A Collection of Haiku Inspired by Films: Volume One

Occasionally when watching a film, certain phrases jump out to me and as such I note them down and turn them into haiku. Here’s a selection of some I’ve written recently:

‘Goodbye Dragon Inn’

Technicolor ghosts

Remnants of an age long past

Searching for an end

‘La Belle et La Bete’

Candles extinguished

Lost souls glide through lonely halls

Love can break the curse

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’

Destructive people

Institutions built on lies

A life barely lived

‘Tropical Malady’

Love is a Clash tape

A sleep fuelled by desire

Dreaming of tigers

‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’

Conservative dreams

It’s just a jump to the left

Self liberation

‘Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me’

A tragedy looms

Cigarettes slowly dimming

Fire walk with me

‘Videodrome’

The body is free

Annexation of the mind

Long live the new flesh

‘Lady Snowblood’

Winter’s umbrella

A song of vengeance answered

Pure white, stained blood red

‘Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo’

Rebellion of youth

A chance to become something

Struck down by the pigs

‘Hana-Bi’

Existence is short

Yet, the soul is eternal

Pain hides behind joy