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  1. by the sword

    my dearest, haiku...
    wherefore art thou; to assail
    thy sonnet's bluster?

  2. frozen haiku

    this barren wasteland,
    warehouse of your emotions
    colder than your soul.

  3. green

    amid the sonnets
    I saw haiku in her eyes...
    flecks in the iris

  4. communion

    her ghost visits me
    unaware that she has passed...
    "Jen, we need to talk."

  5. unto

    without another
    the tender soul is a tree
    whose fall no one heard

  6. preemptive haiku

    writing this haiku
    will not prevent terrorists
    from writing their own

  7. tray haiku

    God passed out lifetimes,
    and He admonished the souls:
    "Take two. They are small."

  8. cathartic haiku (a template)

    (s)he is so evil
    while I am so pure at heart
    oh, the injustice...!

  9. cephalopod haiku

    women are like squid
    expelling a cloud of ink
    covering escape

  10. paper haiku

    As the wind whispers:
    "This author seems unable
    to describe a tree."

  11. fit

    lesbian pelvis
    cloistered behind blue denim
    impenetrable

  12. prolonged haiku

    another stalemate
    as she advanced her queen's rook
    "I'm not done," she said.

  13. drift

    eyes freezing over
    snowflakes adorning her lips
    dust, on soon to be...

  14. ...so goaded the spiteful looking glass: seers, behold thy dubious fruits!

    withered vines strangled
    a host of fragrant blossoms
    hindering passage

  15. squibs (and nibs)

    anti-love letters
    seeping into paper cuts
    invenomating

  16. topic

    I feel a bit strange
    writing poems about your wife
    and her firm buttocks

  17. uninspired haiku

    appeals to the muse
    conjure no epiphanies,
    leaving my page blank.

  18. mistexture

    these words did not sell
    so I gave up on writing
    and started to paint

  19. gambit

    Ingmar Bergman's Death...
    (no, I mean the character)
    wary of the knight.

  20. v.

    in a secret place
    loneliness can do strange things
    I'm afraid of you

  21. digression haiku

    Meandering, I
    appreciate the one who
    follows this river.

  22. and her sense thereof

    "I love you, darling."
    then she laughed, "I'm just kidding."
    yeah... that was funny

  23. characters (with spaces)

    File, Save As... "haiku"
    Save as type: Word Document
    (asterisk dot "doc")

    "Well, this is certainly inane, but it could have been a lot worse. I mean, given the title. But, yes... The irony is unmistakable. I mean, to use a product like Word to compose haiku... It's like using a pneumatic socket gun to adjust your eyeglasses, or a fire hose to artificially inseminate a gnat. So, when readers come away with the understanding that Bill Gates is an irritating gnat... Well, who can say that's not beautiful?" ~L. Mösknvorr (noted haiku analyst)

  24. corporeal haiku

    typical woman:
    she has no mind to offer
    only a body

  25. feline agenda

    temple cat stretches
    sniffs at the burning incense
    returns to cat dreams

  26. evil

    my hatred of her
    burns stronger than did our love
    and endures longer

  27. delay haiku

    live another day.
    not today, nor tomorrow...
    but some other day.

  28. desolation haiku

    a lifetime of thirst
    though my cup runneth over
    eternity's tears

  29. critical haiku

    redefining words
    you poets are all alike
    eroding the soul

  30. Exhibition: Abstract Variations on Haiku

    I. boxed haiku

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  31. II. legend haiku

    If we use asterisks to represent syllables, our haiku might look like this...

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  32. III. fine print haiku
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    This poem has a cash value of 1/100 of one cent and may not be redeemed in conjunction with any other haiku, tanka, sonnet, or similar construct as defined under Article 317.B (IV-XIV) of the Literary Code. Any other use may constitute fraud. Void in Iceland, except in regions of the Gnuundärd providence as specified by Amendment 53 of the Mösknvorr Haiku Act of 1983. Clean using a mild nitric acid solution, and place in a bucket of coarse gravel when not in use.

  33. IV. $575

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  34. new haiku

    this haiku is new
    (it had never been written
    until this moment)

  35. fluid

    with this poem adrift,
    our love letters canonized...
    tears you'll never know

  36. dwelling tanka

    dare I imagine
    what might reside in her heart,
    or best I forget
    the vacancy in my own
    condemned vestige of passion

  37. cast

    snow falls
    from a gray sky
    I watch

  38. love

    I feel ashamed
    wanting something
    I don't deserve

  39. revenge of the interplasm

    to read a poem
    (like this)
    and not be changed

  40. grave

    in times of snow
    I remember the cold
    dust on her lips

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