the state of our union…
…in Haiku!
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I don’t know about the state of the union but the state of the republic appears dead.
The State of the Union is tickin’
The republic has taken a lickin’
We voted for Obama
We are truly screwed
Sandy’s like a peaceful day
[Haiku's supposed to refer to nature.]
[I'll never figure out how this site decides to double-space...]
after the voting
comes the recrimination
So Obie cuts out
Our vox populi
Cries, “Chocolate NutraSweet!”
Goats eat caviar.
blue establishment
Earth’s moon of hope now eclipsed
f’n Obamaphones
eleven six is
nine eleven inverted
history is pissed
th-th-that’s all folks
Amer’ca’s left the building
haiku very much
ZZMike:
One of my assignments to a dual enrollment class was to give me their honest attitude toward each form of poetry we’d studied, including everything from blank verse and sonnets to vers libre and haiku.
Got some really interesting stuff (these were really good kids specially picked for my class, mostly AP types). One kid told me that haiku is an anal-retentive limiting format for futile attempts to project obscure images nobody except the poet would want to consider.
the dark ages come
the republic goes to seed
we can then resow
tree of liberty
from tyrants and patriots
blood for watering
Haiku
Scmaiku
I just hate the bastard.
bocopro (9)
Re: “[h]aiku is an anal-retentive limiting format for futile attempts to project obscure images nobody except the poet would want to consider.” (cute)
So are mathematics and crossword puzzles.
As in all art, uninteresting imagery is both the artist’s and the observer’s fault, mostly the artist’s, to my way of thinkin’. If he can’t make his point, even to a rube, he sucks as an artist.
Kid, just say, “I don’t like it.” or “It doesn’t move me.” not “What I don’t like is invalid.”
I don’t like most poetry, either; but not because it’s beneath me.
I attribute it to “failurrre t’communicate.”
In other words, I think most poets, in every genre, pretty much suck;
but there are some poets who are wonderful, even some haikuists, I suppose.
Dunno, really. The only haikus I ever read are in these audience-participation thingies.
You know, haikuiness.
See? Now take ^JoeBandmember, for instance.
He can communicate.
^^^Joebm^^^:)))
after the spanking
we expect the anal sex
kill the centipede
my flag is now furled
but it’s still in its pole mount
mute witness to treason
my flag is now furled
but it’s still in its pole mount
crying “treachery”
boned boned boned boned boned boned boned
maybe also screwed
I am mad and sad
mad sad mad mad mad mad mad
Oh pffft what ever
Scaley-eyed electorate
War class envy free hand out guy
Who is income-bent.
Joe, so haiku appeals to the Sheldon Leonards among us? I can live with that. When I worked for the US District Court in Seattle we (the IT staff) had interminable meetings. Once, during a particularly painful one during which I saw many members of the clerk’s office peer, with visible frustration, through the windows at our sheer awesome meetingness, I wrote my death haiku and passed it around:
Meetings without end
How long can this continue
I shall kill myself.
That meeting ended about three seconds after the haiku got to the moderator. Whether he knew that I possessed a tanto is probably irrelevant. Of ocurse, if he knew that I had a katana it may have influenced his decision to close the meeting.
DougM, you just don’t get poetry. It is intended to let the poet establish his moral and intellectual superiority over the reader. Except for declasse shit like, say Kipling. Or that fucking Homer dude. Rule of thumb: if a nebbish like you can understand and appreciate it, it isn’t poetry.
I just learned that Rob McKenna conceded the WA Governor’s race to leftist greener creep Jay inslee.
Now I gotta go and throw up again.
This REALLY sucks.
Now there is only one Republican left in any of the statewide races here in WA, Kim Wyman running for Secretary of State, and there’s over 200,000 votes to be counted yet in King County (Theattle).
I will go to my grave firmly believing that the 2004 Governor’s race was won by Dino Rossi, but the thugs in Seattle cheated by adding ballots into the third recount. Republican Secretary Of State Sam Reed did absolutely nothing to change election rules after that. Kim Wyman is the last hope of any fairness in the WA election process.
Buy all the guns and ammo you possibly can. This country is headed for major unrest as the tyranny of Obamacare goes into effect. Satan has been turned loose, and it’s going to be a very rough ride for several years.
Steve (20)
And here I thought real, janyoowine po’try was s’post’a help a feller get laid.
Reckon that’s just the romantic in me, though.
Gawdamn Obama
Sent my Country down the tubes
And shook the handle
Short-sighted bastards
Voting to loot the wealthy
Sure didn’t help things
dammit! I warned you
don’t start the evil Haiku
but did you listen?
DougM, reread Homer. It won’t get you laid, but it might disconcert the foe. If he doesn’t do the trick, go to Nietszche. Poetry can kill.
Well, poetry combined with a machete.
US Senate:
dumbest Senator, is now not Patty Murray, Warren wins that race
WA governor:
Nancy’s boy Inslee, he’s synaptically challenged, but union approved
POTUS:
media in glee, yet four more years of decline, barry’s back in town
USA:
Divine providence, bestowed on our great nation, overcomes small men
karma is a bitch…
Obama’s purgatory:
sleep with fat michelle
Vote of the people
Like the mandate of heaven
Oh look! A squirrel!
^!!!!!!!! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!^
debt and deficit
leaves falling, wheels coming off
Keep your powder dry.
Historically pig
ignorant, “Gimmie! Free!! FREE!!”
“Democracy” FAIL.
Look what you did there.
Free Stuff is not Freedom, Prole.
Nature takes its course.
they are slow runners
take a progressive to woods
look! a hungry bear!
Most vote “Eat the rich.”
The one percent hide their stuff.
Deathmobile, “Eat me!”
seed corn is looted
congratulations you fools
nature sends Sandy
can’t be overdrawn
why is there no more money?
I still have checks left
moral progressives
hand out justice and fairness
other people’s money
see America
goose that laid the golden egg
now that goose is cooked
Howdy Doody The Monkey Boy
will usher in the Great Tribulation
the nation ignored the warning
like a cat
he shits
and hides it
the new religion
no fair counting your fingers
totally fucked now
song does not please me
start by tuning the guitar
want some fries with that
Haiku seems too formal a vehicle of expression, although some of these are brilliant!
We need limericks. The dirtier, the better.
#38— like the cat
he shits
and hides it
like a nose
it finds it.
PeggyU (#41)
There was a young man called Obama,
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