Beer Haiku Daily*Cool Site* - We publish a beer haiku daily. A simple poem each day to celebrate one of life's simple pleasures. Submissions are welcome.
Mortgage Haiku*Cool Site* - A page of 5-7-5 poems relating to the current (2008) real estate and mortgage crisis. Additional poems welcome.
Airless Suburban Haiku - "A cynical celebration of conspicuous consumption in haiku form." --What they said of themselves. It's accurate.
AsianAmericanFilm.com: Haiku Fu - A weekly haiku contest based on photos of Asian Americans in the film world. Read 'em! Write 'em! Win cheap but delightful prizes! In your face fun.
Bar Haiku - Scanned images of haiku written in bars (usually on napkins). Fun and funny, with some X-rated, as you might expect from the "Bar Haiku Crowd".
Bing Crosby's Haiku - Uses invented names in all its content, except in cases when public figures are being satirized.
Bushku Generator - Cyberpoetry as from the glib lips of the Global Village Idiot. Bushku use a 3-5-3 syllable form, 'cause 5-7-5 is too darn complexicated, Laura.
Crack Haiku - A collection of haiku about crack cocaine.
Daily News Haikus - Witty, insightful take on the day's events in traditional 5-7-5 form. Contains links to story sources, and archives from past days. Submit your own.
Dairy Lama: Land of Cheese Haiku - Submit dairy-inspired haiku poems, called mooküs. Mookü poems are submitted and displayed on topics such as art, philosophy, love, science, and adventure.
Dog Haikus - A poetic tribute to the domesticated dog. Not classical, not 'artsy', just apt. Hopefully entertaining.
The Genuine Haiku Generator - The Genuine Haiku Generator, powered by JavaScript, creates evocative, meaningful verse (?) using completely random combinations of individual words. Save your favorite haiku online, or send one to a friend. (May be X-rated.)
Haiku Circus by Ken Sakamoto - Haiku Circus - a comic strip that combines haiku poetry [that is, 5-7-5s] with drawings by Ken Sakamoto.
Haiku Error Messages - Yet another rendition of this popular group of 5-7-5s, with a few new ones thrown in.
Haiku error messages - If programmers were more into Haiku these are the sort of error messages you might see. (This appears to be the same as the original Salon.com set, see below.)
The Haiku Homepage - An informational resource about [pseudo-]Haiku, modern and historical.
Haiku U. - Site of David M. Bader, author of "Haiku U." and other books of humorous 5-7-5s related to Zen and Judaism.
Haiku-A-Day - Haiku Nurse provides an original Haiku every day. Blogged by an Oregon author.
Haikus for Jews - Humorous haikus, combining ancient Zen wisdom with timeless Jewish noodging. Excerpts from book for sale.
haikus4hotties - Irreverent 5-7-5 syllable poetry dedicated to beautiful strangers found on Friendster and other dating sites.
Hard To Swallow - Mostly absurd thoughts about the God of the Universe in loose Senryu and Tanka poetry. Food for thought and discussion. Brief comments on religious extremism, totalitarianism etc.
Honku: The Poetry of Clinton Street - Aaron Naparstek's attempt to combat urban traffic noise with haiku and promote his book. Includes verses, message board, and notes and links on the urban noise problem.
Hot Cross Haiku - A poetry weblog featuring traditional and modern haiku by Ian Row of Melbourne and fellow hot crossers from around the world.
Pop Haiku - A collection of 5-7-5s about pop culture. Send your own for consideration. Managed by Lisa Beebe and Fred Flores.
productmoment.com - commercial poetry - Site marries 5-7-5 doggerel verse to the commercial world in an attempt to combine the ancient form of poetry with the consumer world. Users are invited to spend a moment with products they are researching and think of them in a different way. A sales site, consisting entirely of advertisements.
Salon 21st: The 21st Challenge - A collection of "haiku computer error messages" resulting from a contest, with author's names.
Sayings of the Wise Shang-ti - Proverb-like guru-ku written by the Wise Shang-ti while meditating high atop McDonald's golden arches.
Transmissions In Seventeen - A plethora of 5-7-5s on just about any current topic, and some not so current (PEZ, anyone?), by Richie Millennium.
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