Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 78 Days and 78054 Haiku later...
patriotism
doesn't depend on display
now, though, show support

we're rainy-day proud
beats fair-weather by a mile
i love you, U.S.
Haiku # 14775 September 25, 2001 2:03 pm ET
by sheena
my co-worker says
we're rainy-day patriots
but aren't those best?

so what, we didn't
fly flags every July?
we're flying them now
Haiku # 14774 September 25, 2001 2:03 pm ET
by sheena
sheena there is a
giant moth right behind you!
you can't see it yet....
Haiku # 14773 September 25, 2001 1:59 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
also a little
round american flag pin
i like to waste cash
Haiku # 14772 September 25, 2001 1:58 pm ET
by sheena
star-stripe boxing gloves
i just couldn't resist them
but they ARE cheez-o
Haiku # 14771 September 25, 2001 1:57 pm ET
by sheena
the 'lord' gave granny
a cock and then sucked her off,
not my kind of dude (or dudette)


Haiku # 14770 September 25, 2001 1:56 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet - to moxies soul
americana
taken past reasonable
too-tacky knick-knacks
Haiku # 14769 September 25, 2001 1:55 pm ET
by sheena
the 'lord' gave granny
a cock and then sucked her off,
not my kind of dude
Haiku # 14768 September 25, 2001 1:54 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet - to moxies soul
In defensive humor
I am also glad
I am none of you
but, myself
Haiku # 14767 September 25, 2001 1:54 pm ET
by Lee
Ah, the superiority complex
of the liberal intellectual snob
often speaks to the invertibrate
Haiku # 14766 September 25, 2001 1:53 pm ET
by Lee
sea anemone
underwater hemorrhoid, just
glad not to be you

viewing you through green
limpid water, softens your
natural horror
Haiku # 14765 September 25, 2001 1:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet - to moxies soul
A Scorpio has to do what others think is a joke...
until they come away changed, and healed...
Haiku # 14764 September 25, 2001 1:51 pm ET
by Lee
Well, when stormbringer comes
will you take the mark of the beast?
or will you stand tall with the Lord?
Haiku # 14763 September 25, 2001 1:49 pm ET
by Lee
love it when mox/lee
turns himself inside out - bares
his soul - such anguish!

Haiku # 14762 September 25, 2001 1:45 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Ah, to be fourteen
standing in the morning sun
casting long shadows
Haiku # 14761 September 25, 2001 1:42 pm ET
by Betty LeBomb
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
MOXIE IS MY NAME!!! ME! IS MY GAME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
Haiku # 14760 September 25, 2001 1:36 pm ET
by MOXIE (MAXIMUS FLATULENTCE) Hail! Moxie
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
MOXIE IS MY NAME!!! ME! IS MY GAME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
Haiku # 14759 September 25, 2001 1:36 pm ET
by MOXIE (MAXIMUS FLATULENTCE) Hail! Moxie
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
MOXIE IS MY NAME!!! ME! IS MY GAME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
Haiku # 14758 September 25, 2001 1:35 pm ET
by MOXIE (MAXIMUS FLATULENTCE) Hail! Moxie
It is written, you
all are about to write the
best haikus, to come....
Haiku # 14757 September 25, 2001 1:23 pm ET
by Lee
There are better
people here, let them
write as they do

Let them be themselves
this shall cure the poison of
the World here
Haiku # 14756 September 25, 2001 1:00 pm ET
by Lee
welcome to the kingdom
of OSL, terrorism, fear...
as your methods are here now
such were his when he did what he did
Haiku # 14755 September 25, 2001 12:59 pm ET
by Lee
Guardians of the East...wind, remember,
to the west, remember
to the south, remember
to the north, stand and watch...
earth, water, fire...

