# The Haiku of the Straight Dope

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 24, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222 "2003-10-24T00:30:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Fatwater\_Fewl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@Fatwater\_Fewl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fatwater_Fewl)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222/21 "2003-10-29T07:04:34Z")

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The cormorants sleep,  
moon-full, on harbour perches.  
I light one more smoke.

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222/22 "2003-10-29T08:43:37Z")

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seven syllables  
in the middle line, the first  
and last have five… blah!

haikus as a rule  
don’t use rhyming as a tool  
so do not you fool

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**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222/23 "2003-10-29T09:21:46Z")

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Written for a summer Japanese class:

harusamewo  
kigafukakunomi  
hanagasaku

(the tree drinks deeply of the spring rain; flowers bloom)

shizukasani  
yukinofuruoto  
kikoeteru

(in the silence i can hear the sound of the snow falling)

Yah, my Japanese is pretty bad…

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222/24 "2003-10-29T23:50:02Z")

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My world is silkscreened  
as the snow falls whitely against black trees.  
The sky is porcelain.

My mind contracts.  
It turns inward against the cold.  
Even the sky draws in.

The air is colored  
blue-grey and slightly glowing.  
A neon winter.

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**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-of-the-straight-dope/209222/25 "2003-10-30T00:58:29Z")

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Brilliant rebutal,  
Clowded by spelling errors.  
Preview is your friend.

Cannot find server.  
Submit again and again.  
Now my post is cloned.

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