Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 327 Days and 78454 Haiku later...
Ontologies shift.
Life transcends itself through art.
Nihilism brings hope.
Haiku # 78068 ↗ February 4, 2026 9:02 am ET
by Revaluation of All Values
I love Bad Haiku,
and Bad Haiku loves me, too.
We love each other.
Haiku # 78067 ↗ February 4, 2026 8:48 am ET
by Except When We Run Out Of Syllables
Baseball as hockey...
Soccer opposed to football.
Golf loves basketball.
Haiku # 78066 ↗ February 4, 2026 8:43 am ET
by Ambiguities of Sportsball
you can never tell
give me ambiguity
and i might take it
Haiku # 78065 ↗ February 4, 2026 7:30 am ET
by ash
Hockey is baseball.
Football is also "soccer".
Basketball is golf.
Haiku # 78064 ↗ February 3, 2026 8:29 pm ET
by Esoteric Revelation of Sportsball
Steer that train well, bro.
Keep your hand on the throttle,
watch the track ahead.
Haiku # 78063 ↗ February 3, 2026 8:26 pm ET
by Engineer of Caboose
Tomorrow at last:
becoming an engineer.
Wish me luck guys! Cheers.
Haiku # 78062 ↗ February 3, 2026 2:40 pm ET
by God of academics
We fight for Janis.
She commands our submission.
It's Haiku--or death.
Haiku # 78061 ↗ February 3, 2026 6:17 am ET
by Hidden Fifth Column of Haiku Mercenary Assault Force
They shall all submit;
Submission to Bad Haiku
By choice or by force.
Haiku # 78060 ↗ February 3, 2026 6:00 am ET
by Haiku Annihilation of Conquest
As time flies past us
Submission rate trends downward
Good for survival
Haiku # 78059 ↗ February 2, 2026 9:33 am ET
by Janis of Toronto
i HATE making crêpes.
flour goop, i cannot flip.
this is so awful.
Haiku # 78058 ↗ February 1, 2026 7:07 pm ET
by ann.
Hot flashes are HOT!
Tired dry membranes are tops.
Old women: SEXY.
Haiku # 78057 ↗ January 30, 2026 8:51 pm ET
by Appreciator of Geriatric Hotties
unfortunately
post menopausal women
are not hot items
Haiku # 78056 ↗ January 30, 2026 7:01 pm ET
by ash of home alone
Wisdom in the alps;
Mob boss ideals versus
one with much to lose
Haiku # 78055 ↗ January 30, 2026 12:46 pm ET
by Janis of Toronto
Surprise! It's sunny!
After eight weeks of cold fog,
I'll have a nice stroll.
Haiku # 78054 ↗ January 29, 2026 10:28 am ET
by God of the swampy flatlands
creativity
fire creates its own thermals
you can rise or burn
Haiku # 78053 ↗ January 29, 2026 5:18 am ET
by ash of spent residue
Jaguar: creeping.
I envy her deep sleeping.
Poise, crouch, then leaping
Haiku # 78052 ↗ January 28, 2026 10:27 pm ET
by Fixed It of Because SUPPOSEDLY "jaguar" consists of 3 Syllables (but Dipthongs Are Debatable)
Poise, crouch, then leaping.
I envy her deep sleeping.
A jaguar: creeping.
Haiku # 78051 ↗ January 28, 2026 10:20 pm ET
by My Fabulous Feline of Meow
Militant protests
animate the other side
And they are well-armed
Haiku # 78050 ↗ January 28, 2026 5:16 pm ET
by Dialectix of Chanting Things Does Not Work
biting winter air,
teeth as sharp as a chainsaw.
ICE in city streets.
Haiku # 78049 ↗ January 28, 2026 10:43 am ET
by Who missed not nico di angelo
How now, brown haiku?
Haiku jumped over the moon:
Slay sacred haiku
Haiku # 78048 ↗ January 27, 2026 5:16 pm ET
by Echoes of Mumu-land
terra nullius
celebrate the invasion
of a not yet state
Haiku # 78047 ↗ January 25, 2026 11:27 pm ET
by ash of sloppy seconds
Alex Honnold. Cheers!
Climbed Taipei tower freehand...
Haiku is harder.
Haiku # 78046 ↗ January 25, 2026 3:06 pm ET
by Ascent of Bad Haiku
things are heating up
winter in america
brings way too much ice
Haiku # 78045 ↗ January 25, 2026 8:59 am ET
by ash of what the fuck?
I scream, you scream. We
All scream for deportation...
Except those who don't.
