Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
27 Years, 188 Days and 77102 Haiku later...

man is competitive
on a Satanic level
this website is a prime example
Haiku # 23504, November 23, 2002 5:43 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Man would like to set
himself up as God and will
cry no fair on Judgement Day
Haiku # 23503, November 23, 2002 5:41 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
ah, ash, I believe
you speak the competition
of MAN who would set himself
up as God. Hell is full of
such people...Hitler for example
Haiku # 23502, November 23, 2002 5:40 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
indulge no fear, ash
over shoulder none encroach
do spew the haiku
Haiku # 23501, November 23, 2002 5:31 pm ET
by maestro
was just wondering
gwenhyfar and boston gal
written by same hand?
Haiku # 23500, November 23, 2002 2:43 pm ET
by inquiring minds think so...
a break in the clouds
the wind and the lone heron
together take flight
Haiku # 23499, November 23, 2002 1:17 pm ET
by Gwenhyfar
in the old orchard
the whiteness of snow flowers
unexpected blooms
Haiku # 23498, November 23, 2002 1:16 pm ET
by Boston gal
As I walk outside
I can see my every breath
just twenty three degrees

as we wait for snow
so the kids can all go out
to make their snowmen

Haiku # 23497, November 22, 2002 11:42 pm ET
by some internet chick
funny about hell
it can be just like heaven
to somebody else


you make your own world
a matter of conscious choice
not divine planning
Haiku # 23496, November 22, 2002 11:09 pm ET
by ash
sexuality
and fundamental dogma
make strange bedfellows
Haiku # 23495, November 22, 2002 11:04 pm ET
by ash
Good Evening to all
I see we are all showing
love for each other

Please dont start on me
I just hope everyone is
doing good tonite
Haiku # 23494, November 22, 2002 10:26 pm ET
by some internet chick
Everything is a statement
some statements are simple and short "fuck off Moxie" for example.

other people feel the need to express

deeper ideas and let go of their hatreds...

in other words do you want to spend an eternity in hell with moxie or accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior?
Haiku # 23493, November 22, 2002 9:02 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
to ap, a warning
if I'm bisexual, is it wise
to tell me to fuck off?

what if it is in your direction?
Haiku # 23492, November 22, 2002 8:59 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
If a person is
not saved, then some believe
eternal damnation

some believe the saved
to be living a life now
eternally damned living
Haiku # 23491, November 22, 2002 8:56 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
the chicks on the side
of the streets, arrayed like meat
do they desire flight...
Haiku # 23490, November 22, 2002 8:55 pm ET
by Moxie
Jeremy, being a Scorpio
needs to become a born again
so he can, be more creative

and, myself, needs to become
less hypocritical so, I can
shake off stuff as "of the world"
Haiku # 23489, November 22, 2002 8:54 pm ET
by Moxie
wingless pigeon chicks
splayed on the walkway. I step
around them, no grief.
Haiku # 23488, November 22, 2002 5:49 pm ET
by k
fuck off moxie
Haiku # 23487, November 22, 2002 4:44 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
hmm to live at home, 29
mcydees and another job
controversial, outspoken, stupid
lacking confidence, mocking all
living and dying in, small showers
Haiku # 23486, November 22, 2002 4:05 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
She's off to work in
Fiji, will miss her, might start
hitting the kava
Haiku # 23485, November 22, 2002 4:00 pm ET
by onjaysun
The shocking truth of any matter
is it seems all our great writers
are dead and we are all
poetic re-runs, but Gen X must die
at some point too...
Haiku # 23484, November 22, 2002 3:56 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Little cannoli
came back through my door, hugged her
Squeezed the filling out
Haiku # 23483, November 22, 2002 3:55 pm ET
by onjaysun
working at Reny's
large warehouse
many problems
many advantages
no one solution
no one simple way
Haiku # 23482, November 22, 2002 3:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
ash moxie mellie
I really enjoy a good one
a menage a trois



