# Turn your favorite poem into haiku **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797 "2001-10-31T22:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MadPoet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@MadPoet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPoet)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/1 "2001-10-31T22:09:27Z")
Rules of the game: Take a poem that is not already in haiku form and rewrite it so that it fits into the 5-7-5 format. For example, Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time”: Gather ye rosebuds Because time waits for no one This means you, virgins ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/2 "2001-10-31T22:23:09Z")
Listen my children, Paul Revere yelled from his horse, “British are coming!” Although he was rich, Richard Cory was lonely. So, he shot himself. Clever Ulysses Sailed around for twenty years Before getting home. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/3 "2001-10-31T22:27:01Z")
A well-endowed man Gave himself oral pleasure Up in Nantucket. ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/4 "2001-10-31T22:32:47Z")
Green Eggs and Ham exist Sam exists in the same plane I do not like either ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/5 "2001-10-31T22:43:48Z")
Hoo boy. Just wait until **saepiroth** sees this. ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/6 "2001-10-31T22:48:54Z")
In honor of _The Simpsons_: The bird says “Nevermore” To the man who lost Lenore Then Homer throws a vase ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2001, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/7 "2001-10-31T23:18:17Z")
Ozymandias “Look on my works, ye mighty” Written in the dust ---
**Author:** ![Mysphyt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dbc845/32.png) [@Mysphyt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mysphyt)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/8 "2001-11-01T02:35:11Z")
The ladies and whores speak to me of coffee spoons. I will eat a peach. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/9 "2001-11-01T03:29:52Z")
One! Two! Snicker-snack! Thou hast slain the Jabberwock? Frabjous day! Callay! ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/10 "2001-11-01T04:28:30Z")
Edna St. Vincent Millay: Sonnet xix You will die someday, Your lovely body ruined. My love can’t save you. Sonnet cxxviii I will die someday, but I have things to do first. Death can go hungry. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/11 "2001-11-01T04:56:20Z")
Dante went to Hell. Vergil took him on a tour. They saw lots of Popes! ---
**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/12 "2001-11-01T09:59:54Z")
I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/13 "2001-11-01T12:43:47Z")
A slouching rough beast Towards Bethlehem it goes Waiting to be born ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/14 "2001-11-01T13:15:38Z")
\*\*Ancient Mariner Shoots Albatross with Crossbow Gets home Late, Alone. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/15 "2001-11-01T13:17:11Z")
I am a Pepper If you imbibe this soft drink You’re a Pepper too ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/16 "2001-11-01T13:41:09Z")
Ogden Nash Termite knocked on wood, found it tasted good. So May fell through floor today. ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/17 "2001-11-01T14:10:35Z")
Tying runs on base But Casey whiffs ineptly Not a contract year ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/18 "2001-11-01T14:43:49Z")
Dang it, **Borborygmi** , that was gonna be mine! Kublai Kahn put his pleasure-dome in Xanadu high resale price ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/19 "2001-11-01T14:49:17Z")
( **caveman** : ya gotta be quick around here! ;)) Know If you’re a Man? Refer to Kipling’s checklist Determine your score ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/20 "2001-11-01T14:54:17Z")
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