Assorted haiku

[Tharrick]

Softly, like sharp steel;
The nobleman's gleaming sword
Cuts cold morning air.


Hawatari
The razor-edged blade
passes within a half-inch
of unguarded hands


Konotabi
Time flows past swiftly;
It flows as pure water through
ice-cold winter streams


Tsume
Circling lonely, high,
purity of graceful flight
swiftly becomes death


Matsubayashi
Oppressive silence;
predators carefully stalk
'midst the evergreens


Ha
Perfect poise and edge;
Fleeting life is shown within
the hamon's steel wave


Akifukete
Leaves fall in autumn;
short life and dying beauty is
truth of existance


Momijigari
Perfection, stillness;
The leaves hang on the ageing
trees, about to fall


Hissei
The brush and the sword;
Movements so similar and
yet so different

[Niiro]

Oooh impressive haiku's Tharrick-san ^_^ well done, keep up the good work ^_^

[Starfire]

I like all of them. O.O

Nice.

[TriggerHappi:D]

Yah, really good stuff. :D
Ooh! On the second one!

Hawatari
The razor-edged blade
passes within a half-inch<----That's six syllables, my friend! :D
of unguarded hands

Sorry to bust your chops. It was all really good, though. Nice comparison. Hang on, I wanna' read it over.

[Starfire]

Yah, really good stuff. :D
Ooh! On the second one!

Hawatari
The razor-edged blade
passes within a half-inch<----That's six syllables, my friend! :D
of unguarded hands

Sorry to bust your chops. It was all really good, though. Nice comparison. Hang on, I wanna' read it over.

Nope, it's 7.

pa-ses-with-in-a-half-inch

If I read that right, of course.

[TriggerHappi:D]

Whoops! Stupid, am I! Thought it was "passes with a half inch."
I'm a fool.

[Tharrick]

Yes, yes you are.

But the 5-7-5 rule actually applies to the Japanese sound of the syllables anyway... it's not actually compulsory when you're writing in English, because of the difference between the japanese definition of syllables and the English definition.
I usually stick with the 5-7-5 for clarity, but not always