Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 55 Days and 78007 Haiku later...
Seriously! There
Is something soothing about
Traversing Hyrule
Haiku # 78007 January 6, 2026 2:27 pm ET
by Janis of In the Depths
Tears Of the Kingdom
Tracking my progress in verse
Found the rubber pants
Haiku # 78006 January 5, 2026 8:11 pm ET
by Janis of Horon Lagoon Cave
Some days, you eat bear
One day, the bear may eat you.
And now I'm hungry
Haiku # 78005 January 5, 2026 5:19 pm ET
by Stop it already! of Not Hungary
the warmth bathes my skin,
sweet relief, but the winds bring
bitter cold again.
Haiku # 78004 January 5, 2026 5:07 pm ET
by awful poet.
Dozed off on the couch
Walked off a cliff in Hyrule
Lost many a heart
Haiku # 78003 January 4, 2026 4:26 pm ET
by Janis of Lurelin Village
Trump vomits Zion
Then invades Venezuela:
"America Last."
Haiku # 78002 January 4, 2026 4:12 pm ET
by Ben Shapiro's Rabbi
the empire strikes south
one dictator is removed
but there's always more
Haiku # 78001 January 4, 2026 2:09 am ET
by ash of taco death star
such a pedigree
seventy eight thousand 'ku
and we ain't done yet
Haiku # 78000 January 3, 2026 5:28 am ET
by ash
Happy new year Ash.
Regardless of Patel's cash,
Haiku is the fash.
Haiku # 77999 January 2, 2026 11:58 pm ET
by Fascist Factions of Fashion
Happy new year J.
Regardless of what fools say,
Haiku is the way.
Haiku # 77998 January 2, 2026 11:28 pm ET
by Wayfarer's Fairway of Metaphysical Golf
Twennytwennysicks
Will be much worse than last year.
So stay positive.
Haiku # 77997 January 2, 2026 11:25 pm ET
by Mr. Positive Battery Terminal of Assault & Battery Powered
Fame did not arrive.
The verses stayed where they were.
This too is a path.
Haiku # 77996 January 2, 2026 10:32 pm ET
by Janis of the liminal space I know and love.
Big data drains us
Heat-death of the social contact
No one looks away
Haiku # 77995 January 2, 2026 10:19 pm ET
by Janis of A cynical mindset
Big Tech masks its grin.
Numbers carve us into parts.
The rule, not the glitch.
Haiku # 77994 January 2, 2026 10:17 pm ET
by Janis of Fuck the tech bros and their ilk
Restless crickets flee.
Hyrule burns in the distance
Sure, I’ll catch one more.
Haiku # 77993 January 2, 2026 10:12 pm ET
by Janis of Toronto
New features added
This haiku exists to test
Whether they exist
Haiku # 77992 January 2, 2026 2:50 pm ET
by Janis of Toronto
time certainly flies
quarter of this century
and lots of the last
Haiku # 77991 January 1, 2026 5:24 am ET
by ash
Dear Somalia:
We wish you happy new year!
(With or without clits...)
Haiku # 77990 December 31, 2025 7:33 pm ET
by Minnesota of Mogadishu Inc.
Good to have YOU near.
I hope and pray we can have
A happy you near...
Haiku # 77989 December 31, 2025 7:26 pm ET
by Mrs. Fork of Spooner, Idaho
Tom Bosley's pen is
Far mightier than the sword
(and the S-word too.)
Haiku # 77988 December 31, 2025 7:14 pm ET
by Significance of Sibilance Sells Stupid Seduction So Subtly
Lonely bad haiku
No one writes poems for you
Tom Bosley's pen is
Haiku # 77987 December 30, 2025 12:01 pm ET
by Stop it already!
We must stamp it out!
We've GOT to destroy Christmas
(for the good of earth.)
Haiku # 77986 December 25, 2025 7:22 am ET
by Scowling Villain of Saturnalia
Deport the Jesus
Not born in America
Lacks proper papers
Haiku # 77985 December 23, 2025 11:46 am ET
by ICE ICE Baby
Miss White (Ellen G:)
See my lovely Christmas tree!
And now for some tea...
Haiku # 77984 December 23, 2025 8:58 am ET
by Adventist Stimulant of Imminent Return of Christ
Heraclitus says
All life is in constant flux...
But then there's Logos.
