Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 74 Days and 78047 Haiku later...
fuck off moxie
Haiku # 23487 November 22, 2002 4:44 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
hmm to live at home, 29
mcydees and another job
controversial, outspoken, stupid
lacking confidence, mocking all
living and dying in, small showers
Haiku # 23486 November 22, 2002 4:05 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
She's off to work in
Fiji, will miss her, might start
hitting the kava
Haiku # 23485 November 22, 2002 4:00 pm ET
by onjaysun
The shocking truth of any matter
is it seems all our great writers
are dead and we are all
poetic re-runs, but Gen X must die
at some point too...
Haiku # 23484 November 22, 2002 3:56 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Little cannoli
came back through my door, hugged her
Squeezed the filling out
Haiku # 23483 November 22, 2002 3:55 pm ET
by onjaysun
working at Reny's
large warehouse
many problems
many advantages
no one solution
no one simple way
Haiku # 23482 November 22, 2002 3:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
ash moxie mellie
I really enjoy a good one
a menage a trois



so ash is the top
and mellie's on the bottom
in the top three list



moxie's number two
a piggie in the middle
and who has the cock ?
Haiku # 23481 November 22, 2002 3:37 pm ET
by mellie
i'm never wrong ash
for I am k, come with me!
ascend with me now!
Haiku # 23480 November 22, 2002 3:25 pm ET
by k_of_the_violet_flame_and_other_wacky_outer_space_cults of I AM!
k is wrong again,
Anonymous Poet is
the first, with the most
Haiku # 23479 November 22, 2002 12:44 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
You can pick your friends
You can even pick your nose
Don't pick your friend's nose
Haiku # 23478 November 22, 2002 12:29 pm ET
by Mac of Loserville
damn, the preceding
should have been attributed
to the lone maestro
Haiku # 23477 November 22, 2002 10:05 am ET
by maestro
i do not aspire
to dampen the ashen mound
a daunting prospect
Haiku # 23476 November 22, 2002 10:00 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
The banality
Of this whole endeavour keeps
me nicely sedate
Haiku # 23475 November 22, 2002 9:49 am ET
by Janis of Toronto
no inspiration
absence of profundity
i embrace this site
Haiku # 23474 November 22, 2002 8:38 am ET
by maestro
k may think it's bad
sure i write lots of haiku
but then, who's counting ?
Haiku # 23473 November 22, 2002 8:08 am ET
by ash
looming before you
largely unavoidable
the rest of your life
Haiku # 23472 November 22, 2002 8:02 am ET
by ash
new uncertainties
honed by old anxieties
rake me like a knife
Haiku # 23471 November 22, 2002 7:59 am ET
by ash
i should get a life
but i write haiku instead.....
oh, this IS my life
Haiku # 23470 November 22, 2002 2:36 am ET
by ash
yes, i remember
8/20/2001
although not fondly
Haiku # 23469 November 22, 2002 12:40 am ET
by scotch (thx for the stats & the preview fix!)
i hold 12th place in
stats for badhaiku poets
who post the most here


I'm not sure, but it
can't be a good thing, at least
I'm not ash in 1st
Haiku # 23468 November 21, 2002 10:15 pm ET
by k
where is everyone?
badhaiku can be lonely
when avoiding work.....
Haiku # 23467 November 21, 2002 10:14 pm ET
by k
listening to tom
waits while coding is just
the ticket I need.....
Haiku # 23466 November 21, 2002 9:42 pm ET
by k of Blood Money
blah!
Haiku # 23465 November 21, 2002 8:36 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Jackfruit



My body is like the jackfruit on the branch:
my skin is coarse, my meat is thick.


Kind sir, if you love me, pierce me with your stick.
Caress me and sap will slicken your hands.
Haiku # 23464 November 21, 2002 8:30 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Autumn Landscape


Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves.
Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene:


the lush, dark canopies of the gnarled trees,
the long river, sliding smooth and white.


I lift my wine flask, drunk with rivers and hills.
My backpack, breathing moonlight, sags with poems.



Look, and love everyone.
Whoever sees this landscape is stunned.
Haiku # 23463 November 21, 2002 8:27 pm ET
by Ho Xuan Huong
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
Haiku # 23462 November 21, 2002 8:24 pm ET
by Roethke of a greenhouse in Michigan

The most important act of a
poem is to reach further than the page, so that we are aware of
another aspect of the art. This will introduce us to its
spiritual essence. This essence has no limits.
What we are setting out to do is to delimit the work of art, so that it
appears to have no beginning and no end, so that it
overruns the boundaries of the poem on the page.
All of the arts share this need for delimiting.


