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Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 79 Days and 78055 Haiku later...
Plucked strings and wave spray,
wet sand between naked toes,
light moves on water.
Haiku # 43687 February 19, 2009 1:44 am ET
by snail
i'm tied by no knot
but there are ties i know not
held by homonyms
Haiku # 43686 February 18, 2009 10:19 pm ET
by ash
knotted up so tight
spaghetti is on my fork
i CAN swallow it
Haiku # 43685 February 18, 2009 1:57 am ET
by down she goes
A fork in the road
No knot can untie itself
Follow the footprints
Haiku # 43684 February 18, 2009 1:22 am ET
by rollercoaster
the road to nowhere
that metaphorical life
littered with false signs
Haiku # 43683 February 17, 2009 2:45 am ET
by ash
with nowhere to go
all signs have been run over
the detours suck too
Haiku # 43682 February 17, 2009 2:05 am ET
by jwalker
cigarette in hand
thoughts escape in veils of smoke
where words would have been
Haiku # 43681 February 17, 2009 1:17 am ET
by vince
You want too little
If you hurry we'll be late
Distances will shrink
Haiku # 43680 February 16, 2009 11:53 pm ET
by rollercoaster
I will wear short sleeves
on purpose so our arms touch
while we are dancing.
Haiku # 43679 February 16, 2009 6:13 pm ET
by snail is contact starved
YouTube video,
his folks called me sweet but still
said he couldn't come.
Haiku # 43678 February 16, 2009 4:14 pm ET
by snail may never meet him
Just how does that work?
I'm touchy feely person
Long distance can't work
Haiku # 43677 February 16, 2009 2:50 am ET
by Dreams and actuality
My escapism
Attending Tango Mango
Week of Tango bliss
Haiku # 43676 February 16, 2009 2:41 am ET
by William Nippress
mixed up thrill mystique
crazy aspiration crush
my own weird science
Haiku # 43675 February 15, 2009 2:30 pm ET
by a little of this a little of that
When push comes to shove
Desire rules the senses
Cyber space will do
Haiku # 43674 February 15, 2009 1:53 pm ET
by rollercoaster
true blood of life love
desire, lust and frenzy
her informal stash
Haiku # 43673 February 15, 2009 11:27 am ET
by agony
Although salt tastes good
Nothing can withstand the tide
Push my way upstream
Haiku # 43672 February 15, 2009 10:30 am ET
by Dreams and actuality
salt water river
sensing the complexities
imagine the thrill
Haiku # 43671 February 15, 2009 9:50 am ET
by rollercoaster
An idealistic
ethereal relationship?
Real life cannot match!
Haiku # 43670 February 15, 2009 6:10 am ET
by William Nippress of Dreams and actuality
Passionate as hell
Keeping a tender distance
Always in control
Haiku # 43669 February 15, 2009 2:48 am ET
by rollercoaster
Haiku # 43668 February 14, 2009 11:15 pm ET
by 222 of 222
I want to announce
valentine's day real swell.
I needed today
Haiku # 43667 February 14, 2009 9:50 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Symmetrical touch
William you sense the real thing
Proportions in reach
Haiku # 43666 February 14, 2009 3:45 pm ET
by rollercoaster
Thanks for the offer
Hand in hand rollercoaster
It's a nice gesture

I assume it was for me or was it metaphor?

Haiku # 43665 February 14, 2009 6:04 am ET
by William Nippress
I thought where's Lush gone?
But I see he's back, relaxed!
Not at all "uptight"!
Haiku # 43664 February 14, 2009 5:49 am ET
by Missed you of But not in this mood!
short of some magic
matter is conserved, and thrust
absent will or chance
Haiku # 43663 February 14, 2009 12:42 am ET
by Lush
all that is egress
'twas once a la mode ingress
re: laws of matter
Haiku # 43662 February 14, 2009 12:39 am ET
by Lush
the shite that doth reel
from these shite reeling fingers
'tis fertilizer
Haiku # 43661 February 14, 2009 12:35 am ET
by Lush
what syndrome defines
or circumscribes mine lather
necessary voice
Haiku # 43660 February 14, 2009 12:33 am ET
by Lush
inside own asshole
asperger's or OCD
no excuse, a launch
Haiku # 43659 February 14, 2009 12:32 am ET
by Lush
You wanted to know
If you don't like the answer
Don't ask the question
Haiku # 43658 February 13, 2009 3:37 am ET
by Name withheld
These oh so thin walls
Sounds of love making next door
Lonely hotel bed
Haiku # 43657 February 13, 2009 3:29 am ET
by Name withheld
lie and lying still
nights in endless double beds
vast empty ceilings
Haiku # 43656 February 12, 2009 11:09 pm ET
by vince
past, present, future
the tea leaves hold the answer
your hand in my hand
Haiku # 43655 February 12, 2009 10:14 pm ET
by rollercoaster
why not? Your response
is not poetry either
by your reckoning
Haiku # 43654 February 12, 2009 4:56 pm ET
by nombre
Our destiny? Life?
Only we hold our future
In our empty hand
Haiku # 43653 February 12, 2009 10:13 am ET
by William Nippress of Now. Thats profound poetry
Well at least it is
Five seven five in three lines
But poetry? No!
Haiku # 43652 February 12, 2009 10:04 am ET
by Name withheld
five beats in this line
seven beats in this line here
is this poetry?
Haiku # 43651 February 11, 2009 9:39 pm ET
by nombre
Please leave the fan on
You are now used to the smell
But others won't be
Haiku # 43650 February 11, 2009 3:07 pm ET
by chicagosparky
Resumes galore.
Staggering unemployment.
Handjob for ten bucks!
Haiku # 43649 February 11, 2009 11:46 am ET
by - mj of los angeles, ca
Resum
Haiku # 43648 February 11, 2009 11:45 am ET
by - mj of los angeles, ca
The full moon is near
The mirror magnifies the sex
The dancer is queer
Haiku # 43647 February 11, 2009 10:43 am ET
by rollercoaster
Caribbean dream
Tango on the hot boardwalk
Barbados sunshine
Haiku # 43646 February 11, 2009 4:47 am ET
by William Nippress of Summer of 2008
Your face close to mine
Deep searching each other's eyes
Lust near to explode
Haiku # 43645 February 11, 2009 4:12 am ET
by William Nippress of Dancers have more fun
OMG ru
ROFL?
TTYL!
Haiku # 43644 February 11, 2009 1:23 am ET
by Dylan of SF
Dancing by moonlight
Dancing morning noon and night
Dancing on my grave
Haiku # 43643 February 11, 2009 1:14 am ET
by rollercoaster
beauty within life
dancers take to the airwaves
love around the day
Haiku # 43642 February 10, 2009 1:17 pm ET
by hear.. it does come
zorbas and amy's
lightning mind sights of greatness
this day.. fabulous!!!!!!! XOXOXOX
Haiku # 43641 February 10, 2009 11:26 am ET
by thank you craigs list
The turtle sits still,
Resolute and observant;
Indubitable.
Haiku # 43640 February 10, 2009 2:48 am ET
by Indubitable Turtle of On a Rock
Feet on the planet
Right and left and right no wrong
To dance is to live
Haiku # 43639 February 9, 2009 10:30 pm ET
by rollercoaster
I have yet to meet
his shoulders, his feet have strength
a man who can move
Haiku # 43638 February 9, 2009 3:57 pm ET
by c est la vie and married