Regretful sunrise
Waking once more beside her
I gotta go now
and
Oh flaming anus
Will you give me no respite
Fucking hemorrhoids
OK, so it’s supposed to be about nature:
The possum got hit
It is still warm and not stiff
Plug in the crock pot
My favorite of Issa’s haikus:
Never forget:
we walk on hell,
gazing at flowers.
That was cool uh huh
When we killed that frog uh huh
It won’t croak again
–Master Butt-Head
The first kid, that was weird. I mean, I gave him materials on haiku and age appropriate materials on the Holocaust. The second kid… wait, this is an actual assignment? The third and fourth kid it just got bizarre.
“A proper haiku
is all about the spacing”
by Henry Gibson
[that reference being probably a tad on the ‘dated’ sign for most]
Here’s one even more dated, but arguably relevant
– Ambrose Bierce “Devil’s Dictionary”
A tautology
Mathematical image
Eschew the Escher.
Philadelphia poet Charlie O’hay would do haikuicides:
It’s not high enough!
The people below shouted
The crowd. Wrong again.
Summer Cumming is
the promise of a heat soon
intolerable.
Man and nature.
Summer Cumming
Is a porn actresses’ name
So it seems to me.
A vigil of trees
Leaf-bare by the fire-break camp
Where the fallen burned
^^ I don’t think I ever had to write a Holocaust haiku in school. I am very glad. But I could’ve done it without going to the library =D
I can easily believe it, though. Some English and Language Arts teachers are excellent, others can’t tell a diary from a novel from a play, much less understand what subject matter is suitable in Haiku.
Radio teapot
Dirt tunnel in the barracks
“Schultz, you idiot!”
A million times six
Render my poesy jejune.
Do I win a prize?
A haikaust, oh my. :eek:
Trying to think of well-known catchphrases that can be expressed as haiku. The closest I’ve come so far is:
NIAGARA FALLS!!!
Slowly I turned. Step by step.
Inch by inch. Then I…
In endless silence
A people slain unjustly
Cry out for justice.
The Niagra Falls,
A plume of glorious mist!
Niagra gets up.
