Lets do haiku

Nov 29 09:24 UTC 2000

Gore erection,
Tipper chokes,
Barfs.

response 2 of 24:

Nov 29 09:33 UTC 2000

Fasting on a slice of melon,
The farmer's daughter weeps
maggots.

response 4 of 24:

Nov 29 16:18 UTC 2000

This one is titled:  High School Play Selection Process
Copyright 1999 by John H. Remmers

        No guys trying out,
        All much too busy with sports,
        "Twelve Angry Women".

And then we have:  Joke Haiku

        Horse walks into bar,
        The bartender asks the horse,
        "Hey, why the long face?"

response 6 of 24:

Nov 29 20:38 UTC 2000

Weird... for once in my life this is actually sort of interesting.

Truck mom - bat out of hell
Don't fuck with me, punk!
I bought it for safety.

response 8 of 24:

Nov 30 01:14 UTC 2000

Haiku is stupid.
Why does everyone write it?
I've never liked it.

response 10 of 24:

Nov 30 07:07 UTC 2000

Haiku is haiku.
Cannot you understand that?
Haiku is hiaku.

response 12 of 24:

Nov 30 12:28 UTC 2000

basho they aint
but ah shore aint him m'self
he wuz perty good!

response 14 of 24:

Nov 30 17:48 UTC 2000

<COMMENT>
You shoulda substituted an appostrophe for the second syllable of "syllables":
I count six in that line. ;)
</COMMENT>

response 16 of 24:

Nov 30 18:38 UTC 2000

Haikus translated from other languages don't necessarily follow
the (5, 7, 5) pattern.  Then too, a Haiku must meet other requirements
besides number of syllables per line.  The two I posted probably
weren't genuine haiku, although the first is closer than the
second.

response 18 of 24:

Nov 30 23:02 UTC 2000

s/Koo/Coo  ;)

response 20 of 24:

Dec 1 19:37 UTC 2000

Whatever, people
Listen to my cat purring
It makes me happy

response 22 of 24:

Dec 1 22:18 UTC 2000

(5/7/5 is traditional, but I've seen actual, legit, haiku from the 
masters go 5/5/7 or 7/5/5.

Haiku trivia:  
  Haiku are descended from (among many other things) tanka 
(short poems), which had 31 syllables, 5,7,5,7,7.  Tanka were
a short form of renka, long poems (I think.  I've not been able to 
find a definition of renka in this book, but I'm pretty sure.),
which went 5,7,5,7,7,5,7,5,7,7,...  for as long as people cared
to write.  Now, one of the Cool Things Poets Did is they would
get together in little groups and write renga, which are long
linked poems.  The first guy would do 5,7,5, the next guy 7,7,
etc, until the beer ran out.  ;)  Unsurprisingly, people would
write short linked poems, too (you'd think that would be tanga,
but I've never actually seen that word except in kanji that I
don't even try to transliterate.)  

    In the early part of the Kamakura Era, 1186-1339, such linked
  poems became exceedingly popular, and two schools arose, the
  serious, [kanji], Ushinha, and the comic, [Mushinha].
  The Mushinha gave the name Haikai Renga, "sportive
  linked poems", abbreviated to Haikai, [kanji], to their
  compositions, and this became used of all such poetry and
  poetical exercises.  The word haiku is a mixture of this
  expression, haikai, and hokku, [kanji], the first poem of the
  Long Linked Verses, haikai plus hokku becoming haiku, about the
  middle of the 18th century.  "Haikai" sometimes means haiku, and
  some old people still use the word "hokku".
    ...
    The relation of haiku to renku is a little like that of 
  ancient Greek statues to the temples in which they were 
  enshrined.  Only gradually did the statue begin to be carved
  for its own sake.
                      - R. H. Blyth, _Haiku_, 
                        volume 1, "Eastern Culture.  
)

response 24 of 24:

Dec 4 17:02 UTC 2000

It just goes to prove
I'm geekier than all y'all.
I shall conquer the world!