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

Latin phrases tossed
into haiku salad add
zest flavorings
Haiku # 46539, March 11, 2010 10:33 am ET
by classical learning curves
Latin word that means
Bought back or revisited
That word is "Redux"
Haiku # 46538, March 11, 2010 4:29 am ET
by In case you were wondering?
plastic lightsabers
flights into space, us vs the
Death Star and vader
Haiku # 46537, March 11, 2010 1:33 am ET
by mystery
sticks for rifles and
cardboard box forts voila
old western redux
Haiku # 46536, March 10, 2010 6:12 pm ET
by back in the day of Fort Apache
I hope we all get
back that love of making new
things, remembering play
Haiku # 46535, March 9, 2010 11:17 pm ET
by schmuck
childrens' art adorns
exhibit walls 'midst budding
artists proud beaming
Haiku # 46534, March 9, 2010 8:15 pm ET
by Haiku half-wit
unified against
"a common foe" when one could
just keep writing words
Haiku # 46533, March 9, 2010 11:54 am ET
by bs
the danger is of
course thinking that a person
does not change but stays
Haiku # 46532, March 9, 2010 11:53 am ET
by bs
drink quietly the
murderous baboon paces
with bad intentions
Haiku # 46531, March 9, 2010 10:28 am ET
by marlin perkins
haiku water hole
attracts all gods' creatures from
benign to troubled breeds
Haiku # 46530, March 9, 2010 10:22 am ET
by marlin perkins of wild kingdom
Oh Hell. Black Sheep's back
Reams of self pity and insults
Prepare to skip past.
Haiku # 46529, March 9, 2010 6:38 am ET
by I may leave for a few Months.
I will see this place
as the place I express my
dark side in total

frustration when I
began years ago on a high
of spiritual grace
Haiku # 46528, March 9, 2010 1:28 am ET
by black sheep
some have contempt for
my thoughts and I want to beat
them in the head for

their censoring snobbish
narrow minded little minds
their liberal push outs
Haiku # 46527, March 9, 2010 1:26 am ET
by black sheep
who cares who will care
the years have come and gone and
some can fuck themselves
Haiku # 46526, March 9, 2010 1:24 am ET
by black sheep
can you help but think:
"how can one contemplate all?"
yet, before the fall
Haiku # 46525, March 8, 2010 10:52 pm ET
by dwigt of Denmark
tender buds peeking
through an icy glaze seeking
solace from above
Haiku # 46524, March 8, 2010 8:27 am ET
by Haiku half-wit
spirits lifted by
degrees as equinox looms
on the horizon
Haiku # 46523, March 8, 2010 8:21 am ET
by Haiku half-wit
now he understood
why recorders were banned from
the lecture center
Haiku # 46522, March 7, 2010 8:41 am ET
by caveat gibberish
frumpish professor's
meandering discourse like
he's speaking in tongues
Haiku # 46521, March 7, 2010 8:38 am ET
by translator please!
let there be love and
hate like the heads or tails that
flip and fall like leaves
Haiku # 46520, March 6, 2010 3:58 am ET
by wretch weaver
Better to have loved.
No matter the cost or pain.
Far better than not.
Haiku # 46519, March 5, 2010 3:29 pm ET
by Lonliness is Much Worse
life is connection
and disconnection but in
unity find peace
Haiku # 46518, March 5, 2010 2:54 pm ET
by Haiku half-wit
gratitude sprouts from
seeds sown by heartfelt
sharing and knowing
Haiku # 46517, March 5, 2010 2:52 pm ET
by walking the path together
wake at four am
And get to bed at Midnight
for those five long years

Until i collapsed and had a stroke from Exhaustion.
Haiku # 46516, March 5, 2010 12:14 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Nothing can I know.
nursed my wife for five long years
Early Dementia

She was 42 when it started.
But life still goes on.
the Birds still sing, the sun shines
So endure we must
Haiku # 46515, March 5, 2010 12:10 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
tetter-tottering
on point of when it's time for
ye olde nursing home
Haiku # 46514, March 5, 2010 12:07 pm ET
by heart-breaker decision
in throes of elder
care/dementia platitudes
don't ease the burden
Haiku # 46513, March 5, 2010 12:01 pm ET
by grinding out pragmatic issues
Death is not the end
Nor life the sole existence
Eternity calls.

