Haiku for this last day of DU's primary debate

Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:22 AM

awake (3,226 posts)

1. Here is one

The primary is over
Bernie's issues take root
We all are winners

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:22 AM

flor-de-jasmim (2,047 posts)

2. Let's see...

Issues still remain
Democrat, democratic
What will be, will be

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:24 AM

randome (34,845 posts)

3. How about, to honor your namesake: "I'll gouge your eyes out!"

Sorry, couldn't help myself. It's still meant to be in fun, though.

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Response to randome (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

Shemp Howard (889 posts)

6. Moe said that, not Shemp!

This will give you an idea about how old I am. I met Moe Howard once, and had a nice little talk with him. He was a real gentleman. Didn't try to poke me in the eyes, or anything!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Reply #6)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:45 AM

randome (34,845 posts)

11. Damn! Got me on a technicality!

You're lucky to have met Moe.

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Response to Shemp Howard (Reply #6)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:06 PM

Cooley Hurd (26,877 posts)

14. Moe was, by every account, a very nice fellow!

So was Jerry (Curly) - who took in every stray dog that he came across.

I LOVE the Howards!!!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:31 AM

Evergreen Emerald (13,003 posts)

4. Ok, I will try:

The first woman won
fair and square, now onto trump
with big lies and big hair

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Response to Evergreen Emerald (Reply #4)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:32 AM

mcar (40,330 posts)

5. Winner!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:33 AM

LWolf (46,179 posts)

7. Okay.

Divided party
Two different directions
Distance grows forward

Leaving behind the
Establishment politics
Its revolution

Values betrayed make
the partisan betrayers
the worst enemies

It's not about her
It never was, then or now
It is about us

Dissent not silenced
Even if censored right here
It's still everywhere

I could go on all day.

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:57 AM

Scuba (53,475 posts)

12. + Eighty gazillion

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:15 PM

Miles Archer (18,581 posts)

15. ^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^

Because it's not about her. It may be about her tomorrow on this site, but everywhere else, it will still not be about her.

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:27 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

22. +10,000 nt

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:42 PM

MrMickeysMom (20,453 posts)

27. ^^^^ WINNER ^^^^^

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:42 PM

Silver_Witch (1,820 posts)

28. Congrats!!! Excellent!

I can't write Haiku and I am glad you can!!

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:29 AM

jillan (39,451 posts)

42. Nice!!

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Response to LWolf (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:31 AM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

55. Very good. nm

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:35 AM

upaloopa (11,417 posts)

8. This was never a debate. The "facts" were never facts.

The Hillary Bernie folks invented never existed. The voter fraud never existed. The DNC did not rig the primary.

Bernie Bros were real. The on line polls after the debate were not real polls.

Bernie folks stole data from the campaign data base. Bernie faked endorsements from the Pope, a union in Los Vegas, many news papers, many individuals.

The Bernie rallies did not translate into votes.

Bernie never won the support of minorities. His campaign was most supported by privileged white liberals.

Millennials mostly went for free tuition. They were never about the down trodden working class.

Bernie lost the popular vote, the pledged delegate count, the super delegate count and the number primary states yet he and his side will never concede.

Bernie was supported by the right because they felt he was the the easiest candidate to defeat in the general.

Hillary won fairly because more people want her to be president than want Bernie.

Some of the things I take away from the 2016 primary.

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:38 AM

Shemp Howard (889 posts)

9. I'm no expert, but that's not haiku.

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Response to Shemp Howard (Reply #9)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:28 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

23. LOL That is just what I was going to say. Not the least bit poetic. nt

Last edited Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:40 PM - Edit history (1)

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:17 PM

Whimsey (236 posts)

21. Everything you wrote

is spot on.

Youth struggles for change
Age remembers those struggles
Experience counts

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:44 PM

MrMickeysMom (20,453 posts)

29. I guess you didn't read the OP...

Looks like the usual pablum.

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:48 PM

Silver_Witch (1,820 posts)

31. Typical Hillary supporter - breaking the rules...

And not creative...that is not Haiku...that is just a rant!

