# The Haiku Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2000, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580 "2000-02-07T11:48:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/41 "2000-02-17T00:42:00Z")
loneliness I find rustling with the leaves outside my bedroom window ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/42 "2000-02-17T00:47:00Z")
anticipation; joy sneaking inside my heart, love, unlooked for, finds. ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/43 "2000-02-17T00:51:00Z")
rain falling on me, plants a seed of emptiness; tears join the flow down. ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2000, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/44 "2000-02-17T19:00:00Z")
I’m here in Denver. Here’s what I am wondering: Where is all the snow? * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/45 "2000-02-18T06:37:00Z")
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The car was a gift, Thirteen hundred dollars more Will make it legal.\ \

Multi-thousandaire? I am a pedestrian. And I walk slowly.\ \

          **Tris** \ \           \ \*\* _-_ \*\* \ ---

**Author:** ![Buck\_Naked](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Buck\_Naked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Naked)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/46 "2000-02-18T22:09:00Z")
you i truly hate you stupid ass freaking bitch get me more dinner * * * I feel more like I do now than I did when I got here. ---
**Author:** ![Yue\_Han](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/eada6e/32.png) [@Yue\_Han](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yue_Han)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2000, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/47 "2000-02-18T22:15:00Z")
Will\_ice\_storms\_come\_here, and\_cause\_school\_cancellations? No.\_We\_get\_cold\_drizzle. February\_sucks. Especially\_in\_Muncie. In\_Indiana. –John ---
**Author:** ![Ophanim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8491ac/32.png) [@Ophanim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ophanim)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/48 "2000-02-19T04:44:00Z")
Purplebear mmmhhmmm oh yeah what a babe! Purplebear hottielicious wondergirl Purplebear I think I love you kiss me Purplebear make me a sandwich please! * * * I’m back! … Oh so NO-ONE knew I was gone? Well that’s just freakin great. ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/49 "2000-02-19T09:29:00Z")
(Note to self: pressing enter AND typing {br} on these message boards makes 2 line breaks) \ I can’t remember The last time that I had Spam… Maybe it is pink. Okay, you know what? Spam is “flesh” colored, that’s it. “pink” and “brown” both count. O.O \ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/50 "2000-02-19T11:56:00Z")
happy springtime pigs coalesce from dewy rays of dripping sunlight … the great satan warms a googolplex of croissant with tartaric flames (Hey, you want NORMAL, ask someone else) * * * A new world order has been formed/between the cheque book and the dawn/A new renaissance man is born" Jim Moginie/Peter Garrett/Martin Rotsey(Midnight Oil), “Renaissance Man” ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2000, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/51 "2000-02-19T12:18:00Z")
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The clock ticks loudly. Hero waits for a villain. Then he becomes one. \ \

People seeking peace. Run from fear. Hide from danger. Carry fear with them. \

          **Tris** \ \           \ \*\* _-_ \*\* \ ---

**Author:** ![CatRimbaud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@CatRimbaud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatRimbaud)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/52 "2000-02-20T05:24:00Z")
Ahhh… a Haiku thread. What a beautiful thing for a pathetic would-be poet like myself. Translation: YAY! Another chance to bastardize a perfectly good art form!!! I am all alone I’m smoking a cigarette And drinking coffee No one understands Why I can’t just go to bed And sleep like my kids I have no real life Just a Straight Dope fantasy And too much spare time I ate the Devil I seasoned him quite nicely With some arsenic Now I’ll burn in Hell But I don’t really mind it At least I’ll be warm ## Thank you all for suffering through that. Now I can feel fulfilled in my life and die a happy woman. I have included a certain amount of filth to please the gentlemen of the press. –Baudelaire ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/53 "2000-02-20T20:59:00Z")
Ta-da! Here it is! My seventeen-hundredthh post! Hey, Tris! Where’s my prize? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/54 "2000-02-20T22:46:00Z")
I should be working; Instead I debate with you The color of Spam… My Spam is flesh-pink, And makes a yummy sandwich; Please hold the mayo… Fried Spam, tho’, is brown And tasty with Kraft singles On Sunbeam white bread… ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/55 "2000-02-21T08:33:00Z")
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My heart is warm now, At the proof of your return. I do not count words. \ \

Cheer, when you have joy! Weep, as you feel your sorrow, But come back, and share.\ \

          **Tris** \ \           “Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.” – \*\*Fyodor Dostoyevsky[b/] \ \*\* _-_ \*\* \ ---

**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2000, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/56 "2000-02-21T15:51:00Z")
Mondays truely suck. Vacation in but three days. To much crap to do. Why must we prepare For any form of chaos? We are too ready. * * * Habit rules the unreflecting herd. - Wordsworth ---
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2000, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/57 "2000-02-25T22:21:00Z")
Straight Dope Message Boards, I missed you so much this week! Thank the gods you’re back. * * * Live a Lush Life Da Chef ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/58 "2000-02-26T07:15:00Z")
I cannot center. My thoughts can only be left. ## My rights are taken. The tools used to create art, ## Are too powerfull for all. What might be, is gone. We must all be limited. ## Because some are small. Creation is beyond them. Destruction takes no great skill. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/59 "2000-03-01T22:36:00Z")
Be kind, in your strength. Share the fruits of your learning. Tend God’s garden, Earth. ---
**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2000, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580/60 "2000-03-01T22:58:00Z")
Cat Haiku ``` I love catnip mice That's why I bite their heads off They're good for breakfast ``` * * * I drive **way** too fast to worry about my cholesterol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-haiku-thread/14580.md?page=4)