Happy National Haiku Poetry Day!

shahnm thought this was worth mentioning said Mon, Apr 16th 2018 at 8:21pm ET

Observed every April 17th.

*From Wikipedia: "A haiku in English is a very short poem in the English language, following to a greater or lesser extent the form and style of the Japanese haiku. A typical haiku is a three-line observation about a fleeting moment involving nature…

Some additional traits are especially associated with English-language haiku (as opposed to Japanese-language haiku):

a three-line format with 17 syllables arranged in a 5–7–5 pattern…
little or no punctuation or capitalization, except that cuts are sometimes marked with dashes or ellipses and proper nouns are usually capitalized"*

Here’s my contribution to this day of serene contemplation and reflection:

                      haiku is bullshit:
                      poetry for idiots
                      who want to sound smart

                                                 --shahnm

Have at it, Mehtizens…

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narfcake said Mon, Apr 16th 2018 at 8:59pm ET:

Fuck - it’s about time!
Fukobukuros have shipped
Soon the trash is ours

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  well done, sir narfcake
  your commentary is wise
  prepare for sadness
  
  shahnm said Mon, Apr 16th 2018 at 9:19pm ET
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  What? No batteries
  Freezing in your Haiku fridge?
  That’s your own fault goat.
  
  Kidsandliz said Mon, Apr 16th 2018 at 11:40pm ET
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  but batteries are
  always chilling in my fridge.
  it’s the only way
  
  shahnm said Mon, Apr 16th 2018 at 11:47pm ET
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  Tanka
  
  Those couch potato
  Freezing fridge batteries are
  Dead of heart attacks.
  
  If not dead of that, they are
  dead of hypothermia.
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:08am ET
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  RIP dear goat
  You’re apparently now dead.
  Kidsandliz offed you
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:11am ET
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  Goat killed batteries
  Froze them to death in the fridge.
  Bring out the squirrels.
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:15am ET
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  please not the squirrels
  they frighten me very much
  fluffy tail, sharp teeth
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:21am ET
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  Narfcake is going
  For Guinness world record.
  Starring every post.
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:29am ET
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  does @narfcake star most
  or is he a close second
  to @f00l’s many stars?
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:37am ET
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  Star every post here?
  Nope; only the ones I read
  Besides, likes are free.
  
  narfcake said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:01am ET
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  Stars beyond stars, and
  Unbounded universes
  Billions and billions.
  
  /giphy stars
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:05am ET
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- @f00l @narfcake @shahnm Or do you mean, to paraphrase you
  
  Words beyond words, and
  Unbounded dictionaries
  Billions and Zillions.
  
  /giphy billions of letters
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:07am ET
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- @f00l @narfcake @shahnm I give up on the giphy -the original one was billions of words but some really inappropriate things came up…
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:09am ET
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- Billions of words
  Inappropriate things
  Call it the internet.
  
  aetris said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 8:19am ET
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Pony said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:10am ET:

I enjoy a good haiku
bad haiku can be fun too
But this is Senryu, yo.

(Senryu is what you get when you make Haiku with no nature in it. So if it’s about people places and things that aren’t cherry blossoms or fish ponds, etc, it ain’t Haiku.)

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  The American
  haiku takes some liberties.
  Unlike Japanese.
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:13am ET
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  What we SendrYou off
  To the dictionary. Yes?
  Haiku is fuku?
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:18am ET
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  Over the river
  And through the woods, and off to
  Bed I go. Night shade.
  
  (So a pun that includes a plant now makes it haiku. Right?)
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:24am ET
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  Yay, America
  bastardizing anything
  its grubby paws touch
  
  Okay, so I’m a little snooty about Haiku/Senryu. They are my favorite form of poetry, and one of the most abused by people who don’t know the “rules” of writing them. I’ll go back to my corner and shut up now.
  
  Pony said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:31am ET
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  Come play. Only write real ones that put the rest of us to shame.
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:34am ET
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  I meant no offense
  When I called haiku bullshit.
  It’s just that it sucks.
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:40am ET
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  America takes
  The best crap from far places
  And makes it better…
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:43am ET
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  Fake haiku? Wonder!.
  How many syllables in
  Senryu? More wonder!
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:07am ET
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- @Kidsandliz I am too sick and stressed out to play. I shouldn’t have said anything.
  
  Pony said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 8:23am ET
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- @Pony
  
  Amid sickness and
  Stress come images tranquil
  Leaves floating to ground.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:06am ET
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- @Pony Hope you feel better sooner rather than later (and that your taxes are already done!!).
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 10:53am ET
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f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:44am ET:

I think that I will
Never see a billboard as
Lovely as a tree.

Perhaps, unless the
Billboards fall I’ll never see
A tree at all. STOP

Ogden Nash

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  Oops.
  
  Should be:
  
  “I think that I shall”
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:52am ET
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mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:47am ET:

I’ve no fraks to give
about this day or the next.
… and so say we all.

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  Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
  Fucking motherfucker fuck
  Fucker fucker fuck.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:50am ET
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  Such language you have
  shat forth upon the aether.
  Erudition lost.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 1:28am ET
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  Erudition Lost
  and Erudition Found are
  both beyond my ken.
  
