Pearl Jam Haiku Challenge

SD533

Try to remember
All that's sacred comes from youth
Believing in truth

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Got nothing to do
Scream and cry out for some more
Who is that call for

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Shouting out for Who
Can't say it belongs to you
Wasn't meant for you

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There's a common rule
You can't say you hate something
And then do it too

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Storm the room to find
Nothing but a big fuck you
All there is for you

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Table's set for two
Not for a crowd or a few
There's no place for you

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A dedication
It becomes naively true
When it's Not For You

SD533

I won't disappear
Just need and want someone there
Helps keep my mind clear

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It gets so absurd
Static shoots through the atttic
Angels can be heard

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Not trying No Way
I can't make a difference
At least not today

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Called in my angel
To see what she had to say
There still is No Way

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No Way attitudes
Ocean of my platitudes
Water's dark and gray

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Stopped and I won't try
Called an angel asked her why
Alone where I lie

SD533

No reason to live
He's got wings look at him now
Has so much to give

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Wants us to know why
Strange spots are seen in the sky
It's him up on high

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Delivered his wings
Now he can unlock the chains
Imprisoning things

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Floats down to us here
Stabbed by small men who don't care
He still wants to share

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When he's seen up there
It's not for him to ask why
He's Given To Fly

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Love that is received
While it is given away
It still can be saved

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After he is gone
People will look to the sky
Where he once would fly

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We all live and die
Some will be Given To Fly
Nobody knows why

SD533

He's unkept inside
Thoughts are too big for his size
He's off on his ride

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He hasn't been back
See his picture on the wrack
Moving past too fast

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He's home and laughing
Catching up on the flipside
On break from his ride

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The strain creeps right in
He's surrounded by bullshit
Off He Goes again

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He's the same old friend
Don't know where the trip takes him
Lets nobody in

SD533

I'm a fool you see
To want to say I need you
Just want you to breathe

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I Just Breathe and see
My wanting and needing you
Makes a fool of me

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I just need to breathe
Free of all my wants and needs
A fool just for me

SD533

I'm peeled wide open
I've still got my inner sense
Glimpse my innocence

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Up so high I shake
I can touch the sky I scrape
Golden boughs won't break

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Hear what the leaves said
Newspaper crowbar can't go
Upside of my head

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Up here in my nest
Takes one breath to fill my chest
I can get some rest

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In My Tree I see
Sidewalk trashscape down below
Nothing there to know

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In My Tree I see
Friends that have forgotten me
No one there to know

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At home in blue sky
Way up in the air on high
So light in my nest

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Knowlege In My Tree
It's been growing up with me
It will set me free

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In My Tree a nest
Only place where I can rest
Sleeping innocence

SD533

He's a Dissident
Railing at the presidents
And at their servants

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Nursed him for a night
She made contact with the fight
An aid in his flight

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Helped him hide away
Not so sure that he should stay
Not sure what to say

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Wanted him to stay
Forked him over to the state
Now he's far away

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She glides on today
When she couldn't hold she'd fold
Just gave him away

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Folding's not an art
Sowed the seeds of her dissent
Within her own heart

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Turned herself around
At home she's so far away
It's all just a waste

SD533

I need and want you
If you don't know that by now
Then I've been a fool

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Just Breathe and you'll know
How much that I still need you
And how I want you

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I'll always want you
Won't be a day without me
There to let you know

SD533

Nothing As It Seems
Saving up a sunny day
Nothing to believe

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Nothing like a poem
Whisper through a magaphone
A voice all alone

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Little that he needs
There is little that he sees
Nothing As It Seems

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Don't need methadone
Occupation's overthrown
Bittersweet it's home

DangDang

SD533 wrote:

I can touch the sky I scrape

What an excellent line!

DangDang

skyeriverwinter wrote:

SD533 wrote:

Please stand by the shore
I will be back there once more
The sea will rise me

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Dreaming of your touch
The currents shift towards you
Oceans hold so much

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Waves roll through my head
Are you still holding the thread
Ringed by what we said

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No reason to stray
Oceans won't take me away
I'll be there today

I really like this one...

I agree, that is a good batch.

SD533

The song from which that batch was hacked and paraphrased - Oceans - has such good lyrics that it was easy to find good haikus in and between the lines. Turning Oceans into that batch of haikus has given me a deeper and hopefully better understanding of that song. Even though I have probably listened to Oceans hundreds of times before, I don't think that I paid any attention to what it was really about until I started reshaping it into a haiku.

SD533

Wash away the past
Burn away and shed the mask
Let the spirit pass

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Lives opened and trashed
Holding on it's dying fast
It's the Last Exit

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For better or worse
Won't even know what's been left
Swearing under breath

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Four days is not long
While the ocean forgets it
During Last Exit

SD533

You're reflected now
You've gone wherever we go
Stars are made of stones

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Now you've disappeared
Only your light can be here
Can't take that away

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Can't save up on life
Got to spend it while it's there
Space grows between us

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Wasted days alone
Separated by Light Years
You shine on my stone

SD533

Full moon at high tide
An ocean filled with crying
Knows what will be mine

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Feeling left behind
Sorrow grows when it's denied
Then it becomes mine

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Fools will stand in line
Faith and hope won't buy more time
Only own my mind

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I know that I'll die
Life leaves as each breath goes by
All that's left is mine

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Meaning left behind
Only know that I Am Mine
That is my own mind

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Feelings left behind
Only I can know my mind
And all that is mine

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The significance
It differs behind the eyes
Where there are no lies

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Lost behind the eyes
Innocents broken with lies
There's no need to hide

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Innocents broken
Lost one time between the lines
Nowhere left to hide

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I love reading this
look forward to more

SD533

Seeing hell's not right
Walked the line with you that night
Wish it was real life

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I've got memories
An empty cup lost at sea
What life's got on me

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Lie alone and wait
Empty shell's easy to crack
Questions I can't ask

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Fight back in my mind
I Got Shit you'll never know
So much it don't show

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Love is just a dream
I Got Id that's not ego
Nothing real to show

SD533

The consequences
Sent here for you to transcend
That's not Who You Are

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What you think and feel
Even if it isn't real
That is Who You Are

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You are Who You Are
Change leaves a mark on your soul
Won't change Who You Are

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Each piece has a part
Be Who You Are make your mark
Almost time to leave

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Winds of circumstance
Happenstance drives off the track
Words won't get you back

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Need not condescend
Don't bow before fucked up men
That you can't defend

SD533

I'm a fool you see
No one knows this more than me
I come clean and new

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Gonna See My Friend
I'm thick and have too much thin
Make it go away

SD533

The winded sailor
Loses sight of his savior
Devil's his jailer

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Tremors turned to quake
Smallest oceans still get waves
In a drowning wake

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Blame it all on fate
Faith in love and Tremor Christ
Know that it's divine

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Drifting by the storm
It takes time but not a life
Time to take the dive

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Devil's words are worst
Angels try to get there first
Wait for signs not lies