Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 82 Days and 78059 Haiku later...
Moving forward now
helping where best I can help
Not stopping to cry
Haiku # 46379 February 23, 2010 10:54 am ET
by Rich and Helping of Condemning All Rich Silly
onset of a three day
snowfall relax into the
shoveling ahead
Haiku # 46378 February 23, 2010 10:51 am ET
by Haiku half-wit
There will always be
pain, want and inequity
it's a part of us
Haiku # 46377 February 23, 2010 10:49 am ET
by Extremism Blinds Itself of Calm Mature Adult
bottom line?? it's a
case of INTERBEING v.
EACH ONE FOR HIMSELF
Haiku # 46376 February 23, 2010 10:27 am ET
by it is every man for himself
case of plausible
deniability the
baby killed himself
Haiku # 46375 February 23, 2010 10:20 am ET
by how could you let the child starve to death
mind shuttered to the
cries of the starving baby
why won't it just DIE!!
Haiku # 46374 February 23, 2010 10:17 am ET
by just shut the f**k up
like a Bill Evan's
jazz riff variations of
the same melody
Haiku # 46373 February 23, 2010 10:12 am ET
by nice to "hear" the takes
Masking my heart ache
Dancing among the onions
My eyes full of tears
Haiku # 46372 February 23, 2010 9:56 am ET
by William Nippress of Thats the one!
My eyes full of tears
Dancing among the onions
Masking emotions
Haiku # 46371 February 23, 2010 9:49 am ET
by William Nippress of Getting closer
My eyes veiled by tears
Dancing among the Onions
Concealing the truth
Haiku # 46370 February 23, 2010 6:25 am ET
by William Nippress of Work in progress
My cries veiled by tears
Dancing among the Onions
Conceals my crushed Heart
Haiku # 46369 February 23, 2010 6:20 am ET
by William Nippress of Flows better?
My cries veiled by tears
Dancing among the onions
Hide my broken Heart
Haiku # 46368 February 23, 2010 5:35 am ET
by William nippress
from where i'm standing,
hidden by a smaller pine--
one large sycamore.

the parallax:
both physical and meta-
keep that in mind.
Haiku # 46367 February 22, 2010 10:06 pm ET
by liza of perception deception
Cry babies drain me.
Swirling whirlpool down, down, down.
Extreme unbalance.
Haiku # 46366 February 22, 2010 9:30 pm ET
by Seek Help
the paradigm of
maturity holds court on
high with feet of clay
Haiku # 46365 February 22, 2010 4:46 pm ET
by his over-inflated sense of selfness
read carefully and
don't miss the forest through the
trees and you'll get it
Haiku # 46364 February 22, 2010 4:43 pm ET
by easy to judge with broad strokes
CRIMES are justified
in derivative land by
SOME not ALL get it?!
Haiku # 46363 February 22, 2010 4:41 pm ET
by let us give Madoff a bonus, eh?!
Steel eel mad me ill
I got ill on the Steel eel
ill on the Steel eel
Haiku # 46362 February 22, 2010 4:11 pm ET
by Shirley Smothers
The haiku poet
doth protest too much, me thinks.
Not all rich are bad!
Haiku # 46361 February 22, 2010 3:37 pm ET
by All The Mental Agility of a Small Soap Dish of Deep Breath, Grow Up
not broad strokes of rage
but witnessing amoral
acts of greed /contempt
Haiku # 46360 February 22, 2010 3:28 pm ET
by all is justified in the land of derivatives
focused anger to
those whose comfort have been gained
at other's expense
Haiku # 46359 February 22, 2010 3:20 pm ET
by sociopathic manipulations
Man is good and bad
don't blindly condemn them all
hate is a poison
Haiku # 46358 February 22, 2010 12:45 pm ET
by Blind Hate of Those More Comfortable
no problem can be
solved from the same CONSCIOUSNESS
that created it
Haiku # 46357 February 22, 2010 8:21 am ET
by history repeats itself over and over and over
Pinochet dragged the
intelligentsia to
soccer stadium