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:43 AM

pinebox (5,761 posts)

46. The facts were never the facts?

Hillary not under an FBI investigation? NOT FACTUAL!

Hillary doesn't support a living wage? NOT FACTUAL!

Hillary doesn't support universal heath care? NOT FACTUAL!

Hillary voted for Iraq? NOT FACTUAL!

The Clinton foundation did dirty weapon deals with Saudi Arabia? NOT FACTUAL!

Hillary said she took sniper fire? NOT FACTUAL!

On and on but hey, you don't care to believe it at all do you? I wonder though, "Bernie was supported by the right because they felt he was the the easiest candidate to defeat in the general" despite all polls showing him beating Trump by larger margins and a lot less dirt on him than the decades worth on Hillary who is one of, if not thee most polarizing figure in all of politics?

No, the reason Hillary won is quite clear. Your primary system is rigged where only a select few can few, not everybody, and now you come crawling to us indies begging for our help in a GE?

Have fun with that.

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:35 AM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

56. George Orwell would love your post. War is Peace reflects the ultimate denial. nm

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Response to upaloopa (Reply #8)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 10:23 AM

Bluenorthwest (45,319 posts)

65. Haiku-

Reagan-not an AIDS hero
He started no discussion.
Gay people did that.

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:42 AM

HereSince1628 (36,063 posts)

10. Gibran-esque wisdom: "The joy of winning requires using FEAR in running."

As in Fear TRUMP!!!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:30 PM

Fozzledick (3,801 posts)

16. Here's a koan about division

Nansen Cuts the Cat in Two

Nansen saw the monks of the eastern and western halls fighting over a cat. He seized the cat and told the monks: `If any of you say a good word, you can save the cat.'

(Poster's note: "good word" as used here means a sign of enlightenment)

No one answered. So Nansen boldly cut the cat in two pieces.

That evening Joshu returned and Nansen told him about this. Joshu removed his sandals and, placing them on his head, walked out.

Nansen said: `If you had been there, you could have saved the cat.'

Mumon's Comment: Why did Joshu put his sandals on his head? If anyone answers this question, he will understand exactly how Nansen enforced the edict. If not, he should watch his own head.

Had Joshu been there,
He would have enforced the edict oppositely.

http://www.ibiblio.org/zen/gateless-gate/14.html
Joshua snatches the sword
And Nansen begs for his life.

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 12:40 PM

Vattel (9,289 posts)

17. Here is mine:

The young tried and failed
Now we choose the hawk or loon
Wake up, citizens!

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Response to Vattel (Reply #17)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:29 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

24. +10,000 nt

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 03:35 PM

Tarc (10,330 posts)

18. Ok, try this one out

The old man has lost,
primaries and caucuses.
What remains? Fart-ins.

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Response to Tarc (Reply #18)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 04:44 PM

Shemp Howard (889 posts)

19. Sorry, you broke the rules.

From the original post: "Feel free to contribute your own. But nothing mean-spirited or preachy, please!"

So, unfortunately, you are ineligible for the big haiku prize I might (or might not) be awarding here.

Stay sharp though. I plan another haiku posting when the general election gets closer.

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Response to Tarc (Reply #18)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:39 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

39. For you:

A truly rude post
is nothing to boast about
Silence becomes you.

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Response to Live and Learn (Reply #39)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:21 AM

Tarc (10,330 posts)

45. You are so cute that I decided to do another

Whither Bernie fans;
the Radical Jack of Pines?
Or, mature, remain?

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:07 PM

Donkees (27,440 posts)

20. *

what's first is alas
past, and prologue to discourse
tomorrow, of course

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:37 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

25. Here is mine:

This day will soon pass
Her followers will remain
JPR will gain

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:39 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

26. DNC

Exposed to the light
DNC tries to cover
its shame but it fails.

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Response to Live and Learn (Reply #26)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:47 PM

MrMickeysMom (20,453 posts)

30. Damn!

Two great ones, within two minutes!

Before I voted
I read a history book
Bernie's FDR!

