Time for a new category here at the Refuge, namely “Hokey Haiku“. It’s just a fun way to communicate a simple thought or observation of the day in a mere 17 syllables. Don’t expect Robert Frost or e.e.cummings though.
Summer’s vanishing
Where is my calculator?
The semester starts
Yep. I’m back on campus.
Hokey Haiku #1
- Doc Bushwell is a biochemist and a medical writer who serves as a slavering minion of the dark lords of Big and Little Pharma; Jim is an engineering professor with a fondness for running shoes and drumsticks; and Kevin Beck is a self-exiled member of the clan who refuses to stay gone.
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#1 by scicurious on August 21, 2008 - 11:23 am
Second cup of Joe
Tired of life, graduate school
A new term begins
or…
The evil gnomes know
Of my doctoral pressures
And destroy my data
#2 by Lemon Curry on August 21, 2008 - 1:49 pm
Haiku?
Gesundheit.
#3 by Lofcaudio on August 21, 2008 - 3:46 pm
Wiping tears away
Won’t stop the chest from heaving
So why hide the pain?
#4 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 6:27 pm
What the hell…
Nobody is going to believe me anyway…
Fuck it!
#5 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 6:33 pm
John McCain lost five military jets…
One was not his fault…
Which one?
#6 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 6:44 pm
I could sit here and opine all night long,
but I ask you,
What’s the point?
#7 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 7:10 pm
Remember when ya didn’t like broccoli,
but now ya do?
Yummies!!!
#8 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 7:14 pm
Gimmie a grinder with double meat
and double cheese,
but hold the hots.
#9 by Bill from Dover on August 21, 2008 - 7:17 pm
Tonight, I feel like a hot dog
With bacon & cheese…
I’m on a roll.
#10 by Crudely Wrott on August 21, 2008 - 11:40 pm
While Autumn prepares
Summer lolls like a young girl
The weather is warm
#11 by JimFiore on August 22, 2008 - 10:05 am
Bill, I like your entries, but usually Haiku is taken as three lines of 5-7-5 syllables to achieve the 17 total. But I note that the rules have weaken over the years (and a syllable is only an approximation to the Japanese sound count anyway).
#12 by Lofcaudio on August 22, 2008 - 1:08 pm
Learning? Not really.
Another year of school means
More hoops to jump through.
#13 by JimFiore on August 22, 2008 - 2:24 pm
If it is just hoops
and there’s no learning at all,
try a new major
(a time-honored prescription)