Coleridge said that a poem must be both obscure and clear.
This is what we search for in our poem,
this beautiful balance between the hidden and the open.


What is this poem that appears to be opening within our hands?

Haiku # 23461 November 21, 2002 7:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
"how deep is the sea?
no one really knows for sure..."
-from "Fishing with John"
Haiku # 23460 November 21, 2002 7:49 pm ET
by k_avoiding_coding_the_last_part_of_this_app_through_ANY_distraction
How far is Far Rock?
How far away is away?
How vast is the map?
Haiku # 23459 November 21, 2002 7:40 pm ET
by inquiring minds want to know
Terminal Lake



Although they know no other waters
and have no creation myths,
the fish don't like it here: no way out,
no river to swim upstream or down.
Terminal Lake squats there,
its belly filled by springs, oh rain
and ice and snow. It's deep,
Terminal Lake, and no one's gone to the bottom
and come back up.
All's blind down there, and cold.
From above, it's a huge black coin,
it's as if the real lake is drained
and this lake is the drain: gaping, language-
less, suck- and sinkhole.


-Thomas Lux
Haiku # 23458 November 21, 2002 7:27 pm ET
by k_who_will_not_post_a_haiku_right_now of Underwater
actually, make that
urban SNOB instead of slob
suits me better
Haiku # 23457 November 21, 2002 3:27 pm ET
by urban snob
crack head asks us how
to get to Far Rockaway
look at a map, jerk
Haiku # 23456 November 21, 2002 3:26 pm ET
by urban slob
ask a floating oak
for sound advice and it says
"No, I'm a split pear"!
Haiku # 23455 November 21, 2002 2:52 pm ET
by word salad
already wrapped it
but it has a poem glued
inside with some fish.....

a dream box is where
one puts things having to do
with interiors
Haiku # 23454 November 21, 2002 2:47 pm ET
by k_to_inquiring
What glory is this?
Morning wood is the hardest
I have a big cock
Haiku # 23453 November 21, 2002 2:17 pm ET
by X-wing Ace of Space
through a puff of breath
I see a fir tree tremble
in the wintry light
Haiku # 23452 November 21, 2002 1:56 pm ET
by Gwenhyfar
would love to see that
a dream box filled such as yours
can we see a pic?
Haiku # 23451 November 21, 2002 1:03 pm ET
by inquiring minds want to know
A billion lives lost,
whole worlds destroyed, led up to
this epic battle
of evil vs.
goodness: Onjaysun fights the
About Blank Pop-Up!
Haiku # 23450 November 21, 2002 12:28 pm ET
by onjaysun (warrior/prince/fry cook)
can't catch my subie
355 crank HP
the turbo just screeeems
Haiku # 23449 November 21, 2002 7:02 am ET
by ap
made a "dream box" for
my mother's birthday. Inside...
water and poems
Haiku # 23448 November 21, 2002 4:55 am ET
by k of can't stop working on art projects...
g'day moxie maaate
gladly I admit it too
others more fucked up
Haiku # 23447 November 20, 2002 5:09 pm ET
by mellie
well, I have been fucked
but haven't fucked off
so, I still post sometimes
Haiku # 23446 November 20, 2002 4:53 pm ET
by Mox
"Jesus Loves Me More"
is the sticker appearing
on Scotch's auto.....
Haiku # 23445 November 20, 2002 4:24 pm ET
by k
ha! being *shrink-wrapped*
and packaged is hard enough,
but then no money?
Haiku # 23444 November 20, 2002 4:23 pm ET
by k
you dreamt you were small?
i've no idea what that means
better ask a shrink
Haiku # 23443 November 20, 2002 4:14 pm ET
by scotch to k (cool site)
"do you love that guy?"
i'm pointing to a bumper
jesus rolls his eyes
Haiku # 23442 November 20, 2002 4:00 pm ET
by scotch
unhurt but shaken,
jesus creates a speed trap
to snare subarus
Haiku # 23441 November 20, 2002 3:57 pm ET
by scotch (swears, not swearing, that should have been...)
i dreamt i was small
enough to be shipped fedex
but not enough cash
Haiku # 23440 November 20, 2002 3:38 pm ET
by k_of_bizarre_dreams of Slow Wave will make a cartoon of your dreams even
jesus doesn't use
his goddamned turn signal and
is run off the road
Haiku # 23439 November 20, 2002 3:34 pm ET
by k_against_people_who_drift_from_lane_to_lane_without_signaling
jesus swerves to miss
a drifting cell phone yakker,
swearing softly: "elvis!"
Haiku # 23438 November 20, 2002 3:30 pm ET
by scotch