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Response to MrMickeysMom (Reply #30)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:20 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

35. Love yours too. nt

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:52 PM

HarmonyRockets (397 posts)

32. Not a Haiku, but here is my submission

Bernie has been beat
Watch his supporters stomp their feet
But while her supporters do nothing but grin
Watch his supporters carry out the great Philadelphia Fart-In

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Response to HarmonyRockets (Reply #32)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:22 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

36. You are right, not haiku. nt

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:00 PM

k8conant (3,010 posts)

33. Uprising:

From the ground he flew
like a phoenix, forever
perched upon our souls.

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Response to k8conant (Reply #33)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:23 PM

Live and Learn (12,769 posts)

38. Love it. nt

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:13 PM

YouDig (2,280 posts)

34. Good idea. Mine:

I will vote for her
I sure hope that you will too
Too much is at stake

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 10:23 PM

ismnotwasm (40,909 posts)

37. Hmm.

HER revolution
WE form the future in a
Thousand glass pieces

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Response to ismnotwasm (Reply #37)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:07 AM

brer cat (20,337 posts)

52. Nice, ism. nt

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:06 AM

xloadiex (628 posts)

40. mine

I welcome you all
Hillary supporters to
My full ignore list

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:18 AM

laserhaas (7,805 posts)

41. I have a better one

It be she
Not we
C'est la vie

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:32 AM

jillan (39,451 posts)

43. Here's mine

The Echo Chamber will remain
All the posts will be the same

Dissent will be silenced again.

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Response to jillan (Reply #43)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 12:55 AM

Shemp Howard (889 posts)

44. That's not in traditional form, but I like it anyway!

7-7-7, interesting!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:45 AM

pinebox (5,761 posts)

47. Here's mine

In a race between tweedle dee and tweedle dumb
More Americans will wind up in a slum
While Washington gets rich
America is finally starting to bitch.

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Response to pinebox (Reply #47)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:48 AM

Tarc (10,330 posts)

48. Oh pinebox

12
11
6
12

Not eve remotely in haiku form.

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Response to Tarc (Reply #48)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:53 AM

pinebox (5,761 posts)

49. My give a flying fuck flew

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Response to pinebox (Reply #49)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 07:59 AM

Tarc (10,330 posts)

50. I has a sad

Pinebox did not want.
But, nay! It has, at long last.
Hill wins, thus is crowned.

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Response to Tarc (Reply #50)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:04 AM

pinebox (5,761 posts)

51. Corruption wins

She’s got the courage,
the compassion and the heart
to get the job done
But only if you're Walmart
In the the land of the setting sun.

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Response to pinebox (Reply #51)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:11 AM

LWolf (46,179 posts)

53. Did corruption win?

Her symbolic win
while revolution goes on
right beneath her throne

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Response to Tarc (Reply #50)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:44 AM

laserhaas (7,805 posts)

58. Um

He
We
Bernie

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:25 AM

mia (8,170 posts)

54. Dream on.

Owners are winners,
No matter who wins the race.
Just get used to it.

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Response to mia (Reply #54)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:46 AM

rhett o rick (55,981 posts)

59. I'll give it a go.

As the Powers That Be tighten the noose,
I see the flowers of democracy returning

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Response to rhett o rick (Reply #59)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 10:41 AM

mia (8,170 posts)

66. flowers

As the noose tightens
Glimpses of the afterlife
Change our points of view

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:40 AM

SidDithers (44,228 posts)

57. ...

The losers complain
and the winners celebrate
it was ever thus

Sid

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:47 AM

betsuni (21,637 posts)

60. ...

Summer solstice moon
Floats into the dark night sky
Fuck Republicans

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Response to betsuni (Reply #60)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 10:20 AM

PeaceNikki (27,985 posts)

64. This one's my favorite

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 08:51 AM

Hortensis (55,009 posts)

61. 5-7-5, moment of insight.

Fifteen step forward,
Democrats quarrel and vote -
Democracy wins!

