It's late (or early)
But my passion for Haiku
Demands a new thread

Brian's too funny
His talent runneth over
Truly speaks his mind

Befuddled by Lost
A waste of my Wednesday night
Answers we won't get.

Winter spring winter
Snowfall rain thunder lightning
March in Montana

Richard Bonine rights
the wrongs of leftist writers.
He's wrong but still writes.

even in a thread
made for sharing poetry
insults must be flung

you are all stupid
your politicians are wrong
mine are the good ones

WAY cool everyone! Wendy ~ you need to be discovered! And published!

even in a thread
made for sharing poetry
insults must be flung

Ah, but you are mistaken, Levi. I made this thread for the exact purpose of flinging insults! Mwahahaha!

(or, in proper form ...)

Thread made for Haiku
Is a front for lobbing bombs
At one's opponents

Rick, Richard and Kyle
All fall short of Jim when it
Comes to spewing bile

'Cinched purse' is only
Definition Richard knows
Of 'conservative'

Conversely, 'Open
Wallet' is what a 'liberal'
Is to a Bonine

Enlightenment comes
Slowly to those who have their
Eyes and ears sewn shut

Best of luck today,
Tomorrow and Saturday
Cowgirls go, fight, win!

YOWZA! Brian! Quit your day job!

YOWZA! Brian! Quit your day job!

Oddly enough, I
Have indeed "quit my day job"
As I now work nights

I like to Haiku
Would you too, like to Haiku?
It's easy if tried

Some say, 'stop this now'
I say, 'get bent,' I shall not
Haiku continues ...

Glendive girls lost game
Path now clear for Blue and Gold?
Keep eyes on prize, ladies

Spring Training down south
Junior back where he belongs
M's win division!

Eye for sports I've not
Sweat, spit, bulging muscles are
for others, I'll watch.

I've never tried this but ...... here goes.

Obama has won
Republicans don't like it
Don't be sore losers

Dodgers got Manny
he will hit the ball so hard
it will leave the yard

Baseball it is back
the smell of fresh cut green grass
Spring is in the air

Sun came out today
there is new grass on the field
I play second base

[removed--sorry! too much like another earlier post!]

And sticking with the baseball theme:

Yankees buy players
But Costanza should manage
Maybe then they'd win.

T.O. is now gone
The Cowboys might be better
I really hope not

Look at this big graph
It proves global warming false
Rick finds this sh*t where?

The Cowgirls will rule
Glendive out of the picture
Crying pale blond girls

A-Rod is F**k-Rod
Will not play for a long time
Eat dollars, Yankees

TALBOT, you're a natural!

Here's another haiku to cleanse our palates after Bob's soiled effort.

Swearing in haiku
Offends my girly senses
Please don't do it, Bob.

April rears its head.
What will happen now? Refund?
The tax man cometh.

Frak! and Felgercarb!
Battlestar Galactica
Has but two shows left

The aforementioned
"Curse" words are intended not
To offend Wendy

Bad news for mule train
The Bobcats beat the Grizzlies
Adios Hasquet

I have never cared
Nearly as much for men's hoops
As I do women's

Re: Daylight Savings Time


Morning comes too soon.
Just one more hour of sleep.
Aaagh! The light! The light!

Come, poets. We can't let this thread disappear.

March. The cruelest month.
It snows, it rains, sun peeks out.
Make up your mind, geez!

Mountain lions, or
Cougars are the greatest scourge
Man has ever known

Is it wrong to want
Accountibility for
Anonymous posts?

Worst movie ever?
Without question: "Pure Country"
It is on right now

Zimmern's bizarre foods:
Tempura chicken gonads
I think I will pass

Tonight will be cold.
Will tomorrow be warmer?
Hope springs eternal.

Bobcats beat Wildcats!
Beating Grizzlies was no fluke.
Portland State is next.

Good night, my fellow
Miles City dot commers
It is time for bed

This haiku habit
has seeped into other threads.
Will it ever end?

I have been the one
Seeping Haiku into threads
Other than this one

Will it ever end?
Not if I've anything to say
In this discussion

Oh my God! Haiku!
In my brain, in my brain. Help!
Can't we use blank verse?

