Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
28 Years, 62 Days and 77460 Haiku later...

Upside down bottle
hovers heavy overhead
to pull me back down
Haiku # 26033, January 30, 2003 11:33 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
I knew it was you
when skies went blue
and my flowers grew
Haiku # 26032, January 30, 2003 11:32 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
I knew it was you
when my sky teemed brilliant blue
and the flowers grew
Haiku # 26031, January 30, 2003 11:31 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
Bustling hilled broadway
interupted by dump-truck
full of bowling balls
Haiku # 26030, January 30, 2003 11:27 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
After tasting dung,
the smell of moldy bread
was but heaven sent
Haiku # 26029, January 30, 2003 11:23 am ET
by Betty LeBomb
picture the present
wrapped in white -- spring bouquets
hidden underneath
Haiku # 26028, January 30, 2003 10:04 am ET
by early Valentines r us to fave poets here
I sense a lack of
Respect for others' haiku
Which is quite foolish
Haiku # 26027, January 30, 2003 8:50 am ET
by A Student of The College of Irritating Foolish People
Bottleneck:
> > > > >
> > > > > o >
> > > > >
Haiku # 26026, January 30, 2003 7:17 am ET
by R. of PT
Progress (L-R):
> > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > >
Haiku # 26025, January 30, 2003 7:16 am ET
by R. of PT
Spied for bad reasons,
but they were caught on the spot -
be more humble now !
Haiku # 26024, January 30, 2003 6:26 am ET
by R. of PT
checked my ticket but
no 85 million bucks!
back to work i go
Haiku # 26023, January 30, 2003 5:13 am ET
by k of seriously, winning the lottery would save all my problems!
my suggestion is :
iron over brown paper
it works on carpet
Haiku # 26022, January 30, 2003 2:38 am ET
by ash
i need some advice:
how do i lift a green stain
from a hardwood floor?
Haiku # 26021, January 30, 2003 2:30 am ET
by scotch of moving, hoping to get my deposit back...the stain was from a green candle
missing my true love
vegas is so far away
yet it is too close
Haiku # 26020, January 30, 2003 12:54 am ET
by Bob Jones, Esq. of El Armpito, TX
consider the facts
what you think is obsession
is irritation
Haiku # 26019, January 29, 2003 9:11 pm ET
by ash
nick, i loved the book -
but for the movie, why not
"about a monkey"
Haiku # 26018, January 29, 2003 7:37 pm ET
by scotch of hollywould
like you, i once thought
poetry would make me rich
life's a bitter pill
Haiku # 26017, January 29, 2003 7:02 pm ET
by scotch
The winners poems are
Too long, and as such they are
Ineligible
Haiku # 26016, January 29, 2003 6:29 pm ET
by A Student of I had to cut 'About A Monkey' and then you censored it
Just read their letter:
5-9-5 dollars?
I am only a student
And in the U.K.
Government screws me
University screw me
And it will cost me...
Haiku # 26015, January 29, 2003 6:24 pm ET
by A Student of My prize is worth $200 and I have to pay three times that to get it?
I'm a team player,
of course, I'm also the sole
programmer on staff
Haiku # 26014, January 29, 2003 6:24 pm ET
by k_
"be a team player!
there isn't an i in team!"
nor "accountable"*
Haiku # 26013, January 29, 2003 5:23 pm ET
by scotch of *he thinks to himself, watching the deadline slipping away...
if you can't critique
a design til it's coded,
don't critique at all
Haiku # 26012, January 29, 2003 5:13 pm ET
by scotch of as my mother used to say
when the deadline hits
they will have to accept it
how software is made
Haiku # 26011, January 29, 2003 5:04 pm ET
by scotch of nerds r us (with apologies to boston gal, etc)
let them redesign
let them discuss endlessly
i'll do it my way
Haiku # 26010, January 29, 2003 5:03 pm ET
by scotch of (congrats, k)
my interface got
released today, it's flying
away, heading south...
