Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 75 Days and 78047 Haiku later...
Modifiers suck
Makes for clumsy jumbly prose
Must be crisp and clean
Haiku # 27103 March 15, 2003 3:53 pm ET
by sexually frustrated
Peasant
Haiku # 27102 March 15, 2003 3:51 pm ET
by William Nippress
Oh toilet scrub brush
Let the Lord's song be with thee
Wash it all away.
Haiku # 27101 March 15, 2003 3:51 pm ET
by sexually frustrated
Greasy icy rocks
Boasting dirty oceans crash
Earths waste putrefies
Haiku # 27100 March 15, 2003 3:42 pm ET
by William Nippress
The problem I see here
Bad haikus trying to be good
They fail miserably.
Haiku # 27099 March 15, 2003 3:41 pm ET
by sexually frustrated
Solitary path
A songbird shatters stillness
Lame Buda stumbles
Haiku # 27098 March 15, 2003 3:25 pm ET
by William Nippress
Deliverymen smirks
Bridegrooms supplicate disturbed
Caught with his pants down
Haiku # 27097 March 15, 2003 3:14 pm ET
by William Nippress
Infinite number
Of monkeys with infinite
Number typewriters
.
Was said of Shakespeare
Tempting, but my stuffs poor crap
No Shakespeare am I
Haiku # 27096 March 15, 2003 3:10 pm ET
by William Nippress
Best not touch my beer
Or my sausages or I'll
Get CCTV
Haiku # 27095 March 15, 2003 2:38 pm ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
I came home to cook
As I have much work to do
But all! All my pans!!
Haiku # 27094 March 15, 2003 2:37 pm ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
The bloody cleaners
First they move my stuff around
And now it's not there
Haiku # 27093 March 15, 2003 2:36 pm ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
Infinite number
Of monkeys with infinite
Number computers
That is what I think
Nippress has working for him
Oh his haiku farm
Haiku # 27092 March 27, 2003 2:28 pm ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
Flashing coal dark eyes
Lips of strawberry murmurs
Loves hot desires
Haiku # 27091 March 19, 2003 4:09 am ET
by William Nippress
High mountain rescue
In case you didn
Haiku # 27090 March 19, 2003 12:27 am ET
by William Nippress
Phantom gatekeeper
Gloating snowy carnivore
Norfolk
Haiku # 27089 March 18, 2003 6:13 pm ET
by William Nippress
Names to strike terror
Ascent imagination
Shrieking devils quake
Haiku # 27088 March 18, 2003 4:51 pm ET
by William Nippress
yikes nippleless
he's going down for the count
and many others
Haiku # 27087 March 15, 2003 6:55 pm ET
by ap
Norfolk
Haiku # 27086 March 15, 2003 11:00 am ET
by William Nippress
Mountains flouting death
Icy meandering wind
Roaring unbroken
Haiku # 27085 March 15, 2003 11:00 am ET
by William Nippress
Faintly impatient
Feathers floating aimlessly
Gloomy storm drain laughs
Haiku # 27084 March 15, 2003 10:32 am ET
by William Nippress
Sharp barren gray peaks
Call Norfolk mountain rescue
Lofty climbers lost

Haiku # 27083 March 15, 2003 10:16 am ET
by William Nippress
Don
Haiku # 27082 March 15, 2003 9:47 am ET
by William Nippress
Apologies all
I saw the spelling too late
But now know there
Haiku # 27081 March 15, 2003 9:32 am ET
by William Nippress
Fish with a shotgun
Comes out to get its revenge
Goes on a rampage
Haiku # 27080 March 15, 2003 2:23 am ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
the lad drophammer
skids along same passages
shitty description
Haiku # 27079 March 14, 2003 9:37 pm ET
by mellie
I miss bung daddy
sometimes I really miss him
not very often
Haiku # 27078 March 14, 2003 9:28 pm ET
by mellie
death is forever
no talk of chocolate please
until after lent
Haiku # 27077 March 14, 2003 9:22 pm ET
by mellie
take a hint please will
observe the reset button
use it more often
Haiku # 27076 March 14, 2003 7:47 pm ET
by ash
goddamnit nippress
let me spell it out for you
GIVE OTHERS A CHANCE
Haiku # 27075 March 14, 2003 7:10 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
i remember love
distant grayscale reflections
gone and all but lost
Haiku # 27074 March 14, 2003 3:36 pm ET
by The Count of Montecristo
the warm egg salad
looks different on the way out
more green, less salad
Haiku # 27073 March 14, 2003 3:29 pm ET
by Drophammer of Akkadia
there are other faiths
with symbols for forever
the cross is of death
Haiku # 27072 March 14, 2003 3:28 pm ET
by Drophammer of Akkadia
mung launching clench hole
spray splatter chunky drippings
puddle on the floor
Haiku # 27071 March 14, 2003 3:27 pm ET
by Drophammer of Akkadia
I shot a fish with a shotgun
There are pieces every where
Fondue fish pieces
Haiku # 27070 March 14, 2003 1:38 pm ET
by Richard Whiz-Watson of Springfield, IL
A chocolate cross for Easter
No other thought is so horrid
Eating the symbol of Eternity
Haiku # 27069 March 14, 2003 1:37 pm ET
by Steven P. Reents of Springfield, Illinois
Shoot the hand that bleeds
It changes your soul at a price
Killing has mercies
Haiku # 27068 March 14, 2003 1:35 pm ET
by Steven P. Reents of Springfield, Illinois
Jesus was holding
the little atheist girl
or just Barry Gibb?
Haiku # 27067 March 14, 2003 12:41 pm ET
by onjayson (another co-worker's faith-based email)
"solder go to war"
fuses metal together
back in the toolbox
Haiku # 27066 March 14, 2003 12:04 pm ET
by even in the desert, spelling and grammar matter
Nippress, remember:
quality not quantity,
trite does not make right
Haiku # 27065 March 14, 2003 12:01 pm ET
by for god's sake
Drums tugging the heart
Camouflaged weapons armed
Solder go to war
Haiku # 27064 March 14, 2003 10:49 am ET
by William Nippress
Rain sodden army
Railing against unfair life
Officers not wet
Haiku # 27063 March 14, 2003 9:59 am ET
by William Nippress
Old house rough-hewn
Dried door stands fast, no entry
Gravestone set proudly
Haiku # 27062 March 14, 2003 9:54 am ET
by William Nippress
Rider less kingdoms
Frustrated unrest ferments
Heart panics feebly
Haiku # 27061 March 14, 2003 9:51 am ET
by William Nippress
Buda wisely said
What we refused
Remains with sender
Haiku # 27060 March 14, 2003 9:45 am ET
by William Nippress
Startled cows leap up
At the sight of a monkey
Playing the banjo
Haiku # 27059 March 14, 2003 8:47 am ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
Worry not, Nippress
I am only annoyed by
The foolishly named
Haiku # 27058 March 14, 2003 8:46 am ET
by A Student of Artificial insemination via the ear canal
Sports football fan
Raucously impermanent
Support winner only
Haiku # 27057 March 14, 2003 8:35 am ET
by William Nippress
Weep so humbly
Lost all your humanity
City citizen
Haiku # 27056 March 14, 2003 8:31 am ET
by William Nippress
With a wailing eye
Uncaring is way of life
Loves lost to mankind
Haiku # 27055 March 14, 2003 8:28 am ET
by William Nippress
Strangers lost his way
Resist dazed countenance
Unfriendly city
Haiku # 27054 March 14, 2003 8:24 am ET
by William Nippress