# Haiku Madness - Even More Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [September 3, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719 "2020-09-03T14:47:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/1 "2020-09-03T14:47:41Z")
I knew we need more Haikus than we had before So here we go now. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/2 "2020-09-03T14:51:13Z")
Oh, I love haiku! the best kind of poetry grateful for this thread ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/3 "2020-09-03T15:02:27Z")
Haiku are pleasing When typing with fat, stubby Fingers on the phone. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/4 "2020-09-03T15:22:12Z")
One can write haiku a lot of different ways delightfully brief ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/5 "2020-09-03T15:27:30Z")
5 syllables, + 7 more, + 5 = 17. I smrt! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/6 "2020-09-03T15:31:06Z")
Dogs writing haiku? hmm, well, I don’t see why not; where are the cats, though? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/7 "2020-09-03T15:45:42Z")
Cats can’t write haiku– only sixteen toes. Four toes, four paws (bogus fact). ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/8 "2020-09-03T15:53:28Z")
Meow yow-yow, yow Mreep? Wacka wacka, ungow Hrup-hrup-hrup-ekk [splat]. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/9 "2020-09-03T16:06:04Z")
I stand corrected: Cats _can_ write haiku, but they’re all about hairballs. ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/10 "2020-09-03T16:20:43Z")
Most cats I have known could, I suspect, write haiku more eruditely. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/11 "2020-09-03T17:31:28Z")
Garfield’s brief haiku: The mouses I don’t bother Bring me lasagna. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/12 "2020-09-03T18:03:28Z")
Cats narrate haiku in their mother tongue. It is for us to translate. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/13 "2020-09-03T18:08:33Z")
So this is that and That is that and that is how You ad-dress a cat! ---
**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:** [September 3, 2020, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/14 "2020-09-03T18:10:57Z")
Now I wonder if stoats like Japanese poems written in this form? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/15 "2020-09-03T22:30:58Z")
Japanese poems: Not likely to be found in my fortune cookie. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/16 "2020-09-03T23:10:45Z")
My fortune cookie Is choc’late chip and raisin. With a honey glaze. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/17 "2020-09-04T00:11:45Z")
What is a Haiku? Sterile, smut-free limerick All reason, no rhyme ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/18 "2020-09-04T01:22:20Z")
Now is the time for All quick brown foxes to fling J D Pike my box ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/19 "2020-09-04T12:49:04Z")
Does anyone really Understand the true nature of The haiku’s structure? ---
**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:** [September 4, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719/20 "2020-09-04T13:59:24Z")
**Prof**., it is simply five, seven, five syllables; concise, elegant [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/haiku-madness-even-more-madness/919719.md?page=2)