I speak in Haiku
to my friends and family
They stare, mouths gaping.

Next haiku will seep
into my work with clients.
They will run, screaming.

Tax time is better.
It is spiced up with haiku.
What is next? Shakespeare?

The Surgeon General:
Haiku seepage shown to be
Hazardous to health

Our wise webmaster
finds haiku irritating
censorship is worse

As Yoda would say,
Gagged your account will be now,
Done it now you have.

Webmaster's stomach
Aches from eating bad sushi
Lashes at poets

five seven and five
strange poetic mutation
thank god it's now fenced

Gunnar . . . is this your blog?
http://bostonhaiku.blogspot.com/

Problem's solution:
Start a Haiku mirror thread
For every issue

When Haiku's banned
Only outlaws shall Haiku
Let my Haiku go!

It seems that Shipley
Likes to write only in Morse Code
Dot-dot-dash-dash-dot

Income tax (dot-dot)
Is the bane of (dot-dash-dot)
Rob's life (dot-dot-dot)

If you're clever
You may notice a message
Hidden in Haiku

Beernut, that was great!

Hauiku's are easy
Sometimes they do not make sense
Refrigerator

Apparently, Tom
spelling is not your forte
no apostrophe

Wendy, look up forte.
You used the musical word.
Are you corrected?

I just got louder.
Now that would be a forte.
Don't shout back at me!

Dictionaries show
That words often have more than
Just one meaning, Derf.

http://www.merriam-webste...y/forte[1]

Is it possible
That Wendy was referring
To part of a sword?

Or Perhaps, Wendy
Was stating that spelling was
Not Tom's "strongest point."

I'm thinking it's so.
Words, like creatures, will evolve.
Forte becomes forte.

Thanks a lot, Derfman.
You caused me to doubt myself
I know my fortes!!!!!!

Hal, you are too cute
Star Wars haiku is the best!
Stop using my name.

"You killed my father!"
Luke said, while Vader replied,
"I am your father."

Electric sabers--
the Jedi weapon of choice.
Do their blades have fortes?

Excellent, Derf!

Sitting on the ice
Wind blowing perch not biting
Green chile stew time

Ever so freezing
Wapiti Bob brings brandy
At last life is good

Will haiku gurus
miss cryptic message posted
in 666 thread?

Apparently, yes.
I can't find your message now
Can you repeat it?

Green Beer
Guiness and Kilarney
Irish eyes are smiling

Okay, my short talk
with the mythic street preacher
is really haiku.

Is that all it was
I figured that out right quick
give me something tough



Mary, that is not haiku!! Give it another try. I know you can do it.

Green says St. Patrick;
We took it to mean our beer.
Today I miss Butte.

I saw the webcam--
Men wearing coconut bras.
Man, I still miss Butte.

But it's cold o'er there,
And I'm not even Irish--
I'll hit the Bison!!

Cheers!

One St. Paddy's day
I chanced upon dancing Finns
I miss Butte also.

I'm part Irish, but
For St. P's, I'm indifferent
I care not for Butte

What is Butte, if not
A bigger, more self-centered
Version of Glendive?

Butte has: Berkeley Pit
No trees, obnoxious natives*
Lots and lots of drunks

* By natives, I mean native residents of Butte. I do not mean Native Americans, lest Jimbo be offended.

The love for Butte Town
is a taste I acquired
from past, genes, husband

Live Music Friday
at the Elk's Club we will meet
You're in for a treat!

Looked like Spring last week
but then got cold and cloudy
bring back the Sun...Please

March Madness is here
make sure to mark your bracket
put cash on Memphis

Got to go for now
will write more Haiku later
I'm addicted now!

Haiku like Lay's chips
No one can compose just one
Not even Webmaster

Intoxicating
Addictive, habit-forming
Haiku owns your soul

even while talking tax
haiku seeps into the mix
tax law needs haiku!

Barack picked NC
Do we follow his choices?
I went with Memphis.

If he's into sports
He can fix the BCS
And make a playoff.

Then he'll get baseball
Free of enhancing secrets--
Bonds, Clemens are OUT!

