# Create an absurd Haiku!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 1, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254 "2007-04-01T01:36:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 18

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/341 "2008-04-04T02:30:23Z")

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He screws with her head  
Despite all her best efforts  
She can’t let him win !

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/342 "2008-04-04T03:54:39Z")

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Victory is mine  
I am relentless at this  
I will not be stopped.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/343 "2008-04-04T04:03:14Z")

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I will post one more  
Just to ward off Elendil  
My true nemesis

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**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/344 "2008-04-04T08:45:17Z")

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I will poison your  
Lemonade, because I choose  
Random haiku plots

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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:** [April 4, 2008, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/345 "2008-04-04T10:48:18Z")

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A fellow teacher and I were discussing how teaching is sometimes like a donkey trying to fly. So I composed this for her (on a Friday).

Fly, little donkey,  
Spread wings, escape earth, glide high!  
Weekend is your sky.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/346 "2008-04-04T11:45:35Z")

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I will eat your cat  
Delicious pet sandwiches  
Here kitty kitty

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/347 "2008-04-04T14:17:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Cluricaun]  
I will post one more  
Just to ward off Elendil  
My true nemesis  
[/QUOTE]

Haiku thread returns  
Always irresistible  
Behold, it is I!

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/348 "2008-04-04T14:36:33Z")

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Doffing my top hat  
And twirling my long mustache  
Rats, foiled again.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/349 "2008-04-04T17:11:45Z")

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The damn zombie thread,  
rears yet again it’s ugly head,  
I wish it was dead!

Hey, what if it’s 5-7-5 AND it rhymes, are there bonus points?

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/350 "2008-04-04T17:16:44Z")

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Eyes of ham salad  
Brain filled with honey turkey  
Arise Sandwich Man!

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/351 "2008-04-04T17:58:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]  
…Hey, what if it’s 5-7-5 AND it rhymes, are there bonus points?  
[/QUOTE]

Bonus points? Doubtful.  
Rhyming is irrelevant  
in any haiku.

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**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/352 "2008-04-04T18:44:05Z")

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Age don’t matter, guys.  
A decade of Viagra,  
Old Eddy gets the blues.

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**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/353 "2008-04-04T19:13:49Z")

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Flitter flitter splat  
Smashing butterflies in spring  
Flitter flitter splat.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/354 "2008-04-04T19:33:46Z")

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I want to go to the Dells  
I’m running low on some stuff  
like new moccasins.

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**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/355 "2008-04-04T20:10:09Z")

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the pointless absurd  
haiku warms the cockles of  
my flinty cold heart

are warm cockles good  
with plum sauce or mayonnaise?  
or in a sandwich?

dead butterflies lie  
in heaps. smooshed with warm cockles  
yum, yum, in my tum

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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:** [April 4, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/356 "2008-04-04T22:17:02Z")

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My milkshake brings all  
the boys to the yard. They’re like,  
[“I drink your milkshake.”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCCdZmHk5Fk&feature=related)

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/357 "2008-04-04T23:15:33Z")

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Brand new gold tooth, see?  
I’m one bad motherfucker  
Don’t you mess with me.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/358 "2008-04-04T23:59:30Z")

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**Cluricaun** ’s gold tooth  
fills me with fear and loathing;  
please, please don’t hurt me!

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/359 "2008-04-05T00:03:28Z")

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Not to worry my friend  
That gold tooth is a rental  
Got to give it back.

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/create-an-absurd-haiku/398254/360 "2008-04-05T01:02:52Z")

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[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir]  
Bonus points? Doubtful.  
Rhyming is irrelevant  
in any haiku.  
[/QUOTE]

Why’d I even ask?  
Are you the Haiku Point God?  
The damn points are mine.

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