# Best Haiku ever? You decide... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 6, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300 "2005-12-06T04:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/21 "2005-12-06T21:26:50Z")
See the poodle jump through the flaming hoop – too high! – overachievement burns. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/22 "2005-12-06T22:10:38Z")
My haikus are lame Why? I just cannot explain. For some reason, I can’t get the meter right. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/23 "2005-12-06T23:58:50Z")
Haiku are easy What _I’m_ having problems with Are the limericks There once was a man from Puru Whose limerick lines ended in two… ---
**Author:** ![Broken\_Wind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Broken\_Wind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broken_Wind)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/24 "2005-12-07T00:35:08Z")
GAH! A Haiku thread Unsure of syllable(ness) Counting my fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/25 "2005-12-07T01:18:06Z")
For a lark last night He bought his lady a card Quite the spender, he ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/26 "2005-12-07T01:48:37Z")
Does the word squirrel have two syllables in it? If not, no haiku. ☹ If everything has four syllables, then this haiku is correct. Other words are tough Like orange and nibbler and crayon Head scratchers for me. Colloquial-type Pronunciations make me Write stupid haikus. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/27 "2005-12-07T02:38:23Z")
Haiku are poems of seventeen syllables and in Japanese ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/28 "2005-12-07T03:17:21Z")
Here’s my eleventh grade haiku that earned an A and was hung up in the teacher’s lounge: Twelve syllable poem Can’t contain no rhymes at all? Stupid assignment. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/29 "2005-12-07T03:18:50Z")
Dude, haikus have 17 syllables. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/30 "2005-12-07T03:32:21Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Dude, haikus have 17 syllables. Oh, that’s ridi– (counts) … well, shit. I did go to Washington High… ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/31 "2005-12-07T03:45:32Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > “‘Gay’ remark?” What are you referring to? > > -Frl- Oh, sorry…the ‘Gay Joe’ part. For the 30’s thru the 50’s…he’s just faaabulous! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/32 "2005-12-07T03:51:38Z")
> [@Kilvert's Pagan](#): > > For a lark last night > He bought his lady a card > Quite the spender, he A card works wonders It was the thought that counted… $1.98 sex 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/33 "2005-12-07T04:10:51Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > There once was a man from Puru > Whose limerick lines ended in two… There once was a man from Verdun Oh, haiku. Five syllables, then Seven syllables, then five. It must be autumn. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/34 "2005-12-07T04:13:03Z")
This is a Haiku the third line is meaningful … ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/35 "2005-12-07T04:25:09Z")
There’s a perfect one in a books called [_Gay Haiku_](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076791984X/102-3013773-1811311?v=glance&n=283155) About Mansfield Park ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/36 "2005-12-07T09:56:39Z")
Pennies in a stream Falling leaves of sycamore Blackburn wrote this first ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/37 "2005-12-07T16:02:14Z")
I am the undisputed queen of nonsense Haikus. \*\* Fourteen Ninety-Nine. I lead you holding your leash Shaped like an ox head So it comes to pass, Oh no, she’s a transvestite! Rouge satellite feed Dark night of the soul They brought lots of hefty bags. The Hamster of Death! Laughing In Your Face Spam emerges from its tin Making sucking sounds All gather round please A Harley between his legs A male housekeeper. My hand just fell off! The story of a keyboard Bring me ipecac \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Nature\_s\_Call](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nature_s_call/32/19006_2.png) [@Nature\_s\_Call](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nature_s_Call)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/38 "2005-12-07T19:49:28Z")
H-A-I-K-U If you wish, spell it backwards U-K-I-A-H ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/39 "2005-12-07T19:55:20Z")
From my LiveJournal, Oct. 7th: Haiku is easy. Syllables - five, seven, five. Doesn’t even rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/40 "2005-12-07T20:01:24Z")
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