Barack can save us
if not the economy,
Hope and change for sports!

Winning the battle
Is not worth losing the war
Lesson now learned

Not my strongest suit:
Leaving well enough alone
Must pet rabid skunk

In Bizarro Land
Up is down and black is white
Winning is losing

Rob Shipley's world view:
Black helicopters, chemtrails
Aluminum hats.

bump bumpity bump
bumpity bump bumpity
bump bumpity bump

Isn't the third phrase "bumpity bump bump?"

Come Armageddon
An 'L' will be stamped on the
Foreheads of the 'Saved'

Into the sunset
Galactica and the Fleet
Literally went

Best Show On TV
Battlestar Galactica
Thanks for memories

Thought of losing thread
So devoted to Haiku
Terrifies Wendy

The geeks have taken
over haiku for heinous
purposes. I cry.

Wendy, don't knock it
Into world I brought this thread
I can take it out

Haiku is bigger
than Brian A. Reed's ego.
Haiku forever!

Miles Town is burning.
Our hearts are heavy with grief.
We will soldier on.

Wendy - your last post
Was the best Haiku posted
On this thread thus far

Thank you.

Smoke in window frames
Timbers licked by windswept flames
Sweat and tears pour down

Tragedy today
One hundred years swept away
Sunrise tomorrow

My friend, Mr. Craddock
Has contributed Haiku
Sweet mother butter!

Let healing Haiku
Give enlightenment to those
Who had once doubted

Haiku poetry
Lights fires of Inspirado
Builds, does not destroy

Excellent haiku, people!

Sweet mother butter??? Brian, good lad, thou doest crack me up!

Oh goodie, a new haiku form.


Old English Haiku
Prithee, shall I compare thou
to a summer's day?



p.s. to Brian. "My friend Mr Craddock" is 6 syllables. This fire has really shaken everyone up so I'll give you a pass.

Damn! Alas! Alack!
I have made my first error
Counting syllables

D'oh! "Mr. Craddock"
Alone has five syllables
Without phrase, "my friend"

-or-

Without "My friend"
Phrase: "Mr. Craddock," has
Five syllables - D'oh!

With my head hung low
And my shoulders slumped, I shall
Somehow persevere

Second guessing, I
Find myself questioning each
Line of my Haiku

Here Brian - let me help you out...

My friend, Sir Craddock
Has contributed Haiku
Sweet mother butter!

Or this:

My friend, Sir Crapduck
Has contributed Haiku
Sweet mother butter!

Master Duck of Crap
Is the title you now have
For calling me out

Wendy I really felt yours! Beautiful

Young Reed miscounted
Now from Haiku throne he's been
quickly dismounted

Sir Reed was mounted?
By whom and for what purpose?
Was he stuffed as well?

For the love of Mike!
I'll not be foiled by one slip
No abdication!

Heavy is my head
Both from crown and my ego
I have a strong neck

You can have my crown
Only when it rolls off my
Cold, dead cranium

With an iron fist
I, King Reed, rule my kingdom
Only one, there be

Wendy and Craddock
Two would-be throne pretenders
Now face banishment

But I speak in jest
They're two of my favorites
On MC dot com

Reed's always a card
Now a veritable bard
Chaucer of haiku

Shakespeare he sure ain't
Nor anything like a saint
Chaucer of haiku

Just like his namesake
Hoisted on a sharp rake
Chaucer of haiku

Ribald and nasty
with questionable past, He!
Chaucer of haiku

Now we're stuck with him
We've grown used to his loud din
Chaucer of haiku

Whether hot or cold
Brian A. Reed writes so bold
Chaucer of haiku

So I'll bow my head
Because more I do dread
Chaucer of haiku

Here are my thoughts on the fire (in Haiku form of course):

Rage of fire and flames
Buildings not people were lost
We shall overcome.

Fire trucks from afar
Showed up to help with the fire
Miles City thanks you.

Business Folks in need
People with lives in shambles
Helped by those who could.

Banding together
Good citizens of Miles Town
Won't let Main Street down.

We came together
Once again in time of need
Next step...Rebuilding

To Steve:

I salute you, sir!
You are a conscribed soldier
In Haiku army

Steve, my good friend
Have I somehow offended?
Or are you kidding?

