# Can you haiku?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614>\
**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:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/81 "2008-09-21T08:10:36Z")

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LSAT practice test  
Comes early in the morning  
Yet I must haiku

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/82 "2008-09-21T13:11:25Z")

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Summer is over  
The houseplants are back inside  
The front porch looks bare

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**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/83 "2008-09-21T17:18:25Z")

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Leaves begin to fall  
In drifts of scarlet and gold  
Hours lost to raking

:mad:

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/84 "2008-09-21T18:33:47Z")

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Winter is Coming  
Motto of ancient House Stark  
Grim bunch of dudes, them

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**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/85 "2008-09-22T18:27:23Z")

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> [@Queen\_Bruin](#):
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> Yet I must haiku

O.K. you insist  
That I, Yeti must haiku  
Space did not fool me

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**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-haiku/462614/86 "2008-09-23T02:47:44Z")

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The back story…a young co-worker was frustrated. One commonality we shared was the Mary Tyler Moore show. While exchanging favorite moments, I offered the moment where Murray said of Ted’s failed attempt at decency, “When a donkey attempts to fly, you don’t criticize it for not getting far off the ground.” Words to that effect.

So we talked about how hard the job is, maybe you do your best, etc. Anyway, I emailed her a donkey haiku one Friday:

_Fly, little donkey,  
Stretch your wings, soar on high,  
Weekend is your sky._

Thereafter it became known as the “defective donkey haiku” for its lack of seven syllables in the second line. Oh sure, we could add “and” to make it work. But we’re rebels or something 🆒

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