Lumbergh and the Bobs
bring layoffs and misery
white collars, dark times

- An excerpt from the "Office Space" Haikuvie. What's a Haikuvie? A Haikuvie takes a movie and sums it up in 7 haiku. It is an attempt to capture the essence of the film and mix in bits of commentary and humor along the way. Warning: Haikuvies contain spoilers (if you haven't seen the movies).
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This year's winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival's annual haiku contest were recently announced.
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - View this thread

Bill Bixby haiku from 1994. [via]
posted on Dec 30, 2007 - View this thread

Intimate in bed
Adoptive iterative
Develop in bed!

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Hello my marbles
You have no chance to marble
Make your undoing!
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - View this thread

Twitterku features haiku made out of public updates on Twitter. Sometimes they’re existential. Sometimes they’re vaguely dirty. Actually they’re mostly just existential and vaguely dirty.
posted on Nov 1, 2007 - View this thread

From the Sarcasm Society
posted on Aug 21, 2007 - View this thread

Horses eat a lot / prances in the lovely field / They are beautiful.
Pandas eat bamboo / All pandas live in Japan / Pandas are harmless.
CAT'S sit and lay down / CAT's are big and fluffy / My cat is a Maine coon / I'm chasing my cat.

The assorted haiku of Bloomfield Elementary School in Skowhegan, Maine.
posted on Feb 10, 2007 - View this thread

Haiku Circus. Red autumn leaves blow./The monkey looks for laughs and/Finds Haiku Circus.
posted on Oct 12, 2006 - View this thread

New Yorker in Haiku. Every week.
posted on Sep 17, 2006 - View this thread

The nature of science fiction poetry is the subject of vigorous debate even among its own practitioners. Nonetheless, it has its own annual awards, the Rhyslings. What wins? The first victor in 1978 was Gene Wolfe's The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps, while Tim Pratt's Soul Searching was the most recent winner. Bruce Boston, Robert Frazier, and Andrew Joron are generally considered the masters of the field. Many more poems here, as well as an in-depth bibliography, and, of course, the periodic table of science fiction haikus about the elements. Don't like science fiction? Cowboy poetry is also a thriving genre.
posted on Apr 19, 2006 - View this thread

File Not Found Philosophical Haiku
The Motley Fool site
Offers quiet Haiku, for
others' "File Not Found."
(via)
posted on Nov 4, 2005 - View this thread

Do you like claret? Wine reviewer writes haiku. (More fun than Parker.)
posted on Sep 26, 2005 - View this thread

Calculator Haiku
posted on Jul 23, 2005 - View this thread

metafilter: haiku
happy haiku day, asshats
this haiku vibrates
posted on Jul 5, 2005 - View this thread

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 on May 7, 2005 - View this thread

Grape Haiku
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The Haiku Postcard Foundation exhibits a collection of anonymous hand-created postcards sent in from people around the world. It boasts a long and varied history and many interesting submissions.
posted on Mar 24, 2004 - View this thread

Mullet haiku, brought to you from the fine folks at the Beer Church (The Largest Unorganized Religion in the World!)
It's Two! Two! Two links in one!
posted on Oct 14, 2003 - View this thread

Big Monsters, Little Poems. "Last night I dreamed I / Destroyed New York City in / My Maidenform Bra"
"Twin six-inch singers / Banshees, worse than the monsters / Mercy, make them stop!"
...and dozens more haiku monster movie reviews, promoting a forthcoming indie PC game.
posted on Jul 24, 2003 - View this thread

Honku : haiku poems about cars and traffic (from NPR)
posted on Jul 17, 2003 - View this thread

Length of the New Harry Potter got you down? Try these. Maybe you'd like to try tell a complete story in exactly 55 words?
posted on Jun 20, 2003 - View this thread

