# Can you haiku? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2008, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614 "2008-09-08T14:44:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/41 "2008-09-09T13:44:49Z")
I was expecting Lots of Barn House haiku here We like to complain ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/42 "2008-09-09T15:02:12Z")
There’s too little praise For toast, warm and delicious, On this autumn morn. And tea, hot and strong. It fills my favourite mug. Wheat and leaf: breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/43 "2008-09-09T15:17:24Z")
groinal power surge flesh sweats heart pounds bedsprings creak bitches on my tip ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/44 "2008-09-09T15:42:38Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > groinal power surge > flesh sweats heart pounds bedsprings creak > bitches on my tip That’s quite some haiku; Bit NSFW - Time for a new thread? ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/45 "2008-09-09T15:56:21Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Dude, you joined in June - > Four hundred posts ev’ry month? > Time you got a life! How very funny posting on a message-board determines what’s “life”. eta haiku accuracy. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/46 "2008-09-09T16:39:59Z")
Oh, I _can_ haiku, but, from the time I was first introduced to them in elementary school, I never saw any reason that I _should_. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/47 "2008-09-09T16:59:39Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Oh, I _can_ haiku, but, from the time I was first introduced to them in elementary school, I never saw any reason that I _should_. Chicks dig poetry Yet I have no girlfriend now Will switch to [cartoons](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/dogbutler/Toons/photo1Copy12.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![ming\_the\_merciless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@ming\_the\_merciless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ming_the_merciless)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/48 "2008-09-09T17:06:24Z")
Sancho panza wet Sees raindrops capture sunlight A rainbow is born the day ebbs slowly sunlight drips colour from leaves night creeps like autumn ---
**Author:** ![Spacegirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Spacegirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spacegirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/49 "2008-09-09T17:57:52Z")
Fall is coming fast I had a dream about snow I want summer back ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/50 "2008-09-09T18:29:24Z")
My post might be here Cyberspace is virtual So it might not be. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/51 "2008-09-09T20:07:49Z")
Mushroom Alfredo Makes me sixteen again Love my new kitty. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/52 "2008-09-09T20:23:52Z")
- to clear up any confusion, the above post uses the 16th century Cambrian pronunciation of sixteen “six-tee-'en” \* ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/53 "2008-09-09T21:42:03Z")
I’m one half James Brown And three quarters Jack Daniels Watch out here I come. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/54 "2008-09-09T21:53:06Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > How very funny > posting on a message-board > determines what’s “life”. > eta haiku accuracy. Yeah, yeah, whatever! Doesn’t it get dark and cold Down in that cellar? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/55 "2008-09-09T23:47:19Z")
“No, you can’t” they said But there are miles between “You can’t” and “Shouldn’t” ---
**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/56 "2008-09-10T00:07:59Z")
Here’s one I wrote for the old “Spam-ku” site: Slippery meat cube Fry it or make musubi What does pink taste like? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/57 "2008-09-10T00:08:06Z")
Previously sent to The Internet Oracle: Why do my haiku Always end after two lines? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/58 "2008-09-10T06:31:22Z")
Dopers are clever Writing haikus is an art Marriage in heaven ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/59 "2008-09-10T08:10:53Z")
This doper is pissed Stop the obfuscation Fix the damned boards, now My subscription paid I should not see any ads You are lying pricks Leg is getting wet Mods say that it’s only rain Why it smell like pee? When we ask questions we are treated like dogshit we deserve better ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/60 "2008-09-10T08:54:14Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > Previously sent to The Internet Oracle: > > Why do my haiku > Always end after two lines? There was an old man from Peru Whose limericks stopped at line two; There was an old maid from Saigon [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614.md?page=4)