My snark is a front
Heart of gold beats in my chest
So I tell myself

All snaps are in jest
To bring humor in drab times
No harm intended

I did not intend
To post verse so alarming
our friendship to bend

So now disarming
Let relationships mend
once again charming

Brian - All in fun, mi amigo. Steve

P.S. It was the "Crapduck" that did it!!!

Paranoia's gift:
Having honor of posting
Thread's one-hundredth post

Nasty, brutish, short
Life's not fair, but still precious
Enjoy time we have

Nine or ninety years
Or a lifespan eternal
Life is beautiful

Without nurturing
Nothing can grow, but with love
All things possible

Sir Reed and Crapduck
You may be the Haiku kings
But I am the Queen

All those in the realm
know where the true power lies
The Queen is Supreme!

But I show mercy
to those of lesser status
Reed may be Jester

Wow!! you guys are good...

Does this work?

Unfamilair warmth
Earth floor at its turning point
New spring birth abounds.

In Karate Kid,
Kreese: "Mercy is for the weak!"
Cobra Kai concurs

Working extra shift
Coworker called in half-dead
Damn, I am tired

Kaze: Works for me -- NICE!

Talbot: Great work! I especially like the optimism at the close.

Brian: Congrats on your Centennial post. As Father of this thread, you deserved to be Thee One.

Finally, Wendy. Yes indeed, thou art Her Royal Majesty. You'll notice I chose NOT to tangle with your haiku sword.

Finally, Wendy. Yes indeed, thou art Her Royal Majesty. You'll notice I chose NOT to tangle with your haiku sword.

That's a Haiku forte, Steve.

Wow! Thanks everyone, Im not sure I'll be able to pull my head out of the clouds today. You sure no how to make a girl feel good.

Brian: "That's a Haiku forte, Steve."

Touché, Sir Chaucer.

Chaucer depiction
I most identify with
Is Paul Bettany's

Little doubt, Paul is
A happily married man
Mr. Connolly

You guys are hilarious.

Kaze, fantastic haiku. I think you'll give us a run for our money.

Kasey Landon Reed
Is my first son; my second:
Duncan Cody Reed

Thanks Wendy

Winter backsliding
Boxed by overcast cage
Feel as low as clouds.

Good effort, Kaze, but a haiku form is 5-7-5. Your middle line only has 6 syllables.

Spring said "Hello there!"
It was sunny, warm, breezy.
Winter shot it dead.

Three-thirty a.m.
On Milescity dot com
Not really hopping

Now one hour later
There is still no one online
Weak conversation

I've now passed Gunnar
I now have more posts than he
Whoop-dee-dee for me!

Darn I already lost my crown
How about this?


Winter backsliding
Boxed in by overcast cage
Feel lower than clouds

Kaze - You deserve a crown and a half for that one! You captured the moment perfectly - which is what haiku is all about.

Thanks Steve!

Wendy you definitely captured how I felt yesterday.

Fact: Oompa Loompas
Wilt crops, steal kids, plot and scheme
Pure evil writ small

Patriotic post
Seventeen-seventy-six
I bleed Red, white, blue

An Ode in Haiku to the new liquor laws here in Utah.

Private clubs no more
But what about the children?!?!
Home brewing legal

The worst threat to kids
In Utah culture today
Is not alcohol

I am not upset
By taxes, but by people
Who gripe about them

Oh, where has March gone?
This year has passed too quickly
Time to renew plates!?

Reading "God's Demon"
Lesson learned: forever is
long time for soul-bricks

Some things I love:
Family, knowledge, home and peace
And of course ... Haiku!

So soon we forget
that form which sets hearts aflame
Haiku forever!

Gone, not forgotten
Haiku thread has now returned
Rejoice, one and all!

Two-thousand and nine
Is my current post total
For the love of Mike!

Standard? itemized?
Deductions galore or scarce?
Live or die, you pay.

How appropriate
That one-thousandth post of year
Be in Haiku form!

Only Hal Neumann
Can make a similar claim
We both post a lot

[This message has been edited by Brian A. Reed (5/4/2009)]