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Clinton broken heart haiku
loved your strength last fall
winter came, you turned evil
spring is here: please leave
winter came, you turned evil
spring is here: please leave
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rotflmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omg why am i in tears????? its totally accurate but the fact it is a haiku just has me rollin
May 10, 2008 2:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
We can do this all weekend!
Vote for me! I'm white!
I'm not like that other guy!
Mr. Half-and-half!
I am no bigot.
All I do is tell the truth.
More white votes than black.
Please count ALL the votes.
'Cept the ones from caucus states
Or those pesky blacks!
May 10, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
vote for me. I will Unify. I will unify my race by radical hate mongering on AA radios.
I will saturate the web with hate mongering toward Hillary Clinton.
This will unify my race, and college kids too lazy to take the
time to research how very little I have done in 46 years, and
how hard HRC has worked for legislation such as the recent
child car safety act.
But if your child dies a bloody death in a car accident because HRC had never worked on that bill, what do we care.
Obama is smooth.
And smoothness is good.
May 10, 2008 10:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can't write haiku.
I just spew some rambling bile
That nobody reads.
May 11, 2008 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, no . . . it has to feel like a haiku.
They get taught in elementary school as just 5 - 7 - 5.
But a haiku should have a sense of stillness, and an extremely quiet moment of insight. Often a seasonal reference as well.
Mario's example was excellent. Mine will suck, but it's an effort to push us back toward the necessary pathos
Fall of ninety-two:
Your headband stood for candor.
Put it on again.
May 10, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
This did have that sublime quality that beauty needs-- strangeness.
May 10, 2008 10:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alex:
Don't get all Postmodern on us! :)
Clinton 'Living Tree'....
See the White buds sprout and bloom...
As the Brown leaves fall....
May 10, 2008 6:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gave so much, but took
All. Power is not taken.
Time for them to go.
May 10, 2008 6:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with Alex. There's gotta be a broken heart in there somewhere, or it ain't a Clinton-broken-heart-haiku.
Discarded photo:
Proud, next to George McGovern
A wide smile, glasses.
A young girl's ideals
Sold to feed her vanity
In November snows.
May 10, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
The discarded photo is very nice.
May 10, 2008 10:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry. Make that
A young girl's ideals,
Sold to feed her vanity
In New Hampshire snows.
May 10, 2008 6:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ask any river;
Life moves forward, not backward.
Leaves fall down, not up.
May 10, 2008 6:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agrippina - Very nice. Naturalistic.
May 10, 2008 7:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Even gentle streams...
Bear dark currents 'neath their wavess...
Those who wade in, drown.
May 10, 2008 7:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eight Belles favorite
Big Brown winner, filly hurt
euthanasia
May 10, 2008 7:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks. Coffee on screen.
Chilled nose dripping and achy.
Wipe it off fast. Thanks!
May 11, 2008 12:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
'It takes a village'
'It takes white people, not black'
soul of woman died
May 10, 2008 7:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Commander In Chief
threshold crossed, me and McCain
experience lies
May 10, 2008 7:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wade, I like Underwood's best, but thanks.
Like a falling leaf
Caught between past and present,
Praying for a gust.
May 10, 2008 7:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Black spongy stallion
aligned at the weeded gate.
Bookies, place your bets.
May 10, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
It takes a village
But only one Hillary
To slice hope in two
May 10, 2008 8:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Apologies DaddyD. Didn't see your first line til after I posted... Not trying to plagiarize. :)
May 10, 2008 8:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's OK. I'm an Obamabot - I love plagiarism!
May 11, 2008 12:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Early blooming rose.....
Wilts under the winds of war........
Only thorns remain
May 10, 2008 9:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eminence front walks
The path narrows around her
Darkened sky descends
May 10, 2008 9:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
War from sea to sea
Blinded to the real struggle
Eviscerated
May 10, 2008 9:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Let go of the wheel;
Our designated driver
Steers back for your soul.
