HAIKU!….GESUNDHEIT!
Pardon me while I celebrate INTERNATIONAL HAIKU POETRY DAY. Haiku, as you know, is a three-line poem of 5, 7, and 5 syllables, which happens to total 17, which happens to be this day of the month, which happens to be INTERNATIONAL I-Already-Told-You-What DAY. So, here are a few lowbrow examples of haiku, guaranteed to ruin your appetite for haiku for the for-eatable future. If you have trouble swallowing any of these, feel free to wash it down with a swig of your favorite beverage, followed by a quart of milk of magnesia. If that doesn’t relieve your groan, you’re on your own.
ONE TOO MANY (syllables)
Excuses may be
easy to make…but they don’t
make up for your mistake.
A NEAR MYTH
Once upon a time
I tried to make a haiku
rhyme. Maybe next time.
HAIKU ON THE HUSTINGS
Politician beams,
waves to crowd of strange faces…
he’s been here before.
Had enough? Believe it or not, it could always be worse:
The Observation Post 
calmkate 1:54 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
lol gave me a laugh your haiku’s and the dictators bragging!
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mistermuse 8:43 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
I had a laugh at the title of that clip: Donald Trump vs. Kim Jong-UN FUNNY
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calmkate 5:34 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink
both of them are far too scary, nothing funny, plenty fishy!
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obbverse 4:22 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Its strange how all that slickly carefully packaged head of hair hides the teeny mind rattling around inside.
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mistermuse 8:46 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
At least he has a teeny mind — he has ZERO character and integrity.
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Rivergirl 7:36 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
With a toddler in the White House, it can always be worse.
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mistermuse 8:49 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
I can’t imagine how….unless he gets re-elected.
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Rivergirl 9:22 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink
Don’t even joke about that!
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masercot 8:02 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
The poet sits taut,
poised to write a haiku but
decides instead that “ehh, free verse is probably a little easier to write”
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mistermuse 8:50 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
You got that write! 😉
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magickmermaid 11:20 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
They are apparently brothers from another mother.
Can’t tell them apart
Reviled almost everywhere
We must overcome.
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mistermuse 2:26 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Well done, mm.
Hopefully, come November, we can tell them apart by virtue of Trump having been voted out of power.
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D. Wallace Peach 11:59 am on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks for starting my day with a grin. Well done!
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mistermuse 2:33 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks, Diana. Since from “blues to haikus” done so well, maybe I should choose to go back to “blues from haikus” in my next post. Or not. 😉
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Rosaliene Bacchus 3:03 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Good try! The video clip brought to mind the haiku poem, “The Insanity of Men,” I wrote at the time.
Dotard & Rocket Man
play nuclear war games
while Frankenstorms rage
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mistermuse 5:49 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
Good one.
I love the “My button also bigger” part of the clip showing Trump’s TWEET and NUKE buttons side by side on his desk. How appropriate for a man drunk (or should I say SICK) with power.
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Susi Bocks 10:35 pm on April 17, 2020 Permalink |
LOL
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Elizabeth 4:10 pm on April 18, 2020 Permalink |
Just saw a wonderful video of Ralph Cramden of the Honeymooners yelling “blabbermouth” at Trump. You would enjoy it. Sorry that I don’t have the link.
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mistermuse 5:33 pm on April 18, 2020 Permalink |
No problem, Elizabeth — thanks for clueing me in:
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annieasksyou 4:13 pm on April 18, 2020 Permalink |
A haiku or three
Well exercises the mind
For more puns and rhymes
A haiku with him
And his tyrannical bro
Cries out soon for Joe
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mistermuse 5:39 pm on April 18, 2020 Permalink |
With six months to go
Until we can vote for Joe
It seems like slow mo….
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annieasksyou 5:42 pm on April 18, 2020 Permalink
I know, I know—oh how I know!
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linnetmoss 4:42 pm on April 20, 2020 Permalink |
I love the rhyming haiku! And the Dictator Twins. Our country has moved into Dr. Strangelove territory, no question.
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mistermuse 5:57 pm on April 20, 2020 Permalink |
Thanks, Linnet. For those who don’t recall Dr. Stgrangelove, here’s the most famous scene from that film:
It is indeed a MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD — not an apocalyptic film, but an aptly titled one nonetheless (see clip from that film in my April 7 post).
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linnetmoss 8:45 am on April 21, 2020 Permalink
That may be the most famous scene, but I think it OUGHT to be one with Peter Sellers.
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mistermuse 11:34 am on April 21, 2020 Permalink |
I think you’re right. Some people may think Sellers is “over the top” in that scene, but that’s the whole idea: it’s MADNESS!!!!
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