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

car ran out of oil
stopped at the QUICK LUBE and they
ordered more from Bush
Haiku # 26038, January 30, 2003 5:56 pm ET
by k
i've tried everything
except looking at my toes
ah!!!! THERE I AM!
Haiku # 26037, January 30, 2003 5:51 pm ET
by k
ambiguity?
all poetry should have it
a necessity!
Haiku # 26036, January 30, 2003 3:59 pm ET
by one man's treasure and all that
people think haiku
designed to satisfy them
they are very wrong

thus the peotry
analyzed subjectively
is ambiguous
Haiku # 26035, January 30, 2003 3:34 pm ET
by [sic]soma
friend spent a lotto
dollar and won same, she's now
my new consultant
Haiku # 26034, January 30, 2003 11:48 am ET
by onjaysun (got to be better than my 401k)
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
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