May 10, 2008 9:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
History tells you
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hubris spares none
May 10, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Bush nightmare
Nearly over
A dove calls in the distance
May 10, 2008 9:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Spring is eternal
Summer on; the halcyon days
The fall bittersweet
May 10, 2008 9:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
A lifetime spent
Dreaming of greatness
You will not be the first
May 10, 2008 10:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary for shame
Stillness happens as we wait
Spring mud season gone
May 10, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Inevitable
passion evaporated in spring
looming afterthought
May 10, 2008 10:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doh! Lemme try that again
Inevitable
passion evaporated
Looming afterthought
May 10, 2008 10:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Running on empty
Her supporters breathless hold
Tattered signs aloft
May 10, 2008 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pander to the worst
Idealism springs forth
Even Media can learn
May 10, 2008 10:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
Campaign breaks foul wind
fingers point Penn or Ickes?
voters run from smell
May 10, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
victory at dawn
then afternoon skirmishes
bring irrelevance
May 10, 2008 10:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Clinton in Carhartts
whisky shot, blue collar gal
who are you kidding?
May 10, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent, excellent haiku efforts! It is a nice change to see our opinions and perspectives expressed in poetry. Seems to allow us a much needed break from the heat of the "battle."
May 10, 2008 11:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Herbendorf:
Perhaps you should look up the definition of 'haiku'.
None of yours qualify. :)
Haiku syllables....
Number five, seven, then five.......
Otherwise they fail.
May 10, 2008 11:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Obstructing justice
Where are those billing records?
Some knew all along.
May 10, 2008 11:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
mockingbird plummets
hope not allowed to whither
spring regenerates
May 10, 2008 11:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since Pennsylvania
Devoid of any dignity
Incessant Pander
May 11, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
Got-a-life where art...
thou? You're my flying monkey...
Play the white card hon...
May 11, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary Clinton
This election not for you.
Go home now. Okay?
May 11, 2008 12:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Play the race card Hil?
Karl Rove has taught you well.
Welcome to Dark Side.
May 11, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a wonderful thread. I so appreciate all the creative Ha-i-ku (three syllables in Japanese). But "real" poetry doesn't have to confine itself to ephemeral, ineffable Zen emptiness. It can also handle proper polemics when the need arises. Like when Deputy Dubya Bush finally made it to Vietnam (too late for the fighting and dying, of course) only to insult his hosts by informing them that they should not have won their independence from our bloody bungling in their country over many decades. This Vietnam Veteran took that obtuse performance poorly and wrote:
"Hanoi Haiku"
In Hanoi at last
Red-carpet in return for
Our carpet-bombing
The words no one heard,
Due so many years after:
"We apologize"
Deputy Dubya
Sheriff Cheney's Barney Fife
Lost in Mayberry
Gullible Goofy
The boy who cried Wolfowitz
Far too many times
Emerald City
Naked ruler's brand new clothes
Viewed through glasses green
Mission Accomplished!
A cakewalk in its last throes
Now a glacier race
Four Years an "instant"
Nothing happens right away
What did you expect?
Broken-egg omelets
George Orwell's Catastrophic
Gradualism
Shop till the troops drop
Buy a plane ticket or two
Your part in the "war"
Rob the future now
They will never break our will
Those grandkids of ours
Lecture the victors
About their First and Second
Indochina Wars
Where did we get him?
How come we can't do better?
We look so stupid
Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright 2006
May 11, 2008 12:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
I took some liberties with the syllable structure in the last line:
May 11, 2008 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
D'oh. Stupid formatting.
An edit function
Would be oh so very nice
Bad formatting sucks.
May 11, 2008 2:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's excellent news
Idiotic would tell us.
It's new every time.
