Happy World Centennial Haiku Day!

May 7, 2005 10:18 AM

Today is World Centennial Haiku Day 05/07/05
Rejoice good citizens, today is Haiku Day.
We're all well familiar with rape haiku (and grape haiku from the Mefi thread) but did you know about Scifaiku (science fiction haiku)?
Unless you don't follow the Gregorian Calendar, such as those following the Hebrew, Persian, Islamic , Chinese, or Hindu calendars. To them its just another day, I guess.
posted by fenriq (31 comments total)

And don't forget the Lord of the Rings haikus.
posted by Reverend Robbie at 10:25 AM on May 7, 2005

Go, malignéd spread,
Seek thy glory upon bread
Marmite, thus to fame!
posted by kenko at 10:30 AM on May 7, 2005

You could have at least
Posted to Metafilter
In haiku format.

(Yeah, yeah, I know, 5-7-5 does not a true haiku make, but hey, it's Saturday and I'm lazy.)

Also, all but one of the few eBay reviews I leave for sellers are in haiku form.
posted by brownpau at 10:34 AM on May 7, 2005

brownpau, it is morn
after a long and hard week
glad I got this far

But I'll try harder in a hundred years when it comes around again.
posted by fenriq at 10:37 AM on May 7, 2005

Outside the U.S.
Today is 07/05
Thus not Haiku Day.
posted by gubo at 10:37 AM on May 7, 2005

The best of the web
Includes — without a doubt — a
Link to Metaiku!
posted by AlexReynolds at 11:00 AM on May 7, 2005

I wrote a haiku.
But it was not very good.
So I won't share it.
posted by Johnny Assay at 11:03 AM on May 7, 2005

Ha! 5/7/5! I get it!

*shoots self*
posted by Baby_Balrog at 11:06 AM on May 7, 2005

serious children
scrape frost from the joints
of a war machine

That Scifi Haiku rocks!
posted by sourwookie at 11:06 AM on May 7, 2005

A haiku romance
Once blossomed on MeFi
Cruel deletion
posted by kenko at 11:18 AM on May 7, 2005

Over at The Kingdom of Loathing they have a haiku channel. If you go in there you have to type in all haiku or you get banned from chat for an hour (or more). "The heat!"
posted by ZachsMind at 11:29 AM on May 7, 2005

Today, 5/7/5,
I am a bit hungover.
I'll drink more tonight.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 11:55 AM on May 7, 2005

today = this.

Dammit.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 11:58 AM on May 7, 2005

Haiku about you
Haiku about everyone
I hate everyone
posted by EvilKenji at 12:11 PM on May 7, 2005

Working at the juice bar of an athletic club in Vancouver, I wrote the following to educate my co-workers:

Bad prokaryotes
Multiply in the juice bar
Kill them all, with bleach
posted by sindark at 12:25 PM on May 7, 2005

I don't know why we bother - Dave Barry wrote the greatest haiku many years ago:

A dog is barking
bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
bark bark bark bark bark.
posted by unixrat at 12:27 PM on May 7, 2005

Trollish interludes
Make AlexReynolds swoony
And demand pancakes
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 12:33 PM on May 7, 2005

today's date makes it

haiku day everywhere so

go write a poem.
posted by ab3 at 12:37 PM on May 7, 2005

I hate haikus. I always run out of fingers counting syllables.
posted by DaShiv at 12:39 PM on May 7, 2005

I am a caged faun
surrounded by luscious nymphs
dancing out of reach.

and

my neighbors' music
a jackhammer in my ear
I will kill them all.

frustrated and cranky today, I know.
posted by exlotuseater at 12:44 PM on May 7, 2005

Haiku day no work
For those who put day then month
What's a euro anyway?
posted by fenriq at 1:03 PM on May 7, 2005

Sensible folk
Will celebrate haiku day
On the 5th July.
posted by salmacis at 1:05 PM on May 7, 2005

Clever fapnozzle,
Ye Mefites dribble doggrel.
Now STFU.
posted by bwilliams at 1:06 PM on May 7, 2005

None of these are Sci-fi-y. :-(

oh, Hoshi Sato
Hot now, but she'll die old in
"Conscience of the King"
posted by John Kenneth Fisher at 1:51 PM on May 7, 2005

Few centennials
Shall I see in my lifetime,
I'll celebrate twice.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 2:10 PM on May 7, 2005

Ever popular
Redneck haiku are always
last in the reckoning
posted by warbaby at 10:52 PM on May 7, 2005

Picture a sparrow.
NO! Not that fucking sparrow!!!
The other one. Shit.
posted by yhbc at 10:57 PM on May 7, 2005

Trollish interludes
Make AlexReynolds swoony
And demand pancakes

Pouring syrup on
DeepFriedTwinkies is nothing
like trolling MeFi.
posted by AlexReynolds at 12:48 AM on May 8, 2005

Tim Clare, with talent
rare, and sod all to do, de-
vised the cleri-ku.
posted by RokkitNite at 8:43 AM on May 8, 2005

Sir Deep Fried Twinkies
Rejoices in the syrup.
Makes googoo eye.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 1:21 PM on May 8, 2005

Write a haiku for
the Guardian newspaper.
Win some great prizes.
posted by IndigoJones at 2:50 PM on May 9, 2005