# Rhyming Haiku Madness **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 16, 2018, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727 "2018-08-16T13:51:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/21 "2018-08-27T06:12:06Z")
Make it the day you Awaken to the beauty That is in your town. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/22 "2018-08-27T13:11:34Z")
Wake to the beauty See the good things in your life That is your duty. ---
**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:** [August 27, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/23 "2018-08-27T14:13:58Z")
Good things in your life: Friends, family, the Straight Dope, Children and a wife. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/24 "2018-08-28T13:12:10Z")
Friends, family, Dope As long as I have these things I will never mope. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2018, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/25 "2018-08-28T22:54:49Z")
Longing to have things Is fine, as long longing Doesn’t bind, like strings. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/26 "2018-08-29T13:24:17Z")
As long as longing Does not go on for too long. You start belonging. ---
**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:** [August 29, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/27 "2018-08-29T13:31:17Z")
Goes on for too long: Film should have stopped just before It began. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/28 "2018-08-29T17:10:18Z")
Haiku should have stopped Before the last syllable. Here, have this one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2018, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/29 "2018-08-29T20:00:17Z")
The last syllable In a haiku is the best. Is it fillable? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/30 "2018-08-30T13:36:53Z")
Haiku is the best Form of art and poetry From far East to West ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/31 "2018-08-30T13:40:13Z")
Art and poetry Are not so complicated Not like rocketry ---
**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:** [August 30, 2018, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/32 "2018-08-30T13:54:55Z")
So complicated - Who knew the presidency Would mean this much work? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/33 "2018-08-30T14:00:08Z")
Reminder: the first and third line should rhyme. The Presidency Under our current “leader” Is idiocy ---
**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 1, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/34 "2018-09-01T18:23:51Z")
Our current “leader” gets his hard “facts” from Fox and _The Weekly Reader_. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/35 "2018-09-02T02:43:24Z")
Fox may have their facts Confused with opinions just Like other news acts. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/36 "2018-09-03T19:11:31Z")
Opinions confused, The truth was out there, but the Minions refused. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/37 "2018-09-04T13:25:58Z")
The truth was out there I love Broadway musicals CATS, Pippin and Hair. ---
**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 7, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/38 "2018-09-07T01:54:53Z")
Broadway musical! I wanna sing, wanna dance Something farcical! ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/39 "2018-09-10T04:06:14Z")
I wanna wanna Go deep down a coal mine shaft, Like Lakawanna. ---
**Author:** ![boson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boson/32/11407_2.png) [@boson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boson)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727/40 "2018-09-10T04:53:27Z")
In a coal mine, Shaft Arrested the drillers ‘cause Of Black-face hate crime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rhyming-haiku-madness/819727.md?page=3)