Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
27 Years, 313 Days and 77281 Haiku later...

Buddhist thinking and
activism not mutually
exclusive concepts
Haiku # 46380, February 23, 2010 10:55 am ET
by cry out injustices though they are part of US
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
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