Today my friends is Thursday Haiku Madness at The Cheeky Diva.
Woooooo HOOOOO! Run around naked
Today is the day where you post your best and worst and most excellent haikus here, just in case you have no where else to put them. Or even if they’ve been published or laughed at and shunned in a previous life. I don’t really care where they came from, or how good or bad they are. I just want them all. Here. Now… so finish reading and start writing/posting/commenting. All participants get a cookie. That’s a lie.
Here are the “rules” regarding haiku~
From Wikipedia:
Haiku in English is a development of the Japanese haiku poetic form in the English language.
Contemporary haiku are written in many languages, but most poets outside of Japan are concentrated in the English-speaking countries[citation needed].
It is impossible to single out any current style, format, or subject matter as definitive. Some of the more common[citation needed] practices in English include:
- Use of three lines of up to 17 syllables[citation needed];
- Use of a season word (kigo)[citation needed];
- Use of a cut or kire (sometimes indicated by a punctuation mark) to compare two images implicitly[citation needed].
English haiku do not adhere to the strict syllable count found in Japanese haiku,[1] and the typical length of haiku appearing in the main English-language journals is 10–14 syllables.[2][3] Some haiku poets are concerned with their haiku being expressed in one breath[4][5][6] and the extent to which their haiku focus on “showing” as opposed to “telling”.[7][8] Haiku uses an economy of words to paint a multi-tiered painting, without “telling all”.[9] Or as Matsuo Bashō puts it, “The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.”[10]
Yawn!!!!!! We don’t follow rules here, but the 5-7-5 is great. If you wanna use the seasonal imagery, that’s fine too. I’m not going to bother with that myself. Authority be damned. Please fill this page up with yours. I’m dying to read them. Real poets, my apologies. I sincerely hope this does not cause the decline and demise of poetry as an art form. Here are a few that I was inspired to put down this morning:
What the hell is that?
Please don’t make me eat that
I had a big lunch
*****
Shut the goddam door
Am I heating the outside?
Who pays the gas bill?
*****
Homework isn’t done?
Aren’t you a little loser?
1st grade is so hard
*****
You are such an ass
should have listened to my mom
Why are you still here?
*****
I need some new clothes
I’ve become such a lard ass
I want a cookie
Okay, your turn!
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Awesome. If I wasn’t so busy today I would Haiku the crap out of this place.
Well, do it later, or tweet it to me and I’ll post it.
I never should have signed up for twitter and the other blog or the 67 other projects I am doing at the same time on top of the novel and Halloween. I would be good at Haiku. I will try to come up with something.
You type A people make me sick. Ok fine. I’ll give you a pass.
I have so little control over my all-art-side-of-the-braininess. I never know what is going to happen in my head next. I might start doing Haikus and then do nothing else for three weeks and wake up in a ditch with sushi in my hair wearing a kimono and and clutching a bloody samurai sword. Are you willing to risk it?
Wow! I appreciate the thought, but I really wasn’t looking for that type of commitment. I appreciate how deeply you you get into character. That made me spit out my coffee, by the way. First belly laugh of the day goes to you. A big honor in my little world. Well played.
Every time I try a new art form my brain goes crazy and I never know what will happen. I was going to make just one or two tikis. That is what I told myself. I have a compulsive, addictive personality type.
I find that I’m the same way. Thanks to Hotspur and Hastywords and their poetic efforts, all I can think about is writing poems–but for me, they have to be dreadful, or they just aren’t “me”. Does that make any sense? Curse you Hotspur and your Romantic Monday!!!! I’ve all but abandoned my sweet and tender, teen romance for poems–not really, but next weeks chapter is all ready to go and I’m bored.
That is why I only create art when the mood strikes me. Then I let it sweep me up like a raging river. I can never do art on a schedule.
Me either. Only when it’s funny. Like Roger Rabbit in handcuffs.
What you do with animated mammals in the privacy of your own thoughts…
Buuuhaaahaaa! –Oh cut it out–you know what I meant.
No, you asked for it, you got it… I am here to serve, like a true samurai…
How does a samurai say-You are a kimono wearing badass, and I am forever in your debt?
Notori yamadashda ne okari damashida hi yonozo domo arigato. Hai?
oh my god I’m impressed. How do you do it?
I just made that up.
Incredible
It just flows, like bad Mexican food, out of my body.
Thanks for sharing?
Ha… that’s funny.
shivering in cold
silence I wish that the blast-
ed furnace were fixed
Nice! Thanks!
be nicer when the furnace is fixed (lol)
No doubt! It’s snowing here today! I hate October. Blecch!
What about my furnace?
Well, tell us about your furnace. I said no rules except 5-7-5.
No, the last line of the haiku said “Ed furnace”
Oh! Ha ha! I’m reading the comments in my dashboard, so sometimes they don’t look the same as they do on the page.
Don’t read and drive!
is yours out of commission too — wear your boots and big housecoat over your clothes in the house
Confusion for me.
The real, the abstract, ideas
The cure? Tequila.
Ha ha!!! Love it. Tequila cures everything that ails ya! Thank you!
Woke up in a ditch…
Bloody katana in hand…
Sushi in my hair…
Turning Japanese…
I’m wearing a kimono…
Why did I Haiku?…
How did I get here?…
I’m all art-side-of-the-brain…
Why did I Haiku?…
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I guessthat the tradition does not ususally include multiple verses, but what do I know? I will now go drink tea and paint cherry blossoms.
Love it! Thanks so much for taking time out to do this. This is going to be a very interesting day.
