Zombie Haiku?

Has anyone seen Zombie haiku yet?

I have not. But msouliere posted one online:

Biting into heads
is much harder than it looks.
The skull is feisty.

I've been trying to write some of my own. Here's one that includes the traditional Haiku reference-points--nature and its seasons:

Chrysanthemum leaves
Fill the autumn air, ignored.
BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS! BRAINS!

:)

Anyone?

The infected poet
Wrote his last haiku, and then
Ate seventeen brains.

I'll keep going until someone joins me in this!

was quietly reading
when attacked by a zombie hoard
hit'em with books

Sultry summer air,
the smell of zombies and of
decomposition.

zombies at beachside
surrounded by books & paper.
not reading. munching.

Tidings of magpies
Shout warning at eventide
Zombie cats attack.

Moonlight flickering
on sand awash with bodies--
a zombie luau.

This caught fire on Twitter.

See http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23zombiehaiku

I added:

Some said zombies were
Only a publishing fad.
Their brains tasted good.

ChrisKubica wrote that zombie haiku was too easy, "Write me Zombie Divine Comedy." So I replied:

Vergil took me there,
but Zombie Beatrice
doesn't smell so good.

@ThatAndromeda and I got into a Latin zombie-haiku thing.

She wrote:

solum cupimus
cerebros tuos edi.
non iniusti, nos.

I replied

Ars longa, vita
brevis, sed non pro zombio.
morire volo!

But morire isn't classical, so I'm an idiot. This one was better--might even make Catullus wretch.

Zombus Catullus
scripsit "pedicabo et
cerebrum edam!"

Ha, I love the Catullus one.

Zombie perplexed.
gazing at intellectuals' grey matter.
constructed of books

passer mortuus
est meae puellae, quod
cerebrum edimus

cerebrum illud
quod videtis, hospites
cena nobis est

quem basiabis?
cui videberis bella?
eheu, zombia es

_Zoe_. You are my new hero.

I'm going to be sick with laughter.

I had to change mine - for some reason I thought the collective noun for magpies was a murmer, but it's actually a tidings. Fortunately same number of syllables.

siquis artem non
novit zombandi, legat:
ede cerebra

Heh, I'm glad you like them :). This is far too much fun.

I can't help adding one more:

cerebrum cano
quod primum a capite
in fauces venit

How off is this, Zoe?

Nous voulons cerveaux,
Mais les Zombis français ne
Sont jamais goinfres!

Simple haikus are remarkably easy to translate:

We want brains, of course,
But don't worry: French Zombies
Are never gluttons!

Cerebrum volo
Sed Zombius Gallicus
Est numquam gluto.

Is it a bad sign that I was trying to sleep and had to get up to record Latin zombie haikus?

cerebrum edo. quare
id faciam, requiris?
ego zombus sum

and the other perspective:

cerebrum zombus
edit. fieri sentio
et excrucior

It's been a while since I had to do more with French than just read it. I think zombi is masculine, so les zombis français (not capitalized)?

Bingo. Thanks.

Ha. I love it. I always though sed fieri sentio et excrucior sounded vaguely sinister.

zombe Catulle,
desinas cerebra edere
in sepulcrum eas

ille mi zombus
videtur. ille cerebrum
est. mortuus sum.

cenabis bene,
zombe Catulle, apud me
edes cerebrum

This makes me wish I had studied Latin instead of Greek! (And no, I am no longer proficient enough in the language to write ancient Greek zombie haiku. Alas.)

It's too bad; I'd love to see some Greek zombie haiku! But Greek is so much harder.

Your wish is our command. ;o)

My daughter Sehktmet (who lost her LT password due to a laptop crash) wanted to give this a shot.

Μήνιν άειδε
Θεά Σομβάων λαους
Και έδηδοκαν

Hehe, I like it!

Moon full in the pond,
Blossoms open without sound —
Old gravestone orchard

What about the classic:
Brains Brains BRAINS Brains Brains
Brains BRAINS Brains Brains BRAINS Brains BRAINS
Brains Brains Brains Brains BRAINS!

Zombam virumque
cano, qui ab altero
esuriendus.

Zombie and the man
I sing, who by the other
One will be eaten.

Hehe :)

Argh, Greek words are too long. But I'll post it anyway:

Πολλά τα δεινά
κουδέν ζομβώνου δεινό-
τερον γίγνεται

Klingon!

He' QoghIj joq gagh
Ghobe'Vaj laH taH ja'ta'
Daq chenmoH wa'wIv

Stale brains or fresh ghah
No warrior should be forced
To make such a choice

Okay, that's good.

We need Elvish now.

#35:

For great haiku
that flows like a stream
We need Brains

More Japonaiserie:

1.

I still care about
One of these: The oak, the ash,
The willow, warm brains.

2.

The cherry blossoms
Fall softly in pink showers
As I eat your brain.

En skönhet och ful
i ett stoft förenade
mumsar på hjärnor

The last day we were
Together I held her hand
And then I ate it.

(Apologies to Tom Lehrer)

Sjung nymfen en sång,
Dess hjärta ängsligt brinner;
Grillat är godast!

Pikkunälkäänsä
Kaapimassa kalloa:
Aivot oivat on.

Elvish Runes:



Elvish:

Caer si vol, Aelaer
Masti kyr thys o, Pas Jhys
Shal eisi toli

Common Tongue:

Keep your three rings, Elves
Ditto, you seven Dwarf Lords
Your brains are all mine

Εγκέφαλοι; Οχι!
Νομίζω ότι προτιμώ
σουβλάκι.

>43 Booksloth:

SOUVLAAAAAAAAKI!

Nice. Modern Greek is so much easier written than spoken. Had to look up protimo, though. Sounded like "fear" (ancient timao).

For the benefit of others, that said—not trying to get it into haiku form:

Brains, no!
I think that I prefer
Souvlaki.

It needs to be said
that this thread is amazing.
Yay! Zombie poets!

Tim's Aeneid haiku is my favorite so far, having spent a year translating large chunks of it in high school.

It's not very good, but here's my contribution in Japanese:

大脳を
食べられました
おいしそう！

the zombie will chew
through anything but he most
likes to munch on heads

A sigh in the night.
Before, a lover’s dreams, now
something that eats brains.

Cemetery trees
Drop petals, many drifted
Into yawning graves.

Summer cherries hang
Uneaten in the orchard.
No meal for zombies.