Haiku # 77983 December 21, 2025 12:57 pm ET
by Philosophy is the Opiate of the Unemployed
Looking from distance,
That valley seems uncanny
I do not like it
Haiku # 77982 December 20, 2025 9:21 pm ET
by Homo Erectus
The zinjanthropoids
Are running wild among us
But no one stops them.
Haiku # 77981 December 19, 2025 6:56 pm ET
by Cro-magnon Man of Neanderthal Valley
Hey-- come on, let's go.
Let's all write some haiku now.
Let's all groove as one.
Haiku # 77980 December 19, 2025 5:55 pm ET
by Maurice White of Earth, Wind and Fire
I took the pub test,
And passed with flying colors.
My score: seven pints.
Haiku # 77979 December 19, 2025 8:25 am ET
by Dylan Thomas of Bob Zimmerman
tangerine doofus
a student of history
who fails the pub test
Haiku # 77978 December 18, 2025 2:12 am ET
by ash of local assessment
Pro-propaganda.
Contra-contrarianism...
Anti-antichrist!
Haiku # 77977 December 17, 2025 3:43 pm ET
by Platform Principles of Platform Shoes
YOU are forbidden.
(Forbidden to forbid me.)
Ha ha! I got on...
Haiku # 77976 December 15, 2025 7:13 pm ET
by The Wiles of the Adversary
Bad Haiku, oh YES!
Oh yes yes yes yes yes yes.
By which I mean "no"...
Haiku # 77975 December 13, 2025 6:22 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Do you Fentanyl?
Many who do Fentanyl
Are no longer here.
Haiku # 77974 December 13, 2025 5:47 pm ET
by Western Front of the New Opium Wars
Do you Fentanyl?
Many who do Fentanyl
Are no longer here.
Haiku # 77973 December 13, 2025 5:46 pm ET
by Western Front of the New Opium Wars
Do you use street drugs?
If so, then you are stupid
Buy from internet
Haiku # 77972 December 13, 2025 10:09 am ET
by El Chapsticko
Got to say some more.
Got to get my haiku ON!
(Like a dirty sock.)
Haiku # 77971 December 12, 2025 9:50 pm ET
by Sock It To Me of Haiku Sock Puppet
Recalling Bosley...
I believe he had a cock.
But it was Grandma's.
Haiku # 77970 December 12, 2025 9:45 pm ET
by Compiler of Grandpa's Memories
Christ was just joking.
He will not ever return.
So do what thou wilt.
Haiku # 77969 December 12, 2025 9:38 pm ET
by The Whole of the Law
Try to forbid me
From this website, Bad Haiku?
You can eat Basho.
Haiku # 77968 December 12, 2025 9:31 pm ET
by Failed Attempts of Technocracy
The lovable ones
Are very easy to love.
Enemies, less so.
Haiku # 77967 December 12, 2025 9:28 pm ET
by Noticer of Sermon on the Mount
You are the sun in
the Páramo, lighting up the Frailejones
Haiku # 77966 December 12, 2025 8:44 pm ET
by John Edward Myers of Colombia
you might well be right
who am i to disagree ?
it'll be a hit
Haiku # 77965 December 12, 2025 7:11 am ET
by ash of charted territory
The world will soon die
So it can live forever
In endless nightmare
Haiku # 77964 December 10, 2025 6:37 pm ET
by Sweet Dreams are Made of This
forty-one orbits
and you're still vivid and real
and i still love you
Haiku # 77963 December 6, 2025 5:42 am ET
by ash of ghost writing
Cock-a-doodle-MOO!
Blackity blackity white.
Oinky oink oink oink.
Haiku # 77962 December 5, 2025 5:23 pm ET
by Polarization of the Barnyard
Talking to the dead,
Shallow graves become deep tombs.
Necropolises.
Haiku # 77961 December 1, 2025 4:56 pm ET
by Conversations of Sepulchral Significance
calling the bad out
just pulls more old grievances
from their shallow graves
Haiku # 77960 December 1, 2025 5:03 am ET
by ash
I jus gots to say:
Y'all whack-ass crazy as sheet...
I'm like: Donald TRUMP ?
Haiku # 77959 November 28, 2025 10:00 pm ET
by Laquisha J. of The Hood
Maybe this poem
Was lost in the sauce we spilled
That never got refilled
Haiku # 77957 November 27, 2025 8:01 am ET
by Dog of Dog place
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