Periodic Table of Haiku
posted on Mar 16, 2003 - View this thread

Although the haiku as meme has fallen on hard times here at MeFi, there are still some practioners lurking about in the wilderness, no doubt. If you still feel the urge to get freaky with the 5-7-5, and you think you've got what it takes, you might want to try your hand at competitive haiku over at The Guardian, where quality haikuing will score you 20 lbs worth of Penguin Books. Damn, that's a lot of paperbacks!
posted on Feb 24, 2003 - View this thread

Tired of haikus? Then it might be time for tanka. Older than haikus, tanka is 31 syllables divided into lines of 5-7-5-7-7. There's been a World Tanka Competition (mostly in Japanese, but the poems are translated into English) and a modern tanka poet, Machi Tawara, has had her work turned into movies, television shows, and a musical revue. All that's needed now is to make it popular in the English-speaking world...
posted on Dec 31, 2002 - View this thread

First there was Haiku. Then came Christmas Haiku, Suburban Haiku, Gangster Haiku, Dog Haiku, and...Leprosy Haiku?
posted on Oct 8, 2002 - View this thread

Masaoka Shiki, the Japanese poet who revived the haiku, died one hundred years ago today, at the age of 34.
posted on Sep 19, 2002 - View this thread

Headline Haikus.... Headlines as Haikus / Written by a computer / Robert Frost's corpse spins
posted on Sep 2, 2002 - View this thread

A new use for haiku! Ancient Japanese art as spam filter? Habeas seems to think so. Come on kids, let the sorry attempts at poetry begin!
posted on Aug 20, 2002 - View this thread

Buy wadded paper
from very famous artist
and then you like it
posted on May 20, 2002 - View this thread

Lehrer's On the Line
Satirical Haiku Jam
First Annual. (stream)
posted on May 2, 2002 - View this thread

Really Good Haiku (in English!) Yes, some complain about the abundance of humerous haiku on the internet and otherwise (wherever that is), but the fact remains: we all love it, perhaps because it is so easy to do, but probably because it enriches our lives, like a really well made stone wall, or Sam Cooke. I have found some haiku which were actually written in english, about the sorts of things which we all like to laugh at. Enjoy them now!
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posted on Mar 31, 2002 - View this thread

Here at Metafilter - as in many other places on the web - we spend a lot of time talking about (and in) Haiku. For some reason the web-enabled generation has come to think of Haiku as a hip, funny, and somewhat ironic way to express ... anything. But lest we forget that Haiku is, first and foremost, a beautiful, traditonal art form. How many of you out there know much about the history of Haiku? Did you know that Japan is full of monuments to Haiku? Have you heard of or read any of the great traditional haiku poets, like Masaoka Shiki, the man for whom the International Haiku Award is named? If you enjoy reading traditional-style Haiku, you can read any number of magazines devoted exclusively to Haiku. Many of us have not tried to write Haiku since Junior High - do you perhaps need some instructions on how to write Haiku? If you really enjoy reading or writing Haiku, perhaps you might wish to join the Haiku Society of America. And, of course, if you wish to know more about Haiku, there are any number of other resources out on the web.
posted on Mar 29, 2002 - View this thread

Low Haiku
_____________________
i kick you so hard
and steal all your ice cold beer
and then run away
posted on Mar 23, 2002 - View this thread

Mythkus. And poetry. Interesting in that... scary... way.
posted on Nov 5, 2001 - View this thread

Haiku Movie Reviews that really work. [via The Ultimate Insult]
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Haikux “When you have non-text ¶ Provide text equivalents: ¶ Text repurposes” | “Give user control ¶ For changing views of pages ¶ The user laughs last”
posted on Aug 23, 2001 - View this thread

When the muse has struck/knowledge and form are entwined/in geeky haiku - (how to decode DVDs) [via /usr/bin/girl]
posted on Feb 27, 2001 - View this thread

Haiku the Blog
MeFi Users look!
Other Blog filled with haiku
click link to read more           [via MacGregor.net]
posted on Feb 1, 2001 - View this thread

It figures the only election haikus I'd find are at FreeRepublic.com. Can anyone find more?
posted on Nov 9, 2000 - View this thread