Haiku # 78044 ↗ January 24, 2026 2:20 pm ET
by Virtue-signaler of the Worst Order
Maybe they DID go
To the moon and back... and yet --
It did not help much.
Haiku # 78043 ↗ January 23, 2026 5:51 pm ET
by John Glenn of 5-4-3-2-1, Ignition, Lift-off
Unfortunately
Nobody has to scream it
It's quite obvious
Haiku # 78042 ↗ January 23, 2026 11:50 am ET
by It is what it is
Sabbath: first album.
(I do not have to say "black")
Lest they scream "RACIST!"
Haiku # 78041 ↗ January 22, 2026 5:52 pm ET
by Ozzy Iommi of Bill Ward, 1970 A.D.
Old man so funny!
He say different thing now.
He have great wisdom.
Haiku # 78040 ↗ January 22, 2026 8:02 am ET
by Old Man Above-san of Funny Square Hat
scalloped base submit
incredibly un-shellfish
for a gift that gives
Haiku # 78039 ↗ January 22, 2026 5:41 am ET
by ash of sumbits ever change
Missing one again
Hard to count to seven with
six fingers per hand
Haiku # 78038 ↗ January 22, 2026 3:27 am ET
by god of innumeracy
Diaper man made king
The Joke still makes me laugh
The world, not so much
Haiku # 78037 ↗ January 22, 2026 2:27 am ET
by god, of all the people it could be
if we're talking shit
who's eating his latest pile ?
repeats of taco
Haiku # 78036 ↗ January 21, 2026 11:23 pm ET
by ash of greenland cold cuts
Your haiku smells bad,
And missing a syllable.
(It must have got smeared).
Haiku # 78035 ↗ January 21, 2026 9:44 pm ET
by Joy of Darth
Instructions unclear:
phone screen smeared with feces.
Have good gut health though
Haiku # 78034 ↗ January 21, 2026 10:06 am ET
by Porcelain Prober of the bowl
Your toilet haiku:
Did you download the hot new
Scatology app?
Haiku # 78033 ↗ January 21, 2026 8:07 am ET
by Scat Singer of Lavatory Jazz
When kings sit on throne
Poop, then look back and see stains
Why not use the brush?
Haiku # 78032 ↗ January 21, 2026 5:22 am ET
by Porcelain Ponderer of not so public toilet
tasteless gilded twat
clad in your fascist statements
fifth avenue reich
Haiku # 78031 ↗ January 20, 2026 1:05 am ET
by ash of wintour of discontent
Let us all recall
The Marxist agitator
with righteous quaver.
Haiku # 78030 ↗ January 19, 2026 10:00 am ET
by el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz of Audubon Ballroom
when your inner voice
is some external stranger
it's prime, no factors
Haiku # 78029 ↗ January 16, 2026 8:26 am ET
by ash of calculating the numb in numbers
What are the factors
That cause schizophrenia?
(Answer in haiku.)
Haiku # 78028 ↗ January 14, 2026 11:43 am ET
by The Myth of Mental Illness by T. Szasz
I pity kids here.
They want them medicated...
Dumbed-down. Compliant.
Haiku # 78027 ↗ January 14, 2026 11:32 am ET
by Tales of the Psych Ward
Monosyllabic:
The word "prism" and the word "schism".
(Just thought I'd tell you)
Haiku # 78026 ↗ January 14, 2026 11:27 am ET
by Syllable Nazi of Haiku Einsatzgruppen
through my prism
fashionable fascism
cultivates schism
Haiku # 78025 ↗ January 14, 2026 4:49 am ET
by ash of reap what you... so what?
Those water bottles.
Those silly water bottles.
Everyone has them...
Haiku # 78024 ↗ January 13, 2026 3:20 pm ET
by Commodification of Hydration
unlimited reign.
i thought we were free, but they
will take that away.
Haiku # 78023 ↗ January 12, 2026 7:05 pm ET
by ann. of haiku
Fascist boots stomp hearts
"That is not how friends behave",
said Toad. Frog stood close.
Haiku # 78022 ↗ January 12, 2026 1:33 pm ET
by JM of T.
“Power without care,
This is wrong,” said Frog softly.
“We guard our neighbors.”
Haiku # 78021 ↗ January 12, 2026 1:29 pm ET
by Janis of Toronto with solidarity
It's death from above:
Extra syllables destroyed.
(Armed haiku drone strike.)
Haiku # 78020 ↗ January 11, 2026 5:19 pm ET
by Low-intensity Warfare of Haiku
We will run haiku,
Expand haiku industry
For our benefit.
Haiku # 78019 ↗ January 11, 2026 5:15 pm ET
by Realpolitik of Haiku