Nothing disappears
Just evolves to something else
Like rebirth of Stars


Haiku # 46512, March 5, 2010 4:12 am ET
by William Nippress
an old Eskimo
knows when it is time to go
just go with the floe
Haiku # 46511, March 4, 2010 2:31 pm ET
by Haiku half-wit of dying w/ dignity in Nome, AK
kids of air traffic
controller cleared take-offs...what's
next kids run nuke plant?
Haiku # 46510, March 4, 2010 12:33 pm ET
by common sense just took off of JFK
Enron CEO
wishes retrial over
words.."honest service"
Haiku # 46509, March 4, 2010 11:44 am ET
by balls the size of WYOMING
China's dwarf theme park
a sign the apocalypses'
just around the bend
Haiku # 46508, March 4, 2010 11:38 am ET
by dwarf ballet doing Swan Lake of gone too far
Brakes needed bleeding.
Tried to find help pumping it.
Bought the "One Man" kit.
Haiku # 46507, March 4, 2010 12:11 am ET
by 5.99 at Auto Zone of It Worked!
Leader's toothy grin.
Promise salvation from want.
Fox in the hen house.
Haiku # 46506, March 3, 2010 12:03 pm ET
by Both Parties of Liars
ephemeral love
counterweight to Keatsian
ode to love etern'
Haiku # 46505, March 3, 2010 8:45 am ET
by Haiku half-wit
where once abashed tears
fed love's lost raging rill here
sere riverbed lies
Haiku # 46504, March 3, 2010 8:42 am ET
by Haiku half-wit
genius work Vince
Stands out like a bright beacon
amid the dull dross
Haiku # 46503, March 3, 2010 2:57 am ET
by William Nippress
by any other name
One-handed Watusi a
solo job well done
Haiku # 46502, March 2, 2010 9:44 pm ET
by Prizzum Jizzum
No sex for the night?
try sex with someone you love
Five knuckle-shuffle
Haiku # 46501, March 2, 2010 9:19 pm ET
by J of L
Life mirrors loo roll
Only when it is ending
You value it's length
Haiku # 46500, March 2, 2010 9:17 pm ET
by J of L
no sex for the night
we sleep by dying embers
and trade them for dreams
Haiku # 46499, March 2, 2010 9:17 pm ET
by vince
Now, tis time to give
Birth to my nascent bolus
got the turtles head
Haiku # 46498, March 2, 2010 9:13 pm ET
by J of L
Intellectual
Pretensions are not enough
Need angst and old cords
Haiku # 46497, March 2, 2010 9:10 pm ET
by J of L
No magic escape
The only way out is through
Time to emit poo
Haiku # 46496, March 2, 2010 9:07 pm ET
by J of L
Persistent, subtle
A dissociative fugue
Plus I need to poop
Haiku # 46495, March 2, 2010 9:04 pm ET
by J of L
Removed and replaced.
Operation Completed.
Riding smoothly now.
Haiku # 46494, March 2, 2010 6:44 pm ET
by Fresh Rotors and Calipers!
retirees bussed
to Chilean beach sadly
ALL swept out to sea
Haiku # 46493, March 2, 2010 1:44 pm ET
by tsunami blues redux of U neverknow
All the parts in hand.
Put the puzzle together.
Always leftovers.
Haiku # 46492, March 2, 2010 12:56 pm ET
by I Wonder Where This Was Supposed To Go
like tourists playing
in the surf not seeing the
tsunami coming
Haiku # 46491, March 2, 2010 10:16 am ET
by health care tsunami disaster
Boner is missing
Mike Seaver's sidekick, adrift
Find peace, anon.
Haiku # 46490, March 2, 2010 2:07 am ET
by Lush
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