# 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:** 4
**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 9, 2005, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/61 "2005-12-09T17:03:04Z")
A Doper named, um, Malacandra Spouts verse you can’t understandra About his haiku My thought’s I’d tell you But I won’t 'cuz I’m fearful of slandra 😃 huh huh huh… so there! ---
**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 9, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/62 "2005-12-09T17:04:10Z")
damn… “Spouts verse…” should be “Spouts verses…” ---
**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 9, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/63 "2005-12-09T18:06:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Technically a haiku’s more than just the 5-7-5 construction. The first two lines should present an image, and the last should be a rephrasing of the same content or an insight. Isn’t it also so that a true haiku refers to a season, ususally in the first line - and that 5-7-5 isn’t strictly required? This is an interesting [article](http://pages.infinit.net/haiku/histnortham.htm) with many examples, my favourite being… Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing the eye of the blackbird. ## (Stevens 1971, 20 - modified as suggested by Swede) That aside, here’s a [Haiku Generator](http://www.everypoet.com/haiku/default.htm). It took me 27 refreshes to get this, um, gem: delighted pygmy screeching piranhas emerge thirstily tartly and yet only a few more to get this one: palm labors slowly bell-ringer realizes muddy solemn chime Whoa! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/64 "2005-12-09T18:32:46Z")
So much ignorance To fight; cite: Will a plane on A treadmill take off? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/65 "2005-12-09T18:58:15Z")
Mindless devotion, An obessesion with structure, But can it be art? ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/66 "2005-12-09T19:00:07Z")
“Obsession,” even. Sheesh! _Bonks self on head with fists._ Preview Post, your friend. ---
**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 9, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/67 "2005-12-09T19:42:25Z")
Why is “Nature’s Call” the last post on many threads that sink like a stone? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/68 "2005-12-09T23:05:47Z")
Triskadecamus, why haven’t you posted here? I love your haiku! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/69 "2005-12-09T23:07:19Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > A Doper named, um, Malacandra > Spouts verse you can’t understandra > About his haiku > My thought’s I’d tell you > But I won’t 'cuz I’m fearful of slandra > 😃 huh huh huh… so there! Limericks for me? **Nature’s Call** , I’m flattered, but Your rhyming sucks ass. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/70 "2005-12-09T23:11:41Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Triskadecamus, > why haven’t you posted here? > I love your haiku! > > 🙂 **Liberal** is here? “Modal Ontological Proof” will follow soon. ---
**Author:** ![Arch\_Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9f8e36/32.png) [@Arch\_Trout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arch_Trout)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/71 "2005-12-09T23:18:50Z")
The cat sat at home Elegant white orange, dead Such a shame, I think ---
**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 10, 2005, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/72 "2005-12-10T03:42:42Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Limericks for me? > **Nature’s Call** , I’m flattered, but > Your rhyming sucks ass. 😃 A duelist that waxes poetic with haiku? - a form so pathetic! I say, “Bring it on!” to the three lined moron who suffers from defects genetic! (oooooh, you gonna take that? 😃 😃 :D) ---
**Author:** ![drpepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8baadc/32.png) [@drpepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drpepper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/73 "2005-12-10T05:11:15Z")
Haikus show promise Early on; – then the thread goes Rapidly downhill ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/74 "2005-12-10T05:24:12Z")
A cold snowy night Logged on: the SDMB. Warmth inside the snow. 🙂 ---
**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 10, 2005, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/75 "2005-12-10T05:41:11Z")
wireless laptops allow outdoor computing but sheesh, come inside! ---
**Author:** ![MrJackboots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MrJackboots](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrJackboots)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/76 "2005-12-10T07:38:22Z")
This is one of my favorites: _Haiku! Pardon me. Haiku! It’s pollen season. Haiku! Damn. Haiku!_ – Steve Jackson ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/77 "2005-12-10T10:01:32Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > A duelist that waxes poetic > with haiku? - a form so pathetic! > I say, “Bring it on!” > to the three lined moron > who suffers from defects genetic! > > (oooooh, you gonna take that? 😃 😃 :D) The foolish man writes Bad limericks to insult; Silence is wiser. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/78 "2005-12-10T13:54:58Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > A cold snowy night > Logged on: the SDMB. > Warmth inside the snow. > > 🙂 A cold snowy night Doper **Sunspace** brings us some warmth True to his/her name. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/79 "2005-12-10T14:16:45Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > **Liberal** is here? > “Modal Ontological > Proof” will follow soon. G ~~G G (_Necessary G Not Necessary Not G Actually G_) 😃 ---
**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 10, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/80 "2005-12-10T21:50:52Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The foolish man writes > Bad limericks to insult; > Silence is wiser. My opponent **Malacandra** is right The weary battle is finally done He’s shown us the value of silence: [cite](http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/silenceisgol.html) And as a gentleman has this fight won. My clumsy limericks pale beside The elegant breath of his deft haiku The message within his last one implied That I should be silent. Agree? I do. So after this sonnet has come to end I’ll type no more verse with intent to spar I offer my hand to my foe as friend As well as to all Dopers, near and far …Ah poetry then is its own reward …The pen is mightier, yes, than the sword. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300.md?page=5)