Let this anger be gone, and let creation begin
Haiku # 14754 September 25, 2001 12:52 pm ET
by Lee
the bully speaks
"he tried to beat me and my friend for 100 dollars!"
a lie
ignored, he turns away into the shadows...
for what it really is, blankly hungrily looking for
his Savior
Haiku # 14753 September 25, 2001 12:48 pm ET
by Lee
I also wonder
Are you your brother's keeper?
Haiku # 14752 September 25, 2001 12:45 pm ET
by Lee
Ahem...

shallow lengths for
results that equal nothing
save, power, and headgames

and some kid tried to convince me about pirate ghosts in Frienship harbor...
Haiku # 14751 September 25, 2001 12:43 pm ET
by Lee
I was working at
some place with a guy with a turban
who threw a knife at my head

please don't joke about this stuff
Haiku # 14750 September 25, 2001 12:42 pm ET
by Lee
don't harbor any
terrorists! you'll have to go
cheney kissinger

you're charged with forty
murdered frenchies in Chile.
it's not like we care!
Haiku # 14749 September 25, 2001 12:39 pm ET
by rez-erection
Haiku # 14748 September 25, 2001 12:36 pm ET
by rez-erection
Haiku # 14747 September 25, 2001 12:36 pm ET
by rez-erection
WarNing

did you see pilot
hi-jacker in Baltimore,
call the f.i.b.

they want to know if
you saw him visiting them:
to see you're do9ne in.
Haiku # 14746 September 25, 2001 12:35 pm ET
by rez-erection
Haiku # 14744 September 25, 2001 11:27 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
Sharply cast blue sky
tints the lobes of my ears pink
and the trees orange
Haiku # 14743 September 25, 2001 11:08 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
the intellectual
critique is often just a
clever way of saying "up your shaft"
Haiku # 14742 September 25, 2001 10:30 am ET
by Lee
Haiku # 14741 September 25, 2001 10:25 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
All the tempting in
the desert and fleeing, one
devil gone, no more...
Haiku # 14740 September 25, 2001 10:20 am ET
by Lee
It seems sad to me
"The Norm Show" is now missing
from the fall line up
Haiku # 14739 September 25, 2001 9:55 am ET
by Fuzzy
Anonymous joke
see what happens when you try
too hard to impress?

(shouldn't there be a verb there instead of an
adjective like "blase"? Run outta ammos pussy
cat? where's the sting?)
Haiku # 14738 September 25, 2001 5:29 am ET
by jewel1toanonymousjoke
Cotton candy fluff
sticking to my hands like glue
fingers spreading wide
Haiku # 14737 September 25, 2001 3:50 am ET
by jewel1
Feel my clammy hands
Then rub it till it will warm
say it one more time
Haiku # 14736 September 25, 2001 3:49 am ET
by jewel1toindy
as we speak, we breathe
as we write, we think, but why
high above myself
Haiku # 14735 September 25, 2001 2:31 am ET
by indiana
take a small piece of
marinated meat, skewer
such for ash kebab

(
Haiku # 14734 September 25, 2001 2:21 am ET
by indiana
i cried a little
surprised yet again by this
new hole in my chest
Haiku # 14733 September 25, 2001 12:47 am ET
by Hollywood Bonfire
george dubya states
"you're with us or against us"
thanks for the options
Haiku # 14732 September 25, 2001 12:14 am ET
by ash
believe it or not
we still live in tall lush trees
with shells for our bras

(but we use elevators in goin up, tadaaah!)
Haiku # 14731 September 24, 2001 11:38 pm ET
by jewel1
chicken soup with bread
fireplace in a log cabin
cuddling my pillow

(hey, hi there goku, thanks!)
Haiku # 14730 September 24, 2001 11:35 pm ET
by jewel1
FloWeRs fOr JeWeL
tO pUt in YoUr WidE cLeAr VaSe
i pIckEd tHeM mYsElF
Haiku # 14729 September 24, 2001 10:34 pm ET
by goku
Bung Daddy is sad
Jingoism getting too deep
Right wing blame game starts

Haiku # 14728 September 24, 2001 10:32 pm ET
by Bung Daddy
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!
By the way, hello Moxie.
ME! ME! ME! ME! ME!

g'bye
Haiku # 14727 September 24, 2001 9:54 pm ET
by k of a whispered aside to Janis in response to her question
Louise once told me
better to shit than read books
shit is real, is this?
Haiku # 14726 September 24, 2001 9:51 pm ET
by jewel1
lilacs in full bloom
with babies breath and asters
in a wide, clear vase

(go box a fox, anonymous...whutevr)
Haiku # 14725 September 24, 2001 9:48 pm ET
by jewel1