in their desire
to embrace the well known and
tried and true, they balk
by black sabbath
 
			
I tend to think though
that already depressed those
creative people cry
by black sabbath
 
			
I'm sorry to hear
about your family pet
peaceful rest to him
by xoxox
 
			
Our dog is dying
Weak and bearly opens eyes
Goodby old Toto
by William Nippress
 
			
bitter haikus
plague the page
mundane in genre
by Andre of Ohio 
 
			
haiku 101
if you note the syllabus
note the syllables
by ash
 
			
as spring doth descend
coiled potential energy
dreams of kinesis
by Lush
 
			
note facility
with which i facilely note
the ease of haiku
by Lush
 
			
hirsute brutes cahoot
shoot a flute in my poop chute
i miss rockne, knute
by Lush
 
			
else irrelevant
perhaps ripe 4 your journal
but leave me alone
by Lush
 
			
The former ascribes
to the titular format
seven five seven
by Lush
 
			
your verbosity
and logorrhea belongs
elsewhere. see? easy.
by Lush
 
			
we needn't filters.
just respect for all users
bad haiku have form
by Lush
 
			
Crap in a basket!
Loquacious ass harasses.
Debate a morass.
by Lush
 
			
Useless, useless
the heavy rain
Driving into the sea
by Jack Kerouac of all over dat motherbrother 
 
			
art verus maths
the poems
lost every time
by Phil of wirral 
 
			
whats three
short lines
between friends?
by Phil of Wirral 
 
			
wisdom whispers
in the
old man's eye
by Phil of wirral 
 
			
my mistakes
the past 
untied
by Phil of Wirral 
 
			
rain drops splash river 
in a furious salute 
to turbulent skies
by elio
 
			
a tower of ice
in dry arid land, becomes
a crystal palace
by elio
 
			
silly disciples -
seeing patterns in the sand
as words carved in stone
by elio
 
			
canals murky depths
concealed by tinted glass-
flowin in the breeze
by elio
 
			
the canals water
shivers against night sky -  city comes alive
by elio
 
			
the city shivers
in the canals dark water -
which one is for me
by elio
 
			
babies make so much 
ridiculously more sense
than college let's go.
by Anonymous Poet
 
			
let's ride the wave of
indigestion until we
fall on the floor dead.
by who you wish you were
 
			
i really love you
i really hate convention
let's marry and go.  
by Anonymous Poet
 
			
I'm hogging the soap
box, I need to get down right now
many apologies all
by black sheep
 
			
our generation
found meaning in media
our mythology
by bs of this might explain all the star trek star wars crossovers 
 
			
we'll send some plows up
just send more tim hortons down
here if you would please
by black sheep
 
			
I honestly want
to move to canada well
because of real good beer
by black sheep of stupid reasons motivate some people 
 
			
Middle of March and
the collected snow
still up to the knees
by Janis
 
			
though i'm pretty flex
about the syllable count
generally
by Anonymous Poet
 
			
ya sorry black sheep
but if the free verse gets too long
it will get removed
by Anonymous Poet
 
			
haiku is meant to
distill something but some things
need to be shown, not 
by black sheep of written 
 
			
i wonder how you
people would handle things if
you went on faith, as
by black sheep of hold on... 
 
			
consider real life
though, people live in present
tense, can't see future
we are short sighted all of us
by black sheep
 
			
it's really also
quite simple, people like to hog
the god damn soap box
by black sheep
 
			
in the end the word
comes down to the site mistress
and she decides, drat
by black sheep
 
			
dusty cannon balls 
lay in the fields of time-
old man's open eyes
by elio
 
			
Tormented dogs bark
Spoiling our tranquillity
Should we neuter them?
by William Nippress of Sitting on the fence 
 
			
why read the free verse?
like dog poop  on a sidewalk
skip over that shit
by sf
 
			
it's really simple
a haiku is a haiku
or else it isn't
by ash
 
			
mindless socialists
declaring political
correctness of verse
by black sheep
 
			
I think one can take
themselves too seriously
and miss out on points
by black sheep
 
			
I think haiku should
be the way we all speak like
a game on who's line
by black sheep
 
			
in desperation
will it matter if one plays
by pharisee rules?
by black sheep
 
			
the discord of style
often meets strict guide lines
play long enough, break them
by black sheep
 
			
sometimes they rely
on a clockwork orange to
get what the want, ciao
by black sheep