poof they vanished no
magic just bullets for "Los
Desapardos"**

** the missing
Haiku # 46356 February 22, 2010 8:17 am ET
by a case of natural selection?
Khmer Rouge wiped out
a generation of MINDS
and regressed tenfold
Haiku # 46355 February 22, 2010 8:10 am ET
by was this natural selection?
law of the jungle..
natural selection does
brains conquer brawn
Haiku # 46354 February 22, 2010 8:07 am ET
by sometimes yes sometimes no
parsing out the "ISMS"
is like separating dog
from cat shit still's shit
Haiku # 46353 February 22, 2010 8:04 am ET
by stinky skanky ideologies
if we tore it all
down and started over the
same thing would happen
Haiku # 46352 February 22, 2010 8:00 am ET
by its the same old song
Marie Antoinette
did she really say "Let them
eat cake." what a bitch!!
Haiku # 46351 February 22, 2010 7:58 am ET
by storm the Bastille
here the primal sounds
that play out in the halls of
politics each day
Haiku # 46350 February 22, 2010 7:55 am ET
by they just use fancier words
Jealousy ain't good.
It's negative energy.
Get over it, dog.
Haiku # 46349 February 22, 2010 5:20 am ET
by Get your own bone.
Waa waa waa waa waa,
Waa double waa waa waa waa!
Waaaaaaa wa wa wa wa...
Haiku # 46348 February 22, 2010 5:03 am ET
by Waaaaa! of Boo Effing Hoo
No one shouts louder
work hard you lazy people
My father made it!!!

it's your fault you failed!
Than one who inherits! wealth.
You know what i mean?

I met a man who succedded to great welth! claimed all his own work! His company went bust. Did he claim that was him too? Did he hell!!! It was everybody ell's fault but his.
Haiku # 46347 February 22, 2010 4:26 am ET
by Lets see you do ity then
kleptomaniac
unsatisfactorily
rehabilitates
Haiku # 46346 February 22, 2010 3:23 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
Those who have had luck
look down their noses, lip curled
assume it was them.
Haiku # 46345 February 22, 2010 12:46 am ET
by Just Lucky You Were Born Here, Not There! of Location, Location, Location!
Excuses flying.
Often young children have them.
Mostly, they all stink.
Haiku # 46344 February 22, 2010 12:36 am ET
by Forward, No Excuses of Hard Work, No Cry-Babies
every time I
focus on POSITIVES my
dark side emerges
Haiku # 46343 February 21, 2010 10:30 pm ET
by glimmers of light in the darkness
All of your focus
on things being so damn hard
sure plan for failure
Haiku # 46342 February 21, 2010 9:05 pm ET
by Focus on The Positive
"no problem can be
solved from the same consciousness
that created it"
Haiku # 46341 February 21, 2010 8:48 pm ET
by Albert Einstein
sit next to you
find a reason to look away;
I can't.
Haiku # 46340 February 21, 2010 5:22 pm ET
by Cecinestpasunhaiku
maintaining BALANCE
when life's playing field is so
tilted is damn hard
Haiku # 46339 February 21, 2010 4:55 pm ET
by been down so long it all looks up to me
TRUISM that fear
sucks the lives out of us so
learn to ride life's wave
Haiku # 46338 February 21, 2010 3:41 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
civilizations
rise & fall golden ages
entropy follows
Haiku # 46337 February 21, 2010 3:30 pm ET
by birth death rebirth
Go confidently.
Be not naive, but still trust.
Fear can freeze movement.
Haiku # 46336 February 21, 2010 3:23 pm ET
by Balance, Not Fear
Humans have been scared,
predicting the end is near,
from the beginning.
Haiku # 46335 February 21, 2010 3:18 pm ET
by Be Not Afraid
The Apocalypse
is soon upon us now let
the real games begin
Haiku # 46334 February 20, 2010 3:10 pm ET
by Survival Olympics of The Road
corporate thugs rob
with impunity and get
bonuses not jail
Haiku # 46333 February 20, 2010 3:07 pm ET
by rising white collar crime of amoral USA
strong prey on the weak
in natural selection's
name that's just peachy
Haiku # 46332 February 20, 2010 3:05 pm ET
by caveat emptor grandma/pa
Darwinism strands used
to bolster Capitalism
Communism Facism
Haiku # 46331 February 20, 2010 3:01 pm ET
by the bloody dialectic
Hitler believed in
Natural Selection where
the strongest* survive

* - superior Aryan breed/race
Haiku # 46330 February 20, 2010 2:57 pm ET
by who is your role model?