Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
27 Years, 353 Days and 77338 Haiku later...

pretensions though make
tense spirits, tense minds and the
snake oil shows ride on
Haiku # 49044, August 23, 2012 8:57 am ET
by bhs
i measured my anus
and proclaimed a bloody lie
with this, i leave you
Haiku # 49043, August 23, 2012 3:38 am ET
by Lush
blast the unworthy
who would forestall festivals
i dance without blame
Haiku # 49042, August 23, 2012 3:35 am ET
by Lush
a tent opened wide
replete with clowns and zealots
carnival of all
Haiku # 49041, August 23, 2012 3:32 am ET
by Lush
courting the joyous
seeking will without restraint
let us all flourish
Haiku # 49040, August 23, 2012 3:30 am ET
by Lush
a bumbling dumbass
stumbling unharnessed, alas
harmless, the morass
Haiku # 49039, August 23, 2012 3:28 am ET
by Lush
in this time of how
shall it be defined, wars, stress
hunger games, foreclosed?
Haiku # 49038, August 22, 2012 10:51 pm ET
by bhs
A doll is for play
To be treasured everyday
A friend come what may
Haiku # 49037, August 22, 2012 1:18 pm ET
by Shirley Smothers
don't feel pathetic
just as easily as that
i laugh at myself
Haiku # 49036, August 21, 2012 6:26 am ET
by ash
introspection rules
the reasons for our being
are not your doing
Haiku # 49035, August 21, 2012 6:14 am ET
by ash
perhaps I have my
use for you after all as
filters for some thoughts
Haiku # 49034, August 21, 2012 1:39 am ET
by bhs
so what do you of
great mind offer besides
ennui and critique?

so that of course means more
thomas merton references...
Haiku # 49033, August 21, 2012 1:38 am ET
by bhs
concatenation
an ineluctable chain
there is no refrain
Haiku # 49032, August 20, 2012 11:54 pm ET
by Lush
where is the jungle
when occidental meets east
weakened hemispheres
Haiku # 49031, August 20, 2012 11:50 pm ET
by Lush
retain the idle
fathom rhythms archaic
abandon pretense
Haiku # 49030, August 20, 2012 11:45 pm ET
by Lush
no more merton refs
he co-opted the worst of
both the east and west
Haiku # 49029, August 20, 2012 11:41 pm ET
by Lush
I take it no one
here read thomas merton
the wisdom of the crowd

is the end of humanity
Haiku # 49028, August 20, 2012 1:03 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
a suicide jumps
to the streets, and they take cell
pictures of the event
Haiku # 49027, August 20, 2012 12:57 pm ET
by bhs
what is lost to the
hustle and bustle when one
is already dead

then death does not so
matter, zombies walk, shop, eat
such living dead worlds
Haiku # 49026, August 20, 2012 12:56 pm ET
by bhs
depends where you are
city boys, where is the noise
the quiet consumes

an hourly darkness
can you take the silence for
I abide in it
Haiku # 49025, August 20, 2012 12:54 pm ET
by bhs
Life is for the quick
Otherwise you might end up,
Squished on the sidewalk.
Haiku # 49024, August 20, 2012 12:51 pm ET
by mundane
life is deceptive
you think it could last a while
and then suddenly...
Haiku # 49023, August 20, 2012 6:27 am ET
by ash
life is too short to
worry anymore about
fill in the blank here
Haiku # 49022, August 19, 2012 1:15 pm ET
by bhs
there's more important
things going on than my irks
or chicken fucking
Haiku # 49021, August 19, 2012 2:18 am ET
by bhs
Man f*cks a chicken.
Click on this here link below.
Cock-a-doodle-doo.
Haiku # 49020, August 18, 2012 4:59 pm ET
by Chicken Fucker of A Farm
and so circular
the cycle keeps going till
my cycle ends but

oba dee, oba da
with or without me life goes on
earth spins, people vacation
Haiku # 49019, August 17, 2012 1:54 pm ET
by bhs
it just is and it's
up to me to do something
or nothing at all
Haiku # 49018, August 17, 2012 1:53 pm ET
by bhs
want to escape to
dreams and drams but real life does
not go away
Haiku # 49017, August 17, 2012 1:53 pm ET
by bhs
I get mad and then
wonder at the value of
getting up at all
Haiku # 49016, August 17, 2012 1:52 pm ET
by bhs
there's art and then there's
anti art, the cycle keeps
going and I lose count
Haiku # 49015, August 17, 2012 1:51 pm ET
by bhs
slipshod premises
swallow prime residences
torsion collapses
Haiku # 49014, August 16, 2012 11:33 pm ET
by Lush
on the other hand
a wrist shackled prosthesis
embedded in bum
Haiku # 49013, August 16, 2012 11:27 pm ET
by Lush
trivium beneath
ashen crust of spoiled relics
triumph of notions
Haiku # 49012, August 16, 2012 11:26 pm ET
by Lush
array of products
modes of thought delivery
inequivalence
Haiku # 49011, August 16, 2012 11:22 pm ET
by Lush
you're missing the point
the details are important
even to artists

what inspires us ?
the difference is content
versus discontent
Haiku # 49010, August 16, 2012 9:19 pm ET
by ash
Urgent loin longings
In the night, in the snowbank
Amber authograph
Haiku # 49009, August 16, 2012 6:44 pm ET
by windbag of NC
and sadly this leads
people to give up on being
creative at all
Haiku # 49008, August 16, 2012 2:06 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
politics for example
tends to have conspiracies
and battles over trifles
Haiku # 49007, August 16, 2012 2:05 pm ET
by bhs
middle management
has very much the same
qualities as such who

worry on these trifles
Haiku # 49006, August 16, 2012 11:23 am ET
by bhs
i'm down for the count
concerning that last haiku
add a syllable
Haiku # 49005, August 16, 2012 8:17 am ET
by ash
take half a dozen
and any twelve step program
add your own cliff
Haiku # 49004, August 16, 2012 8:10 am ET
by ash
if you are a cunt
convinced you know all you need
the cliff is two steps...
Haiku # 49003, August 16, 2012 1:25 am ET
by bhs
antique virtues and
antique vices, outhouse is
thataway ye gents
Haiku # 49002, August 16, 2012 1:23 am ET
by bhs
isn't that the magic
of the internet, two folks
I don't know wrote words
Haiku # 49001, August 16, 2012 1:19 am ET
by bhs
diving into life
we make our personal splash
pissing in the wind
Haiku # 49000, August 15, 2012 7:44 am ET
by ash
elegies for none
as we gambol unbridled
'gainst prevailing winds
Haiku # 48999, August 14, 2012 3:49 pm ET
by Lush
rivulets of wine
strains of the gullywasher
of my yester eve

Haiku # 48998, August 14, 2012 3:44 pm ET
by Lush
i sincerely doubt
the constipated poet
can pass forth wisdom
Haiku # 48997, August 14, 2012 7:57 am ET
by ash
there's a point when one
doesn't give a shit and then
does all their best work
Haiku # 48996, August 14, 2012 7:04 am ET
by bhs
the esteemed haiku
shall remain unscathed henceforth
by reckless digits
Haiku # 48995, August 14, 2012 12:38 am ET
by Lush
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