# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/81 "2005-12-11T03:08:01Z")
Buy teriyaki Or heat up some beef ramen? Mealtime dilemna. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/82 "2005-12-11T06:05:09Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > G > ~~G > G > > (_Necessary G > Not Necessary Not G > Actually G_) > > 😃 ::chuckles:: Reminds me of a mathematical limerick that I saw, an equation in symbolic form that could be read as: Integral t-squared dt From one to the cube root of three Times the cosine Of three PI upon nine Equals log of the cube root of _e_ …which can easily be shown to be true. **Nature’s Call** has shown Splendid versification: Poetry brings peace. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/83 "2005-12-11T13:05:17Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > ::chuckles:: > > Reminds me of a mathematical limerick that I saw, an equation in symbolic form that could be read as: > > Integral t-squared dt > From one to the cube root of three > Times the cosine > Of three PI upon nine > Equals log of the cube root of _e_ > > …which can easily be shown to be true. Cool! In that vein… G ~~G G A being supreme must consist of necessary things that persist. If He’s possibly there, we are forced to declare that He actually has to exist. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/84 "2006-01-05T21:40:25Z")
Casey and Andy Discuss haiku tradition Outcome no surprise [http://www.galactanet.com/comic/366.htm](http://www.galactanet.com/comic/366.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Crab\_Rangoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Crab\_Rangoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crab_Rangoon)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/85 "2006-01-05T21:53:57Z")
Three more minutes left Say, Can I finish in time? Guess so, good bye y’all! ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/86 "2006-01-05T22:29:32Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > So much ignorance > To fight; cite: Will a plane on > A treadmill take off? Brilliant. This should be the last Post in this thread for I am, McNew, thread killer. Alternatively, If you prefer a five-line ditty, I’ll try to make syllables fitty In this cleverest of threads, McNew here, now it’s dead- I know that my poetry’s sh\*tty! ---
**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:** [January 5, 2006, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/87 "2006-01-05T22:48:41Z")
McNew, this zombie Defeats all us thread killers [Post sixty-seven](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6883470&postcount=67) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/88 "2006-01-05T22:59:07Z")
Pipe-smoking tiger Inhales sweet vanilla smoke. Purr…puff…purr…puff…purr. ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/89 "2006-01-05T22:59:55Z")
Here’s one about my husband right now. Couch potato guy He’s even eating baked Lay’s You are what you eat. :dubious ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/90 "2006-01-05T23:19:01Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > 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. Well done! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2006, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/91 "2006-01-05T23:44:10Z")
Here’s one that’s not 5-7-5: Morning fog, a stone toad weeps in the ivy. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/92 "2006-01-06T05:23:53Z")
Orel Hershiser I must kill him, I know it maybe with an ax Can you guess what World Series was being played when I wrote this? ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300/93 "2006-01-06T14:04:00Z")
> [@Nature's Call](#): > > McNew, this zombie > Defeats all us thread killers > [Post sixty-seven](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=6883470&postcount=67) Nature’s Call, I see You had the first “dead thread” post And yet, it lived on. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-haiku-ever-you-decide/334300.md?page=4)