  : (
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 3:24am ET
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mehcuda67 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 2:12am ET:

@Pony
One deal per day site-
Even trolls need to sleep now
No time for haiku

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  Wait- who is the troll?
  I am just an old lady
  Now I am confused
  
  Pony said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 8:16am ET
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  No need for dismay
  Strange creatures write in moonlight
  Ponys are not Trolls
  
  mehcuda67 said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:23am ET
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alphapeaches said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 5:30am ET:

Was geht, ihr Penner
Wenn einer das hier versteht
Sagt bitte bescheid

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  Penner hier?
  Ich kenne keine,
  aber viele verrückte Leute.
  
  aetris said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 8:44am ET
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  ¿Qué pasa, cabron?
  Si alguien entiende,
  Házmelo saber.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 8:55am ET
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  Ig-pay Atin-lay,
  Anguage-lay asting-lay,
  Agnificent-may!
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:12am ET
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- @alphapeaches @f00l @mike808 -
  
  Quid dictum est
  de poetica praecepta?
  Et mittent eos.
  
  aetris said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:32am ET
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  Frange praecepta.
  Qui sciens poetica
  habet praecepta?
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:44am ET
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- Not Me Not Me Me
  Not Me Not Me Not Me Me
  Not Me Not Me Not
  
  aetris said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:59am ET
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- @aetris @mike808
  
  Gallia est om-
  Nis divisa in partes
  Tres, quarum unam
  
  Incolunt Belgae,
  Aliam Aquitani,
  tertiam qui ip-
  
  Sorum lingua Cel-
  Tae, nostra Galli appel-
  Lantur. - Julius
  
  Caesar has used up
  The small remains of high school
  Latin left in brain.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 10:07am ET
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  01101001 01110011 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01100001 01110011 00100000 01110000 01101100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101101 01100101
  
  01000001 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101111 01110100 01101000 01100101 01110010 00100000 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100100 01110011
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:43pm ET
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  I’d be impressed if
  your binary haiku was
  more than translation.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 4:37pm ET
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PocketBrain said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 6:45am ET:

I don’t like Haiku.
Counting syllables is dumb.
I would rather not.

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  And yet you did, still.
  Next time, do not be quite so
  disingenuous.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:07am ET
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  But surely the form
  Of syllables in the lines -
  Is coincidence?
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:14am ET
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  How can that be true?
  That is just rediculous.
  Words don’t write themselves.
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:39am ET
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  Writer of the verse
  About “Coincidence” has
  Forgotten to wink.
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:42am ET
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- @f00l @PocketBrain
  By “coincidence”,
  you meant the co-wink-i-dink
  pronunciation?
  
  mike808 said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 9:48am ET
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  “Co-wink-i-dink” might
  Imply erudition or
  Intention. Oh my!
  
  f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 10:09am ET
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  all of these insults
  are appropriate, you see.
  blathering of fools…
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:46pm ET
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  Haiku, Limerick
  Both must count their syllables
  But one has more fun
  
  mehcuda67 said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:38am ET
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  Says the man from Nantucket …
  
  mike808 said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 2:43am ET
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  Holy cow dudes you
  took the ball and ran with it.
  I cannot compete.
  
  PocketBrain said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 1:46pm ET
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  Listen one and all:
  There is no need to compete.
  Just enjoy the fun.
  
  shahnm said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 2:47pm ET
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medz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 10:11am ET:

I like chocolate
delightfully rich and sweet
oh, that is just poop

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  there is another
  topic about this elsewhere…
  this is not the place
  
  shahnm said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:47pm ET
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f00l said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 10:13am ET:

(stolen or borrowed)

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narfcake said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 12:19pm ET:

A long time has passed
More than a day since tagging
@snapster and catshirts

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  And yet once again
  @snapster does not answer
  Sad. No meh cat shirts.
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 5:42pm ET
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  I won’t be surprised
  If a filter has been set
  Ignore term: catshirt
  
  Easy workaround
  ¡Camisetas con gatos!
  Translate it, @snapster.
  
  narfcake said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 7:11pm ET
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medz said Tue, Apr 17th 2018 at 5:18pm ET:

time is not a thing
nothing is really alive
what is the damn point

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  what is the damn point
  
  Something on the top
  Of your head or skull. Does your
  hair cover it all?
  
  f00l said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:09am ET
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duodec said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:21am ET:

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- Haiku has purpose
  A forced discipline of words
  reticence required.
  
  Twitter once restrained
  neverending blathering,
  Haiku yammers not.
  
  Man from Nantucket
  Cash stolen in a bucket
  A bad man and Nan
  
  MGB-GT
  A fun to drive rust bucket
  Spitfires were better
  
  So Haiku blathers
  Doggerel by any name
  Intrudes even here.
  
  duodec said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:43am ET
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  What’s your point, Meh friend?
  You’ve said so many words here,
  And yet not a thing…
  
  shahnm said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 1:27am ET
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  And yet things unsaid
  When spoken as a haiku
  Can sound erudite
  
  Would you have listened
  About MGB-GT
  Rusting to pieces?
  
  Or perhaps now know
  That an ancient limerick
  Could be condensed so?
  
  So, much has been said
  Despite your lack of notice
  And my botched first verse.
  
  Yet still I thank you.
  This exercise can be fun
  Like Pirate Talk day.
  
  duodec said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:03pm ET
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  This day is over.
  Time to find something else now.
  It’s time to move on…
  
  shahnm said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:15pm ET
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  So let it be done
  Move on from our haiku fun
  At a goat’s request.
  
  duodec said Wed, Apr 18th 2018 at 12:51pm ET
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