Haiku # 26009, January 29, 2003 4:57 pm ET
by k_celebrating_the_monkey_off_my_back of Just obsessing over scotch's haikus
found on the printer:
my interface, redesigned...
i am a mushroom
Haiku # 26008, January 29, 2003 4:43 pm ET
by scotch of (call me a fungi)
why does everyone
obsess over my haikus?
they don't? well, why not?
Haiku # 26007, January 29, 2003 3:48 pm ET
by scotch of (neat)
Goats across the street,
in private he did meet, cuz
anything thought they'd eat.
Haiku # 26006, January 29, 2003 3:37 pm ET
by onjaysun (Nervous Goats...good name for a rock band)
A sunny Frogtown
t-shirts, shorts, Asian tourists
checking out thrift shop
Haiku # 26005, January 29, 2003 3:28 pm ET
by onjaysun (I'm at peace, he's at war)
cold produces ice
cream, eggs, sugar, vanilla
= ice cream
Haiku # 26004, January 29, 2003 12:35 pm ET
by yum!
R. produces a
constructive syllogism
Haiku # 26003, January 29, 2003 12:31 pm ET
by Garik
new swimsuit issue
National Geographic?!
"she sells sea shells"
Haiku # 26002, January 29, 2003 12:25 pm ET
by three to be exact!
trailing chimney smoke
winter nears longed completion
yesterday is lost
Haiku # 26001, January 29, 2003 11:58 am ET
by Gwen's sister
What
Haiku # 26000, January 29, 2003 11:46 am ET
by R. of PT
Confidence can be
an excuse for laziness
Haiku # 25999, January 29, 2003 11:08 am ET
by R. of PT
Feeling confident
Haiku # 25998, January 29, 2003 10:59 am ET
by R. of PT
Personal effort
Haiku # 25997, January 29, 2003 10:59 am ET
by R. of PT
hunting for their prey
two red-tailed hawks' low circle
eyes do follow ground
Haiku # 25996, January 29, 2003 10:53 am ET
by John Updike...run rabbit
Victim now of hate -
fifteen vicious Cossack knights
hunting for their prey
Haiku # 25995, January 29, 2003 10:49 am ET
by R. of PT
weeping icicles
streaming silver-wet cascade
splash upon the rocks
Haiku # 25994, January 29, 2003 10:20 am ET
by Gwenhyfar
splash upon the rocks
single malt scotch will do, thanks
thaw those winter blues
Haiku # 25993, January 29, 2003 10:18 am ET
by tho I'll wait till after noon
nice one scotch me lad
i'm quite the auteur myself
when it comes to that
Haiku # 25992, January 29, 2003 9:49 am ET
by sheena
unfortunately
my finger's create typo
but I won't obsess
Haiku # 25991, January 29, 2003 8:20 am ET
by running out for coffee
pale subnlight journeys
weary spirit passes by
searching for the spring
Haiku # 25990, January 29, 2003 8:17 am ET
by haiku r us
Obsession is there
Every time i write something
Some fool does comment
Haiku # 25989, January 29, 2003 8:14 am ET
by A Student of Did you, yourself, not just comment
seems the time is right
ash: wish that you could be mine
irresistible
Haiku # 25988, January 29, 2003 8:13 am ET
by sigh... I know that you're taken
Still is the water
Broken by a disruption
The coming of rain
Haiku # 25987, January 29, 2003 8:12 am ET
by A Student of A Haiku - The First, and probably last 'proper' haiku on this page today
long on syllables
obsession your delusion
bottom of the class
Haiku # 25986, January 29, 2003 6:37 am ET
by ash
Short on talent then?
Why does everybody obsess
Over my haikus then?
Haiku # 25985, January 29, 2003 5:25 am ET
by A Student of tired of your infantile comments
blix sticks fix with nix
war more sure than 'twas before
rhyme but not reasons
Haiku # 25984, January 29, 2003 2:04 am ET
by ash
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