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Response to Shemp Howard (Original post)

Mon Jun 20, 2016, 10:16 AM

Sheepshank (12,504 posts)

63. One try

courts must have reason
elections direct our lives
Trump impotency

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
Haiku for this last day of DU's primary debate (Original post)	Shemp Howard	Jun 2016	OP
Here is one	awake	Jun 2016	#1
Let's see...	flor-de-jasmim	Jun 2016	#2
How about, to honor your namesake: "I'll gouge your eyes out!"	randome	Jun 2016	#3
Moe said that, not Shemp!	Shemp Howard	Jun 2016	#6
Damn! Got me on a technicality!	randome	Jun 2016	#11
Moe was, by every account, a very nice fellow!	Cooley Hurd	Jun 2016	#14
Ok, I will try:	Evergreen Emerald	Jun 2016	#4
Winner!	mcar	Jun 2016	#5
Okay.	LWolf	Jun 2016	#7
+ Eighty gazillion	Scuba	Jun 2016	#12
^^^^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^^^^	Miles Archer	Jun 2016	#15
+10,000 nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#22
^^^^ WINNER ^^^^^	MrMickeysMom	Jun 2016	#27
Congrats!!! Excellent!	Silver_Witch	Jun 2016	#28
Nice!!	jillan	Jun 2016	#42
Very good. nm	rhett o rick	Jun 2016	#55
This was never a debate. The "facts" were never facts.	upaloopa	Jun 2016	#8
I'm no expert, but that's not haiku.	Shemp Howard	Jun 2016	#9
This message was self-deleted by its author	nolabear	Jun 2016	#13
LOL That is just what I was going to say. Not the least bit poetic. nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#23
Everything you wrote	Whimsey	Jun 2016	#21
I guess you didn't read the OP...	MrMickeysMom	Jun 2016	#29
Typical Hillary supporter - breaking the rules...	Silver_Witch	Jun 2016	#31
The facts were never the facts?	pinebox	Jun 2016	#46
George Orwell would love your post. War is Peace reflects the ultimate denial. nm	rhett o rick	Jun 2016	#56
Haiku-	Bluenorthwest	Jun 2016	#65
Gibran-esque wisdom: "The joy of winning requires using FEAR in running."	HereSince1628	Jun 2016	#10
Here's a koan about division	Fozzledick	Jun 2016	#16
Here is mine:	Vattel	Jun 2016	#17
+10,000 nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#24
This message was self-deleted by its author	Sheepshank	Jun 2016	#62
Ok, try this one out	Tarc	Jun 2016	#18
Sorry, you broke the rules.	Shemp Howard	Jun 2016	#19
For you:	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#39
You are so cute that I decided to do another	Tarc	Jun 2016	#45
*	Donkees	Jun 2016	#20
Here is mine:	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#25
DNC	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#26
Damn!	MrMickeysMom	Jun 2016	#30
Love yours too. nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#35
Not a Haiku, but here is my submission	HarmonyRockets	Jun 2016	#32
You are right, not haiku. nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#36
Uprising:	k8conant	Jun 2016	#33
Love it. nt	Live and Learn	Jun 2016	#38
Good idea. Mine:	YouDig	Jun 2016	#34
Hmm.	ismnotwasm	Jun 2016	#37
Nice, ism. nt	brer cat	Jun 2016	#52
mine	xloadiex	Jun 2016	#40
I have a better one	laserhaas	Jun 2016	#41
Here's mine	jillan	Jun 2016	#43
That's not in traditional form, but I like it anyway!	Shemp Howard	Jun 2016	#44
Here's mine	pinebox	Jun 2016	#47
Oh pinebox	Tarc	Jun 2016	#48
My give a flying fuck flew	pinebox	Jun 2016	#49
I has a sad	Tarc	Jun 2016	#50
Corruption wins	pinebox	Jun 2016	#51
Did corruption win?	LWolf	Jun 2016	#53
Um	laserhaas	Jun 2016	#58
Dream on.	mia	Jun 2016	#54
I'll give it a go.	rhett o rick	Jun 2016	#59
flowers	mia	Jun 2016	#66
...	SidDithers	Jun 2016	#57
...	betsuni	Jun 2016	#60
This one's my favorite	PeaceNikki	Jun 2016	#64
5-7-5, moment of insight.	Hortensis	Jun 2016	#61
One try	Sheepshank	Jun 2016	#63