on a rainy night.
posted by me3dia at 1:46 PM on August 4, 2017 [4 favorites]

one atom carbon,
four hydrogen makes methane
makes farts for your butt
posted by DirtyOldTown at 1:51 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

Aluminium
Or is it Aluminum?
Depends where you live.
posted by bluejayway at 1:54 PM on August 4, 2017 [8 favorites]

Mix the FPP,
ode of gas and ode of tin,
and Mad Ape Den law.
posted by DevilsAdvocate at 1:55 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

O noble gasses,
be you too proud to accept
young Oganesson?
posted by me3dia at 2:00 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Silly helium
fun while it lasts, escape from
tanks and atmospheres
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 2:03 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

How do chemists fuck?
They do it on the table
Periodically
posted by dephlogisticated at 2:03 PM on August 4, 2017 [5 favorites]

Unobtainium

Though nonexistent
it can be mined for it is
true box office gold
posted by Hairy Lobster at 2:05 PM on August 4, 2017

A hard beginning,
But a simple conclusion:
Elementary.
posted by Beginner's Mind at 2:10 PM on August 4, 2017

sodium: no chill
raging when you touch water
Why you so salty?
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 2:12 PM on August 4, 2017 [4 favorites]

No body expects
The element of Surprise.
(Inquisition?)
posted by oneswellfoop at 2:18 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

I only read the
comments, and do not over think
that plate of beans, no.
posted by infini at 2:22 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Mithral
The glint in dwarf eyes
Brighter than golden glisters
Shines in the darkness
posted by Sparx at 2:35 PM on August 4, 2017 [2 favorites]

There's antimony,
arsenic, aluminum,
selenium, and ...
posted by Wobbuffet at 3:45 PM on August 4, 2017 [4 favorites]

I do not know how
people wedged these elements
into their haikus
posted by pernoctalian at 4:16 PM on August 4, 2017 [6 favorites]

Drop it in water,
yellow sparks fly late one night
on the river Charles.
posted by madcaptenor at 4:18 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Information
Golden, the sun sets
As my Echo Dot tells me
What it's like outside
posted by Autumnheart at 6:11 PM on August 4, 2017

na na na na
na na na na
hey hey hey good bye
posted by dmd at 6:51 PM on August 4, 2017

poor brass, so shiny,
I offer you a symbol
inequality
posted by sylvanshine at 7:17 PM on August 4, 2017

Earth air wind and fire
You saved the cavemen and made me
What I am today.
posted by sylvanshine at 7:26 PM on August 4, 2017

Einstein, yikes, um, like,
what happened there? There's poison
In the earth and air.
posted by sylvanshine at 7:36 PM on August 4, 2017

Let me go uh-on
Like a blister in the sun
I know you're the one
posted by Dumsnill at 8:14 PM on August 4, 2017

Enema Man called:
"Your enema is ready..."
Barium 'shooters'?
posted by Amor Bellator at 9:18 PM on August 4, 2017 [1 favorite]

Hesitating hands...
Now type out the morae like
singing cicadas!

Count after thunder
to measure the coming storm,
but feel its approach

Counted sounds only
do not a true haiku make —
they are scattered leaves

Number in haiku
is but its unopened bud;
contrast its blossom!

—

The number of charge
is an atom stripped naked:
its clothes are ions.

Bunched grapes of protons
make sweet wine for electrons
and draw them like flies.

Mendeleev brought
an atomic calendar,
its dates are timeless.

Mists settle to dew
as the lark takes flight to sing:
"Atoms are haiku!"

"Repel and attract:
each atom is knotted by
a woven rainbow!"
posted by biogeo at 9:40 PM on August 4, 2017 [6 favorites]

Oxygen: breathe in
Carbon dioxide: breathe out
Trees do it backwards.
posted by h00py at 2:14 AM on August 5, 2017 [3 favorites]

Sultry elements
Lacking kiro and kigo
Fail to impress me
posted by oheso at 6:29 AM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

Hey Metafilter:
Thought I would participate.
Hence, here's a haiku.
posted by mr. digits at 8:02 AM on August 5, 2017 [1 favorite]

I did not expect
Much from chemistry haikus
But these are quite nice.
posted by daisystomper at 9:35 PM on August 5, 2017

I wish I had checked
To see if this was posted
Previously. D'oh!
posted by Room 641-A at 5:46 PM on September 1, 2017

posting interval
aperiodicity
who can hope to guess
posted by cortex at 9:05 PM on September 1, 2017

So, ironically
I'm also too late to post
The film Elements.
posted by Room 641-A at 10:29 PM on September 1, 2017