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Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 80 Days and 78057 Haiku later...
Haiku # 13688 September 15, 2001 7:00 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
Haiku # 13687 September 15, 2001 7:00 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
Haiku # 13686 September 15, 2001 6:59 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
dresden, stalingrad
manhattan, hiroshima
bad luck civilians

war, terrorism
similar apocalypse
ev'rybody bleeds
Haiku # 13685 September 15, 2001 2:46 am ET
by ash
Haiku # 13684 September 14, 2001 5:03 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Cat Stevens' "Peace Train"
sounds so naiive on this day...
that train's off its tracks
Haiku # 13683 September 14, 2001 3:49 pm ET
by scott - incidentally, Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) has a statement worth reading at http://catstevens.com/
The Beat lives again,
zoned out of mind and sight,
floating in the lake.
Haiku # 13682 September 14, 2001 2:48 pm ET
by Dr. Claw
Origin has changed
I do the math and see,
no positive points
Haiku # 13681 September 14, 2001 1:23 pm ET
by Betty LeBomb
One positive point
No commercials on TV
For the last two days
Haiku # 13680 September 14, 2001 8:20 am ET
by SuperDave
for generations
the middle east has been fucked
insanely fucked up
Haiku # 13679 September 14, 2001 6:47 am ET
by mellie
as the dust settles
consider the middle east
lives like this each day
Haiku # 13678 September 14, 2001 2:59 am ET
by ash
just a little poem
ant hill here, fonts scurrying
around, foot what foot?
Haiku # 13677 September 14, 2001 2:15 am ET
by Anonymoose
make a parking lot of the middle and claim the oil for ourselves and give AZ to Isreal.
Haiku # 13676 September 13, 2001 6:27 pm ET
by god
so apparently
either one is a racist
or a terrorist

....go back to Europe, you rednecks!
Haiku # 13675 September 13, 2001 4:27 pm ET
by scott (not a pacifist & pissed as hell...but not going to sit back and take this shit)
Winter's frost looms near
as I add one last growth ring
stretching my bark taut
Haiku # 13674 September 13, 2001 2:35 pm ET
by Betty LeBomb
"two brothers"? the two
towers? Try geo and geb -
Earth's presumptive gods.
Haiku # 13673 September 13, 2001 10:49 am ET
by Nostradamos
"ring leader" given
sanction in Afghanistan-
bring down those guilty!

terrorists were trained
in Florida! Bring down the
government of jeb!
Haiku # 13672 September 13, 2001 10:48 am ET
by flip ant
death like bait waits
in Afghanistan, circumcised
women testify.

thergood, you brought
us the undemocratic
dynasty, too bed.
Haiku # 13671 September 13, 2001 10:45 am ET
by Barbara Olsen
Reagan paid Iran
to keep hostages, since then
bedded fanatics.

now the ones that killed
black votes, to force the loser
on us: harbored them.
Haiku # 13670 September 13, 2001 10:42 am ET
by deep throat
we'll go to war, where?
half a world away? Which half's
worth saving really?

like Pearl Harbor? like
Tonkin Gulf? Get the facts straight.
Which IS as it seems?
Haiku # 13669 September 13, 2001 10:39 am ET
by flip ant
death from the skyways
come crashing in, did someone
not let it happen?

death on high, crashing
down, did someone not stop the
Oklahoma bomb?
Haiku # 13668 September 13, 2001 10:37 am ET
by McVeigh
Haiku # 13667 September 13, 2001 10:34 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
death in the market,
but don't evacuate! It
just knocked the top off.

what corporate corpse
had the arrogance to fall
under its own weight?
Haiku # 13666 September 13, 2001 10:34 am ET
by McVeigh
I am climbing through
the debris, I am wringing
my hands, I'm sobbing

I don't want to hear
why they did it, I don't care.
But to hate "towelheads",

is robbing us of
our freedom, we assist
terror in the end.
Haiku # 13665 September 13, 2001 4:20 am ET
by k_against_too_sudden_reaction of a changed America
Bankrupt persuasion
spoken justly in righteous
fallacies through words
Haiku # 13664 September 12, 2001 10:49 pm ET
by ComiCat of Jerzey

.........a horrible thing
that's beyond comprehension
........for eons to come
Haiku # 13663 September 12, 2001 10:46 pm ET
by ronin@fuckyoutooassholeidonthavetotakeyourstinkingshit
u.s. discovers
it is a dreadful feeling
to be powerless
Haiku # 13662 September 12, 2001 10:42 pm ET
by ash
all baby stabbers
justify their vile actions
to live with themselves
Haiku # 13661 September 12, 2001 10:10 pm ET
by mount madonna mama
you would stab children
rawandan residency
is too good for you
Haiku # 13660 September 12, 2001 9:54 pm ET
by mount madonna mama
scott
go live in the middle east
get the fuck out
Haiku # 13659 September 12, 2001 8:06 pm ET
by kill those fucking towel heads
when so many souls
are released in one moment
we are diminished
Haiku # 13658 September 12, 2001 7:59 pm ET
by ap
Why don't we just give
the terrorists a slap on
the wrist, they were right...
Haiku # 13657 September 12, 2001 7:58 pm ET
by This_Ain't_Allah
i gave blood today
let's not spill it just to act
we must be better

(mariachi & this_aint_allah: what did you give today except racist, homophobic bile?)
Haiku # 13656 September 12, 2001 5:06 pm ET
by scott (mosques shot out...palestinian businesses firebombed...the long, sad legacy continues...)
Considering him
I'm happy to be callous
and not a moron
Haiku # 13655 September 12, 2001 4:09 pm ET
by Melle
This Ain't Allah makes
me proud of being simply
an evil bastard
Haiku # 13654 September 12, 2001 4:05 pm ET
by Melle
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Haiku # 13652 September 12, 2001 3:29 pm ET
by scott
My Haikus are not
Tongue in cheek, kill all those pig
headed dirty fucks
Haiku # 13651 September 12, 2001 3:24 pm ET
by This_Ain't_Allah
don't rise to the bait
it's exactly what he wants
bring back Bob Marley
Haiku # 13650 September 12, 2001 3:11 pm ET
by scott (telling myself as much as you)
Dirty smelly fucks
Hate America because
we have clean bathrooms!
Haiku # 13649 September 12, 2001 3:05 pm ET
by This_Ain't_Allah
unlike other sites
we had no racist postings
at least until now
Haiku # 13648 September 12, 2001 3:05 pm ET
by scott (saddened...even tongue in cheek, there's no place for it)
the war has come home
but which war are we fighting?
shadowbox, right hook...
Haiku # 13647 September 12, 2001 3:01 pm ET
by scott
where is bad haiku?
bodily functions and ass
usurped by terror
Haiku # 13646 September 12, 2001 3:00 pm ET
by Drophammer
Burn the middle east
They don't take showers and stink
women and kids first!
Haiku # 13645 September 12, 2001 2:59 pm ET
by This_Ain't_Allah
Kill all the fucking
Diaperhead mutherfuckers
Stab their children too
Haiku # 13644 September 12, 2001 2:56 pm ET
by This_Ain't_Allah
Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took I
From the bottomless pit.
Haiku # 13643 September 12, 2001 2:43 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song
But my hand was made strong
By the 'and of the Almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Haiku # 13642 September 12, 2001 2:43 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
Haiku # 13641 September 12, 2001 2:42 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fulfil de book.
Haiku # 13640 September 12, 2001 2:42 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
'Cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
Haiku # 13639 September 12, 2001 2:41 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
Haiku # 13638 September 12, 2001 2:41 pm ET
by ComiCat of Bob Marley, Redemption Song