so ash is the top
and mellie's on the bottom
in the top three list



moxie's number two
a piggie in the middle
and who has the cock ?
Haiku # 23481, November 22, 2002 3:37 pm ET
by mellie
i'm never wrong ash
for I am k, come with me!
ascend with me now!
Haiku # 23480, November 22, 2002 3:25 pm ET
by k_of_the_violet_flame_and_other_wacky_outer_space_cults of I AM!
k is wrong again,
Anonymous Poet is
the first, with the most
Haiku # 23479, November 22, 2002 12:44 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
You can pick your friends
You can even pick your nose
Don't pick your friend's nose
Haiku # 23478, November 22, 2002 12:29 pm ET
by Mac of Loserville
damn, the preceding
should have been attributed
to the lone maestro
Haiku # 23477, November 22, 2002 10:05 am ET
by maestro
i do not aspire
to dampen the ashen mound
a daunting prospect
Haiku # 23476, November 22, 2002 10:00 am ET
by Anonymous Poet
The banality
Of this whole endeavour keeps
me nicely sedate
Haiku # 23475, November 22, 2002 9:49 am ET
by Janis of Toronto
no inspiration
absence of profundity
i embrace this site
Haiku # 23474, November 22, 2002 8:38 am ET
by maestro
k may think it's bad
sure i write lots of haiku
but then, who's counting ?
Haiku # 23473, November 22, 2002 8:08 am ET
by ash
looming before you
largely unavoidable
the rest of your life
Haiku # 23472, November 22, 2002 8:02 am ET
by ash
new uncertainties
honed by old anxieties
rake me like a knife
Haiku # 23471, November 22, 2002 7:59 am ET
by ash
i should get a life
but i write haiku instead.....
oh, this IS my life
Haiku # 23470, November 22, 2002 2:36 am ET
by ash
yes, i remember
8/20/2001
although not fondly
Haiku # 23469, November 22, 2002 12:40 am ET
by scotch (thx for the stats & the preview fix!)
i hold 12th place in
stats for badhaiku poets
who post the most here


I'm not sure, but it
can't be a good thing, at least
I'm not ash in 1st
Haiku # 23468, November 21, 2002 10:15 pm ET
by k
where is everyone?
badhaiku can be lonely
when avoiding work.....
Haiku # 23467, November 21, 2002 10:14 pm ET
by k
listening to tom
waits while coding is just
the ticket I need.....
Haiku # 23466, November 21, 2002 9:42 pm ET
by k of Blood Money
blah!
Haiku # 23465, November 21, 2002 8:36 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Jackfruit



My body is like the jackfruit on the branch:
my skin is coarse, my meat is thick.


Kind sir, if you love me, pierce me with your stick.
Caress me and sap will slicken your hands.
Haiku # 23464, November 21, 2002 8:30 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
Autumn Landscape


Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves.
Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene:


the lush, dark canopies of the gnarled trees,
the long river, sliding smooth and white.


I lift my wine flask, drunk with rivers and hills.
My backpack, breathing moonlight, sags with poems.



Look, and love everyone.
Whoever sees this landscape is stunned.
Haiku # 23463, November 21, 2002 8:27 pm ET
by Ho Xuan Huong
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
Haiku # 23462, November 21, 2002 8:24 pm ET
by Roethke of a greenhouse in Michigan

The most important act of a
poem is to reach further than the page, so that we are aware of
another aspect of the art. This will introduce us to its
spiritual essence. This essence has no limits.
What we are setting out to do is to delimit the work of art, so that it
appears to have no beginning and no end, so that it
overruns the boundaries of the poem on the page.
All of the arts share this need for delimiting.


Coleridge said that a poem must be both obscure and clear.
This is what we search for in our poem,
this beautiful balance between the hidden and the open.


What is this poem that appears to be opening within our hands?

Haiku # 23461, November 21, 2002 7:52 pm ET
by Anonymous Poet
"how deep is the sea?
no one really knows for sure..."
-from "Fishing with John"
Haiku # 23460, November 21, 2002 7:49 pm ET
by k_avoiding_coding_the_last_part_of_this_app_through_ANY_distraction
How far is Far Rock?
How far away is away?
How vast is the map?
Haiku # 23459, November 21, 2002 7:40 pm ET
by inquiring minds want to know
Terminal Lake



Although they know no other waters
and have no creation myths,
the fish don't like it here: no way out,
no river to swim upstream or down.
Terminal Lake squats there,
its belly filled by springs, oh rain
and ice and snow. It's deep,
Terminal Lake, and no one's gone to the bottom
and come back up.
All's blind down there, and cold.
From above, it's a huge black coin,
it's as if the real lake is drained
and this lake is the drain: gaping, language-
less, suck- and sinkhole.


-Thomas Lux
Haiku # 23458, November 21, 2002 7:27 pm ET
by k_who_will_not_post_a_haiku_right_now of Underwater
actually, make that
urban SNOB instead of slob
suits me better
Haiku # 23457, November 21, 2002 3:27 pm ET
by urban snob
crack head asks us how
to get to Far Rockaway
look at a map, jerk
Haiku # 23456, November 21, 2002 3:26 pm ET
by urban slob
ask a floating oak
for sound advice and it says
"No, I'm a split pear"!
Haiku # 23455, November 21, 2002 2:52 pm ET
by word salad
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