May 11, 2008 2:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Cherry blossoms bloom
Soon, they will wither and fade
Each thing in its time
May 11, 2008 3:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hoping for the rain
To dash his hopeful dreaming
Tears fall from your eyes
May 11, 2008 3:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Winds sweep the spring sky
Petals swirl in small eddies
There were better days
May 11, 2008 3:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
This one's for the other Clinton:
White hair, charming smile
He winks at the audience
Dogwhistles to race
May 11, 2008 3:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
Last fall there were rules
Hillary agreed to them
she likes change now too.
May 11, 2008 4:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Shouldn't forget Chelsea!
------------------------
You seem seasonless
lost surrogate, eyes trailing
the mother you aren't
What questions whisper
in cold calculating rooms
do you know elsewhere?
May 11, 2008 4:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Here's an offering from an American in Tokyo, with a koan tossed in:
Spring stage, winter play
Sound of one hand clapping
Clinton's curtain call
May 11, 2008 6:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
The vacuum of space
A perfect Zen emptiness
Kind of hard to breathe
But not to worry
Bad things must pass in due time
Just not You-Know-Her
May 11, 2008 8:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
HRC Before the Deerhunters
A shot and a beer.
Hang up more flags, the end's near.
Look! Now I'm a deer!
May 11, 2008 8:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Your state doesn't count
We know better than you
Powerpoint proves all
May 11, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rainy Mother's Day
Brings tidings - words like children
Not tended - Backfire
May 11, 2008 10:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
Pirate Pete sent me a haiku in a bottle:
ARGH! FULL SPEED AHEAD
WENCH HILLARY SOMETHING SOMETHING
ACQUIRE! DESIRE! MERGE! MARAUD!
May 11, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about if you turn all that hatred toward McCain where it will help instead of hurt?
May 11, 2008 11:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
How about your candidate drop out so we can turn all of our energies toward McCain?
May 11, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
Because the odds of McCain being president are lower than Hillary's. Think about it.
May 11, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Does hate ever work?
May 11, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's pretty hilarious coming from a troglodyte like you. Why aren't you still posting the Limbaugh/Rove troll bs?
May 11, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
A chance to denounce
Democrats playing around?
It's Otto-matic.
May 11, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Ottomaton
under rock it dwells
tightly its eyes shut
May 11, 2008 12:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction
The Ottomaton
under rock is domicile
tightly its eyes shut
May 11, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
No hatred from me
Just sorrow for the Clintons
Open eyes, and see!
Her lips fall silent
She hopes no one can hear now
Her heart is breaking
And For Mr F (who does not seem to appreciate bloggers poetry):
In the blank white square
He types "I am hurt and mad,
hate you", - Otto F.
May 12, 2008 3:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
Crown Royal at night.
Up waiting at 3 a.m.
At new dawn, no crown.
May 11, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perfect, as a haiku should be. (And totally hilarious!) Thank you!
May 11, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Something about McCain? Okay --
Me, McCain, we drink
Together crossed the threshhold
Oops! Now we're OUTside.
May 11, 2008 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Second honeymoon
dream lost. Now we'll bicker in
Chappaqua twilight.
May 11, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
gas tax hurts drivers
stupid indiana
didn't want free cash
May 11, 2008 1:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
can't count; second line should be "o stupid indiana"
May 11, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The 'Bounce' Hillary Haiku
Monster, it's bounce time
your campaign was nothing but slime
crushed, you wreak of brine
May 11, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
i'll stay in the race
till you come to your senses
and nominate me
May 11, 2008 1:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poor silly Clinton
Millions spent, arrogance bent
like a creased pantsuit
May 11, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
(amended)
Poor Silly woman
millions spent, arrogance bent
like a crushed pantsuit
May 11, 2008 1:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
There is no kind way
to polarize electorate
without biting ass
May 11, 2008 1:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
The darted arrow
flung by her, boomerangs back
Smackt by Obama
May 11, 2008 1:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
networks declare him
bile overfloweth my heart
my rosy tongue, tart
May 11, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
In it to win it
Gone in a New York minute
Cry me a village
May 11, 2008 3:11 PM | Reply | Permalink