Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
27 Years, 187 Days and 77099 Haiku later...

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
i wonder whether
insincere apologies
surpass mere silence
Haiku # 48994, August 14, 2012 12:31 am ET
by Lush
well it's about time
someone pulled a me on here
it was pretty good
Haiku # 48993, August 9, 2012 1:35 pm ET
by black sheep etc etc
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