How 'bout the first ever DU Haiku Poetry Slam?

[auburngrad82]

Remember the format, 5 syllables, then 7 syllables, then 5 syllables.

I'll start:

When I was a child
Monsters lived under my bed.
Oh, to be a child.

[MercutioATC]

1. Now I have grown up.

Monsters live in the White House.
Oh, to be a child.

[auburngrad82]

2. The Crawford Cowboy

The man's afraid of horses!
All Hat, no Cattle!

[Poll_Blind]

3. A single star in the night

In this nation's night,
There is a pole star shining
Light the path, D. U.

PB

[Yupster]

4. I'm game

Thunder in DC
Mighty rain pours from heaven
George Washington's tears.

[peekaloo]

5. .

month long vacation
fourteen more funerals he
won't have to attend

[trackfan]

6. When I was a kid

we never, ever wore shoes
on hot summer days.

[Dora]

25. That's beautiful!

[trackfan]

30. Thank you!

[Richardo]

7. August Vacation

Poll numbers are low
Month-long vacation beckons
Remember '01?

[Splatter Phoenix]

8. Concerning last night's retrogression

Fundie old bag-face
The wicked-Schmidt is empowered
Get out your Bibles. :D

[WeRQ4U]

9. Stolen Election

Nazis on capital hill
Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck.

[Splatter Phoenix]

10. I commend you

Whitman would be jealous.

[WeRQ4U]

11. Why thank you. He is my inspiration. lol

[Aristus]

12. Woodward and Bernstein

Once brought down a President
Not anymore, though

[Shell Beau]

13. Okay:

Too long of a time
That we all will have to wait
To bring our boys home

[Zomby Woof]

14. We've had 'em before

We've had every kind of poetry slam on DU, including haikus.

[SOteric]

22. Yes, indeed we have.

:hi:

[trackfan]

15. In the midwest, are

certain weeds still referred to
as "penny stealers"?

[trackfan]

16. Bad wood? No good. Stand

tall, don't crawl! Go back before
it's dark. Cut more. More!

[trackfan]

17. I'm at work, and bored.

This gives me something to do.
Don't let this thread die.

[EstimatedProphet]

18. John Bolton at the U.-

John Bolton, U.N. Ambass-
Yuck! I can't say it!

[jane_pippin]

19. I've got a few:

i. "G-SAVE"

Your semantic shift
changes nothing. Is this twice?
Won't get fooled again.

ii. "Primate Behavior"

Distraction abounds.
Vacation days are calling.
Chimps use sticks for tools.


iii. "Meedja, Get to Work"

I don't care about
Brad, Jen, Jacko, or Hiltons.
I want real news now.


iv. "DU Blues"

Posting on DU.
Am I a masochist?
Silence: Deafening.

[tigereye]

32. those were excellent!

I love themes.

[auburngrad82]

20. Here's another one

Steroids in my blood?
I don't know how they got there...
500 homers!

[auburngrad82]

21. New York Yankee Fan

New York Yankee Fan:
"What do you mean he was out???
Um-pyah, you suck!"

[SarahB]

23. ok

Lay on your pillow
To smell your lingering scent
I sleep so well.

[Pale Blue Dot]

24. Kick

You aced your math test
By finding a way to add
To infinite love

or...

Practice with the kids
Two hours in our lawn chairs
This must be heaven

[AlGore-08.com]

26. Baby panda cam

Science and nature as one
The best of D.C.

[UrbScotty]

27. I like Karl Rove.

I think he is so sexy.
Oh, wait... no sex threads.

Ha ha ha ha ha.
Did I fool anyone here?
If so,you lose. Ha!

[trackfan]

28. My dog is pretty

He is smart, and brown, and white.
I love him a lot.

[tigereye]

29. cool

Ben finds the Beats

I
My kid, his first plane
trip out to San Francisco
three hour time diff-rence

II
Sleep evades him still
he runs on airport track legs
can't stop him growing

III
Stillness not found yet
His movements in the plane seat
Wish he could be still

IV
Six hundred pictures
Digital chronicle of
my need to find Beats

[auburngrad82]

31. Feeding time

Softly he nickers.
It's feeding time at the barn.
Where's my oats, he asks?

[tigereye]

33. thanks for this thread Aubgrad!

:hi:

[Sabriel]

34. I mark the ballot.

Frustration overwhelms me.
Democracy dies.

[BeTheChange]

35. Mine....

Life always moving.
Memory softly fleeting,
Of days before this.

[malmapus]

36. Here ya go

Cold wind blows at me
From the ocean west it came
What secrets it keeps