That was fun. Unless I can’t make it stop.
Yeah, I get that with haiku and limerick.
I am taking calming breaths and finding my center… the chi will not flow to the brain.
Well, my chi has to take it’s lunch hour, so I better follow it or it will be a long day.
okey dokey
Chi all fed. It likes Oscar Mayer weiners. Back for an afternoon of haiku hyjinks -oh crap. How do you spell that word?
I can’t spell my way out of a pappper bog…
me ether.
ether makes you dizy.
That explains a lot.
Yeah it does…
Like why you aren’t following me on Twitter.
I haven’t really figured out twitter yet. Or the blog. Or the computer. Or life on this planet. Nothing personal.
Didn’t take it that way. My VCR still blinks 12:00
I am a technomoron.
We call it technophobe in Nebraska
I have not yet mastered all the languages of your primitive planet.
Limericks?…..Hmmm, maybe we’ll have to open up the floor for limericks tomorrow. Never done one. Oh boy
Oh, I’ve got a hideous godawful stack of them. Started with a Haiku for The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand after a haiku challenge.
Pretty much went downhill from there…
Well, if they’re as awful as mine-which I doubt, this is the place for them.
I did one seriously, for a post about another blogger’s book. Most of them are just me amusing the hell out of myself.
Are they on your blog? I haven’t had a chance to go and look yet to be honest. I’ve been so busy replying to comments and being a “twitter madwoman” as a real world friend just told me, and oh yeah, there’s that job thing. Barf
That is a concern for me as well. Haikus everywhere I look.
Haiku fills my brain
It washes me like the rain
I might not be sane…
(Ha, that one even rhymes)
You ARE good!
Art is my only talent… except love, of course.
Awww- *sniff* the two best talents to have. Except for chainsaw juggling. That’s also quite impressive
Forget the haiku. I just want to read the exchanges between you and pouringmyartout all day. That’s some crazy entertainment there.
Forget the Haiku!!!– But you and your steps were the inspiration Ma-am. Miss Freshly Pressed and all.
I’m working on one. I’ll be back.
Snow in your cold world
Seventy-nine degrees here
Ohio rocks today
I know. Lame. But I went with the season thing. I have to run out and will be back later to try for something better.
Better? Who says I want better? Scrape the bottom of your moldiest barrel my dear. See ya later!
Snow is all melted
Now the sun is out again
Take That! Smarty Pants!
Glad the sun came out. I was on my home from the grocery store, and I started counting syllables on my fingers. “Ohio rocks today” was six syllables. Darn!
Ha ha ha! I’ve been counting on my fingers all day too. Can you believe all the comments? I should do something this stupid more often.
Okay, “better”, “proper” who are you trying to kid? Remember what neighborhood you are in girl. We’re not fancy here like you people in Ohio
I won’t write Haiku
the cookie lure is a lie
look, it is raining
Ha ha! How well you write with ADD. I’m impressed!
It’s a gift
And you are making good use of it. Sorry about the cookies. But, at least I didn’t promise free porn and not deliver again today. I can’t seem to stop the compulsive lying.
Thank you and I forgive you. For the lack of cookies. I’ll eventually get over my disappointment with the whole false lure of free porn thing.
Actually, I think we need free porn Haiku ha ha!
Antoinette? I see you just dropped by, can you help us out with that?
Well, I found my favorite haiku (a Japanese poet Moriya Sen’an)
Bury me when I die
Beneath a wine barrel
in a tavern.
With luck
the cask will leak.
A smutty one:
The crisp autumn leaves
Crinkle underneath my back
You’re all teeth and tongue
GRRRRR!!!!! Thanks! I think this experiment is a sucess! Michele, there’s your free porn.
Up next: internet haiku chapbook.
Thank you for playing along. Not a lot of Haikus today, but definitely a lot of madness! I don’t think I had this many comments when I was Freshly Pressed! Today has been a hoot!
Was I to haiku?
You who drew me to haiku
Will this haiku do?
two thumbs way way up!
Puppy Griffey waits
Where is my dinner at Mom?
Brauts-n-Tots it is.
Ta-da! PS did you make that refrigerator clip art? Hilarious!
Nice one! No I can’t take credit for that refrigerator haiku. It’s been around the interweb for years. I laugh every time I see it. My son found it on Stumble Upon quite a while ago and showed it to me because he knew it was just my speed. Stupid, odd and an inanimate object with a goofy smile. Thanks for playing! Now go tell all your friends!
You bed Tim Robbins
Hubby snoring Illinois
Me eating cheesecake
Maddie you are weird
Guess that’s why you are my pal
I’m in Nebraska
My husband. My husband is out of town. He’s snoring in Illinois while you are in bed with a Tim Robbins look alike. I’m eating cheesecake and watching black and white tv movie with Clark Gable.
Yes, I am weird!!
Gotcha. Sorry. Very crazy day today. My undersized brain can’t process much more. But Tim Robbins is watching World’s Dumbest right now, so now rest for the weirdy
Mine watches that, too. Good night!!
Is there a freshly pressed page for the most entertaining comments?
Not that I’m aware of, but you can always suggest one via twitter at @freshly_pressed ha ha. Glad you enjoyed the comments. As usual, they were far more entertaining than anything I wrote.
Not that I’m aware of, but you can always suggest one via twitter at @freshly_pressed ha ha. Glad you enjoyed the comments. As usual, they were far more entertaining than anything I wrote.
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Just ate licorice
Now bits are stuck on my teeth
Dentist won’t approve
Ha ha! Great! Love it! Thanks!
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