There's a scene I love in Umberto Eco's Foucault's pendulum: the Milanese editor, Jacopo Belbo, and his friend Casaubon are weaving plots from wacky manuscripts. They decide to feed random lines into an archaic word processor, print the results and pour over them. They are struck by the repetitions and patterns, eventually leading to their concocting even weirder plots.

When I write haikus, sometimes they come easy. Most of the time, though, I have to fiddle with them: search new words, take care of the number of syllables, adjust the imagery and so on. I write them on notepad, and sometimes I don't erase the lines. At times I have trouble deciding which version to post.

So here are some haikus in raw form.

Warning for 2 suggestive lines.


( Drarry... )




( Jakeward )

Title:  Summer potions explosions
Author:herumtreiber 
Characters: Harry/Draco
Genre: Limerick
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Suggestion
Disclaimer:  JK Rowling owns them, not me. This is for mischief's sake, not profit.
Notes: For poetic_hp 's July prompt: wave.



( Harry sat... )

Title: Diamonds of hope and change
Author: herumtreiber
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Poetry, Diamante
Characters: Draco/Harry
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and the rest belong to JK Rowling, I only play with them.
Notes: Response to poetic_hp 's prompt #37: change



( One-carat diamond of change )

Title: Recollections past and present
Author: herumtreiber
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Poetry, ballad
Characters: Harry/Draco
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and the rest belong to JK Rowling, I only play with them.
Notes: Response to poetic_hp 's July prompt: lazy summer days

 

( Looking into the black... )

Title: My reveries
Author: herumtreiber 
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Harry/Draco
Genre: Poetry
Words: 149
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or related characters. Nor do I make any money from this writing


( In my dreams... )


crossposted to poetic_hp , snitches_n_smut , harrydraco