# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**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, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/41 "2001-11-01T20:22:55Z")
Two roads in the woods. I took the less-travelled one. That made the difference. ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/42 "2001-11-02T01:20:32Z")
Snow falls in the woods. I stop a while here and watch. Still a long way home. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/43 "2001-11-02T02:21:35Z")
John Donne: See this little flea? It just bit both me and you, So let’s have sex now. I’m about to die, And I look like a flat map. Soon I’ll be in heaven. Matthew Arnold: Hey, look at the sea, It’s really depressing me. God, the world sucks. Wilfred Owen: War is hell, you know. That “Dulce et decorum Est” thing is bullshit. Robert Browning: That picture up there Is my late wife. Ain’t she grand? Too bad I killed her. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/44 "2001-11-02T03:22:54Z")
The six hundred rode Into the valley of death But not out again ---
**Author:** ![JCThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@JCThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JCThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/45 "2001-11-02T03:29:41Z")
Poe… My true Love has died But I still lay by her side My Annabel Lee ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/46 "2001-11-02T03:38:43Z")
All the seas gang dry And rocks melt in the sun dear Still I will love you ---
**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 2, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/47 "2001-11-02T03:51:20Z")
Pondering Lenore Interrupted by a strange raven. “Nevermore!” ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/48 "2001-11-02T03:59:56Z")
Offering from a co-worker reading this thread: Dark desert highway Smell of colitas in air Check-out is useless ---
**Author:** ![Peregrine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a6a055/32.png) [@Peregrine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peregrine)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/49 "2001-11-02T04:21:51Z")
Ogden Nash Even the first man, our ancestor in Eden, was a host to fleas. ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/50 "2001-11-02T04:48:08Z")
**Peregrine** , that must be the only poem in the world that’s _longer_ when you turn it into a haiku. Well done! More Shakespeare: 1. If, when you are old, You still don’t have any kids, That would really suck. 1. You are a lot like A beautiful summer day, But you’ll last longer. 1. My friend boffed my girl, But he and I are the same, So she still loves me. 1. I’m getting old now, And will probably die soon. You should love me more. 1. Love is a fever, And I don’t want to be cured. It’s driving me nuts. _Venus and Adonis_ The protagonists Almost have sex many times, Then a boar kills him. _The Rape of Lucrece_ Tarquin rapes Lucrece, And she feels really guilty, So she stabs herself. Help me…I’m addicted… :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GrandfatherTrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@GrandfatherTrout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandfatherTrout)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/51 "2001-11-02T16:01:22Z")
A: Alice, who died. Twenty-five other kids, too. _Alphabet tragique._ ---
**Author:** ![king\_of\_spain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7cd45c/32.png) [@king\_of\_spain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/king_of_spain)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/52 "2001-11-02T18:21:30Z")
Stop all the clocks and Put out moon and stars and sun. He’s dead and it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/53 "2001-11-02T19:40:14Z")
**Some REAL Robert Burns** : Wi’ joctelegs auld guid-wife’s kiutlin weel-hoordit staw frae ‘mang them a’ Heh heh heh. ---
**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 2, 2001, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/54 "2001-11-02T20:22:01Z")
Over lips, past gums A stomach given notice Unnamed arriving ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2001, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797/55 "2001-11-03T06:25:27Z")
archy was a bug he typed by jumping on keys very ambitious [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/turn-your-favorite-poem-into-haiku/90797.md?page=2)