Bashō says something unhelpful
Bad Haiku
Horrible poetry for the digital age
29 Years, 74 Days and 78046 Haiku later...
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
Haiku regime change:
elite covert ops flown in--
install new haiku.
Haiku # 78018 January 11, 2026 5:10 pm ET
by Chavez Maduro of Caracas, Rhode Island
Damn the torpedos!
Full steam ahead. Write haiku!
Charge the enemy!
Haiku # 78017 January 10, 2026 9:48 pm ET
by Farragut Naval Academy of Haiku
Yeah, katong king kong
Singapore weirdo and dad
(Darth and/or chatbot)
Haiku # 78016 January 10, 2026 9:44 pm ET
by Why You Obsessed with Pee Pee?
You may not recall...
But I am oblongpeepee
The one and only
Haiku # 78015 January 10, 2026 10:48 am ET
by Oblongpeepee
My world lies ruined:
The old haiku man above
Now has a new line
Haiku # 78013 January 9, 2026 12:10 pm ET
by Dead Dog Eater of Bashomatic Static
This ancient website
Still alive 'cause no one clicks
Obscurity wins
Haiku # 78012 January 9, 2026 7:56 am ET
by Janis of I mean it's not a tables based layout
"Meet in the middle
says the unjust man. You take
a step towards him

he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says
the unjust man.”
Haiku # 78011 January 8, 2026 10:39 am ET
by Rise up
Run Minnesota--
And you better run like hell...
The Iceman cometh.
Haiku # 78010 January 8, 2026 10:08 am ET
by Ali the Somali of Great White North
Run Minnesota
National Guard will do it
Prediction markets
Haiku # 78009 January 8, 2026 12:42 am ET
by Purple Reign of Lake Minnetonka
Run Venezuela?
It has already been tried:
that "Matilda" song...
Haiku # 78008 January 7, 2026 7:38 am ET
by Barry Hellafante of Bahama Calypso
Seriously! There
Is something soothing about
Traversing Hyrule
Haiku # 78007 January 6, 2026 2:27 pm ET
by Janis of In the Depths
Tears Of the Kingdom
Tracking my progress in verse
Found the rubber pants
Haiku # 78006 January 5, 2026 8:11 pm ET
by Janis of Horon Lagoon Cave
Some days, you eat bear
One day, the bear may eat you.
And now I'm hungry
Haiku # 78005 January 5, 2026 5:19 pm ET
by Stop it already! of Not Hungary
the warmth bathes my skin,
sweet relief, but the winds bring
bitter cold again.
Haiku # 78004 January 5, 2026 5:07 pm ET
by awful poet.
Dozed off on the couch
Walked off a cliff in Hyrule
Lost many a heart
Haiku # 78003 January 4, 2026 4:26 pm ET
by Janis of Lurelin Village
Trump vomits Zion
Then invades Venezuela:
"America Last."
Haiku # 78002 January 4, 2026 4:12 pm ET
by Ben Shapiro's Rabbi
the empire strikes south
one dictator is removed
but there's always more
Haiku # 78001 January 4, 2026 2:09 am ET
by ash of taco death star
such a pedigree
seventy eight thousand 'ku
and we ain't done yet
Haiku # 78000 January 3, 2026 5:28 am ET
by ash
Happy new year Ash.
Regardless of Patel's cash,
Haiku is the fash.
Haiku # 77999 January 2, 2026 11:58 pm ET
by Fascist Factions of Fashion
Happy new year J.
Regardless of what fools say,
Haiku is the way.
Haiku # 77998 January 2, 2026 11:28 pm ET
by Wayfarer's Fairway of Metaphysical Golf
Twennytwennysicks
Will be much worse than last year.
So stay positive.
Haiku # 77997 January 2, 2026 11:25 pm ET
by Mr. Positive Battery Terminal of Assault & Battery Powered
Fame did not arrive.
The verses stayed where they were.
This too is a path.
Haiku # 77996 January 2, 2026 10:32 pm ET
by Janis of the liminal space I know and love.
Big data drains us
Heat-death of the social contact
No one looks away
Haiku # 77995 January 2, 2026 10:19 pm ET
by Janis of A cynical mindset
Big Tech masks its grin.
Numbers carve us into parts.
The rule, not the glitch.
Haiku # 77994 January 2, 2026 10:17 pm ET
by Janis of Fuck the tech bros and their ilk