if you want to write haiku (limerick)

[rayheinrich]

A Haiku? I said I won't do it!
"Oriental Mystique?" I see through it.
"profound" chopped up words
about trees, rocks and birds
pick any 10 words and "haiku it"

Ten words picked at random won't do;
any five makes a much better 'ku.
If you judge any form
by the strength of its norm;
I'll lay odds that you're fed at the zoo.


A master of haiku profound,
Needed only two verbs and a nound.
When asked how it's done,
he wrote fifty-one,
at a speed that was faster than sound.