# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/61 "2008-09-10T13:10:54Z")
**danceswithcats** is pissed We get it already, dude Find a new topic ---
**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 10, 2008, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/62 "2008-09-10T13:19:42Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > Yeah, yeah, whatever! > Doesn’t it get dark and cold > Down in that cellar? 😛 Keep calling me gimp and these here little haikus are gonna get nasty :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/63 "2008-09-10T13:21:17Z")
Why on Earth would they sell clown make up that can’t be removed from the skin?!?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/64 "2008-09-10T15:46:07Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > When we ask questions > we are treated like dogshit > we deserve better Rules are clear, take whines To appropriate forums No more threadshitting. You know the rules well This is a formal warning Stop it muy pronto. Everybody else, Cool jets, as the weathered tree, Stands tall in long storm. ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/65 "2008-09-10T16:13:22Z")
How tasty indeed When I cook with my lover Mushroom Alfredo ---
**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 10, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/66 "2008-09-10T16:35:58Z")
Our board has grown tense Even here: a haiku thread! I blame Palin ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/67 "2008-09-10T17:03:56Z")
One thirty in rain Go low into a blind curve Did not see the truck ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/68 "2008-09-10T22:44:32Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Keep calling me gimp > and these here little haikus > are gonna get nasty :mad: The pen is mighty - More so than the sword, they say! Bring it on, sonny. 🆒 😛 And get the metre right next time. ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/69 "2008-09-10T22:58:15Z")
Seasons reversed here Cherry blossom descending But Dope is still Straight. ---
**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 10, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/70 "2008-09-10T23:14:18Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > The pen is mighty - > More so than the sword, they say! > Bring it on, sonny. 🆒 > > 😛 > > And get the metre right next time. That’s what you want then?. Think you are a gun-slinger? \< spits baccy on floor \> ---
**Author:** ![Debon\_Err](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Debon\_Err](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Debon_Err)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/71 "2008-09-11T04:07:58Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > That’s what you want then?. > Think you are a gun-slinger? > \< spits baccy on floor \> Gun-Sliger? 'Fraid not. But Haiku master, perhaps. Think you missed the point. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/72 "2008-09-11T11:45:06Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > That’s what you want then?. > Think you are a gun-slinger? > \< spits baccy on floor \> Don’t expectorate! So boorish, so provincial - So unhygienic. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![T.Slothrop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@T.Slothrop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T.Slothrop)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2008, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/73 "2008-09-13T04:42:11Z")
Originally posted by Chronos: “what makes a haiku is not the 5-7-5 syll- able pattern, but”. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/74 "2008-09-18T04:18:45Z")
He posts so wisely ‘Get rid of carriage returns’ Found advice is sweet ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/75 "2008-09-18T04:48:07Z")
September, golden Under skies of summerblue. October: waiting. Oh, my, mp3’s How they fill up my hard drive Silver strings, sweet songs. ---
**Author:** ![laughingboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/76 "2008-09-18T05:37:36Z")
> [@T.Slothrop](#): > > Originally posted by Chronos: > > “what makes a haiku > is not the 5-7-5 syll- > able pattern, but”. Oh, sweet irony makes that strange malformed haiku self-referential ---
**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/77 "2008-09-18T06:43:51Z")
I would haiku but Trash must be set on curb now. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/78 "2008-09-18T08:03:53Z")
Autumn: season of Mists and mellow fruitfulness. Oh, and colds. What joy. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/79 "2008-09-18T08:12:17Z")
a cold Fall . . . after the army worm invasion –hal(o) circles moon meta-ku byak-ko ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/80 "2008-09-21T04:33:06Z")
revised: a cold ~F ```auto ~~~~~~~~~ L ~~~~~~~~~~~ L after the armyworm invasion~ hal(o) circles moon Byakko ``` [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614.md?page=5)