Political Haiku

[MindLikeAParachute]

For some reason, I'm in a Haiku mood.

Haiku is a Japanese poetry form; you can say pretty much anything but you have to conform to the structure, which is three lines - first line has 5 syllables, the next has 7, the last has 5. The 5-7-5 form is the minimum for Haiku.

Of course, elegant Haiku speaks of cherry blossoms and has sublime implications. I'm not looking to be so elegant.

To start:

Impeachment for you!
Mister Bush and nothing less
May you rot in hell


Abu Ghraib Prison
Gitmo too. We are the new
Assholes of the world


Such hypocrisy
Those fucking Republicans
I miss my country


That asshole Karl Rove
Politics take precedence
Over governance


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On edit: Add yours!

[Bluebear]

1. Haiku for Condi

Condoleezza Rice
A token of their esteem
Guilty as the rest.

[annabanana]

2. I love them, but I can't do them...

(jealous sob)

[marions ghost]

5. yours is a haiku...

Haiku: I love them
But I can't do them
Jealous Sob

[annabanana]

8. oh thank you thank you!

How on Earth did I do that?
(really curious)

[marions ghost]

22. easily....

Oh thank you thank you (5)
How on earth did I do that? (7)
Really curious (5)

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You're naturally speaking in approx the right no. of syllables, by my count above anyway. You are
distilling a thought to an essence in 3 lines and your tendency to use short parenthetical asides is working well for you in this. Play with a political thought or other deliberate concept:)

[omega minimo]

24. Possibility

I think she knew that
Having a bit of fun, eh?
Maybe I'm wrong, though.

[marions ghost]

30. I think you're right...

Anabanana
She gets points I think if she
truly suckered me

:)

[intheflow]

3. Coingate haiku

Sneaky November
Ohio unraveling
Hear the drip, drip, drip?

[sweetheart]

4. f

cynically pissed
truth molded into plastic
Dog shit on a plate.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

6. Some ...................

Thieving neocons
stole our country tis of we
Send them to Gitmo

They sent our children
To slay and be slain for lies
The truth will out them

The Village Idiot
Thinks he is an Emperor
The glass crown will break

[omega minimo]

7. Take a Haiku

Dumb word number name
No profile; canned cliches
Got your number, Freep!


:rofl:

[brentspeak]

20. Good work!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[omega minimo]

21. You're 2 kind

They say what they think
We want to hear but phony
Not hard to spot them

The name thing is key
That's how they spot each other
They post in tag team

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

9. Hmm.

I've reviewed this post
and come to the conclusion:
belongs in the lounge.

[marions ghost]

10. hmmm....poetry prejudice?

Tight parameters you have
When content is political
OK for GD

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Hmm

Saying it that way
doesn't necessarily
mean it's really true.

[omega minimo]

14. Read b/w the syllables

Your point well taken
Who can discuss and question
Well in just haiku?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

16. Erm

There are some of us
when prodded with a sharp twig,
who can do just that.

[omega minimo]

19. Hm-mMM?

The challenge being
Conveying clear thinking
Not Yoda we are.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

36. "Not Yoda we are."

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[omega minimo]

37. May the Farce be with you

B-)

[omega minimo]

12. Shortspokeness

In a sound bite world
Good discussion reduced down
To a few words, rocks.


:hide:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

13. Hmm

I only count six
in your second refrain, dude
how's that for a rock?

[omega minimo]

17. Fe-ew

Mind you we all see
Powers of observation
Get in their own way

[Fire Walk With Me]

15. .

"Bring 'em on!" Says Bush.
What good has come from Texas?
Sneers: "Please don't kill me".

[brentspeak]

18. Con man G.O.P.

Con man G.O.P.
"Every man for himself" -
Place in Hell awaits.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

23. PA Haiku

Rick Saintwhorum is
Stuck in the 12th century
Let's just leave him there

[omega minimo]

26. Serf's up!

:rofl: :hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. I Wish they all could be Inquisition girls....

:evilgrin: :hi:

[omega minimo]

28. I'm pickin up mead libations, she's given me this week's rations

How bout Iron Maiden then?

:headbang: :hide:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

29. I don't know about you..

But I find mead evil.

Giddyup giddyup giddyup .... 1209 :P

[omega minimo]

33. Yeah it's vile, honey

Wouldn't it be nice if we were landed
And our clothes were silk
Not rough and brown..............


B-)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

44. And she'll have hun hun hun

Till her daddy sends Atilla awayyyyyy

I shoulda stayed in bed huh ;)

[omega minimo]

47. That's not hunny

It’s the little marauder from Western Asia
It’s the mongol hordes driving out of Persia
Go Ghengis, go Ghengis, go Ghengis go
Got a pretty little vision of world domination
Go Ghengis, go Ghengis, go Ghengis go
But parked in his nomadic camp front yard
Is a brand new battle mad super-stock horde

And everybody’s saying there’s nobody meaner
Than the little marauder from western asia
He drives real fast and he drives real hard
He’s a terror out on all of the old Silk Road

[SalmonChantedEvening]

48. OK OK I give! lol

:D

[omega minimo]

49. Don't wanna go

mead evil on ya
:hide:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

45. delete dupe

[Bouncy Ball]

25. ...

Chimpy does not care
about you or you or you
or the Iraqis.

[intheflow]

38. Another.

Post 9-11
Worldwide compassion squandered
by evil oil barons.

[marions ghost]

31. political one

It's the smoking gun
Or another hard drive replacement
In rural Ohio

[spuddonna]

32. Illusion Gone

Illusion Gone

A rigged election...
An illegal, unjust war...
The press? Mute again.

The 'America'
I knew, rotting from within.
Neocon cancer.

Was it ever real?
Or was it an illusion?
Truth, dead and buried...

They 'frame' the future,
Choose the men to decide laws,
Is justice no more?

[Yupster]

34. Legislative Haiku

No one believes him
His programs just make things worse
But he has the votes

She'll hit the coast hard
The press will trail her non-stop
Typhoon Hillary

[marions ghost]

35. .....

The PR man's rise
To the policy level
The answer to their prayers

[intheflow]

39. Media Whore Haiku

Exit polls are private.
AP hired Mitofsky
But data not public.

[La Coliniere]

40. Two Haiku

Sinking feeling won't go
The War, the jobs, the debt, shit
Chimp's Amurika

EPA is dead
Mercury, arsenic and lead
Erin Brockovich

[lonestarnot]

41. This haiku stuff fun..

Rove, Cheney, bushitler.
freewayblogger on the run
let truth be told now!

Spread the word far, wide
Torture, Contingency Plans
To Nuke Iran next...

When the fly lights on bushitler's
ass me no questions
he says, I won't tell the truth besides

war is my specialty
my rich friends need mo money
so fuck all of yous!


www.freewayblogger.com

[marions ghost]

42. I esp like the 3rd one...

n/t

[lonestarnot]

43. Coingate?

[marions ghost]

46. Any & all gates

"Ass me no questions
I won't tell the truth besides"

=Bush motto in all things (should be in Latin on the family crest)

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haiku speak:

The Great Chimpy smirks
Those who question anything
Are flies to swat down