Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 56 Days and 78008 Haiku later...
to be an artist
you got to be like me, just
write whatever comes
Haiku # 41583 September 7, 2008 4:12 pm ET
by bs
peace of mind is hard
to come by socially so
why bother with humans?
Haiku # 41582 September 7, 2008 1:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
artists as a lot
often are as most trying to
prove themselves to others
Haiku # 41581 September 7, 2008 1:50 pm ET
by bs
hello stranger, I
don't want to know you, or see
you, or deal with you
Haiku # 41580 September 7, 2008 1:47 pm ET
by bs
he threw the sign down
as an easy target throws
back the sign once back
Haiku # 41579 September 7, 2008 1:44 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
also, sometimes there grace
but grace is sometimes abused
for the sake of sake
Haiku # 41578 September 7, 2008 1:44 pm ET
by bs
we all suck at life
at times, so retreat into
impersonation
Haiku # 41577 September 7, 2008 1:43 pm ET
by bs
we can't live without
kurt, for he saw it as it
was, dresden and all...
Haiku # 41576 September 7, 2008 1:40 pm ET
by bs
Altered states of mind
Infinite number of planes
Edges start to blur
Haiku # 41574 September 6, 2008 10:29 pm ET
by Ian Castellucci of Maine
An ode to him
His name was Kurt Vonnegut
Can we live without?
Haiku # 41573 September 6, 2008 10:18 pm ET
by BellaLune of Renton, WA
i suck at life and
that is why i'm here to write
my stupid haikus
Haiku # 41572 September 6, 2008 5:13 pm ET
by bs
perhaps with a bit
of silence, perhaps all is
noise, transformed, divine
Haiku # 41571 September 6, 2008 2:04 pm ET
by bs
do you understand
that "they" told paul to shut up
and he kept preaching?
Haiku # 41570 September 6, 2008 1:59 pm ET
by bs of whatever the consequences
some minds are very
hyperactive, it shows through
their speech and manners
Haiku # 41569 September 6, 2008 1:57 pm ET
by bs of or lack thereof
so sustain yourselves?
in protest or vanity?
or something more worthy?
Haiku # 41568 September 6, 2008 1:56 pm ET
by bs
some made art by the
gluing of fur to a tea
cup, what was that then?
Haiku # 41567 September 6, 2008 1:54 pm ET
by bs
some discover their
voice when they discover their
audience, and speak
Haiku # 41566 September 6, 2008 1:52 pm ET
by bs
have you noticed my
anger? of course, patent flaw
we all have them, then

does it take courage
or unwavering stupidity
to keep fighting on
Haiku # 41565 September 6, 2008 1:49 pm ET
by bs
perhaps you all need
to learn a new language and
need to hear with new ears
Haiku # 41564 September 6, 2008 1:48 pm ET
by bs
is this not an age
of video news, right there
at your door, madness?
Haiku # 41563 September 6, 2008 1:46 pm ET
by bs
what is worth the
audience, impatient and
down right f-ing spoiled
Haiku # 41562 September 6, 2008 1:46 pm ET
by bs
I've often noted
that people have a hard time
seeing their own flaws
Haiku # 41561 September 6, 2008 1:45 pm ET
by bs
Please stop your haikus
Self-indulgent gibberish
Pastiche of knowledge

Haiku # 41560 September 5, 2008 3:38 pm ET
by William Nippress of It takes too long to skip to something worth reading
there is no demand
for schizophrenic magpies
seek help and move on
Haiku # 41559 September 5, 2008 2:35 am ET
by sf
that does it, then eh
pizzas for everyone, just
you wait, (u'll know it's me)
Haiku # 41558 September 4, 2008 12:37 pm ET
by bs
for william...

look in the mirror
there's your enemy now look
outside the window

there's your subject matter
Haiku # 41557 September 4, 2008 12:34 pm ET
by bs
william nippress
sounds as a wine making place
is your shiraz good?

or shall you press me
and make my blood flow
with thine feet taste thy dirt
Haiku # 41556 September 4, 2008 12:31 pm ET
by bs
this is overkill
it's said to say sour grapes
by some and move on

audiences you know
come and go as do poets
shovels dig and bury

maybe I am heaping
dirt on some corpses
who's time has come
Haiku # 41555 September 4, 2008 12:29 pm ET
by bs
sometimes it's trash
sometimes innovation
sometimes observation
Haiku # 41554 September 4, 2008 12:27 pm ET
by bs
I can't remember
the lines I desired to
set in the middle
Haiku # 41553 September 4, 2008 12:25 pm ET
by bs
sometimes the fighting
spurs brainstorms but Katrina
drowned new orleans...
Haiku # 41552 September 4, 2008 12:24 pm ET
by bs
in a hall of those
said mirrors images distort
I can't tell syllable...

shapes formless and
lovecraftian, madness
ah yeah right...

caveman on a car insurance
commercial
Haiku # 41551 September 4, 2008 12:23 pm ET
by bs
I guess lush means the
guy who sits at the bar and
asks for free drinks, huh?
Haiku # 41550 September 4, 2008 12:21 pm ET
by bs
folks fight because they
like heroin and the booze
are addictions, fold...
Haiku # 41549 September 4, 2008 12:20 pm ET
by bs
so I am and you
are enemies of self, once
that war is won then...
Haiku # 41548 September 4, 2008 12:19 pm ET
by bs
speaking, the foes of
someone else are idiots
who's worst foe is self

sit in a room and
have no one about, no folks
just you and a book

we need audience
hecklers, fans, and writers
are a bad audience
Haiku # 41547 September 4, 2008 12:19 pm ET
by bs
sodomy is a
way of also tearing ass...
but not my sticking...
Haiku # 41546 September 4, 2008 12:17 pm ET
by bs
the black soul is just
weak, republican conv. batch
smashing lib'rals...
Haiku # 41545 September 4, 2008 12:16 pm ET
by bs
when you die and have
nothing more to say who cares
they bury you down

all is left is scribbles
Haiku # 41544 September 4, 2008 12:15 pm ET
by bs
I can't write Haikus
I'm like an empty vessel
Need a Nemesis
Haiku # 41543 September 4, 2008 7:11 am ET
by William Nippress of Insult me or make me laugh
mine horrid posture
serves purpose none, erasure
blackened soul escape
Haiku # 41542 September 4, 2008 3:33 am ET
by Lush
'pon keyboard collapsed
smashed, a tortured synapse, eh...
bottled idiocy
Haiku # 41541 September 4, 2008 3:24 am ET
by Lush
submersed bathosphere
beneath the worst, tongue most shear
testicular schmear
Haiku # 41540 September 4, 2008 3:19 am ET
by Lush
follicles failing
developing monk's tonsure
emboldened whilst bald
Haiku # 41539 September 4, 2008 3:16 am ET
by Lush
novel asshole torn
thrice from several directions
no one digs bs.
Haiku # 41538 September 4, 2008 3:13 am ET
by Lush
I am wounded but
I know this is no excuse
but to get back up
Haiku # 41537 September 3, 2008 1:40 pm ET
by bs
how many times has
the world ended in the past
only to keep going
Haiku # 41536 September 3, 2008 1:23 pm ET
by bs
some Bible code stuff
more late great planet earth stuff
end of the world stuff...
Haiku # 41535 September 3, 2008 1:23 pm ET
by bs
wiser voices at
times prevail but Saul is still
doomed to consult death
Haiku # 41534 September 3, 2008 1:20 pm ET
by bs
no flagellation
don't try to please everyone
just laugh at yourself
Haiku # 41533 September 3, 2008 9:52 am ET
by ash
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