10 Responses to “A Haiku for Political Mail Writers”

1. alexburrolagop@yahoo.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   Dude, that’s deep…

2. jon@flashreport.org Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   Yeah yeah… Has Francis got a shot?

3. sean.hoffman@gmail.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   That’s not a haiku
   Your syllable count is off
   Stick to writing mail

4. gab200176@yahoo.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   C’mon Duane, A haiku is five syllables, then seven, then five. It must be the fog of working 24/7 the last few weeks & months.

5. duane@coronadocommunications.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   What are you talking about?

   “Never There”

   Magic computer
   like Stalin to his old friends
   airbrushing them away

6. sean.hoffman@gmail.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   Still six syllables
   With “airbrushing them away”
   Edit your last line

7. duane@coronadocommunications.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   I’ve done a bit of reading. Your version of the Haiku is very stiff – more to help students understand than representative of the poetry itself.

   The most famous Haiku in Japan is:

   old pond
   a frog jumps
   the sound of water
   –Basho

   An American Haiku

   Snow in my shoe
   Abandoned
   Sparrow’s nest
   –Jack Kerouac

   A more modern famous one from two years ago:

   so suddenly winter
   baby teeth at the bottom
   of the button jar
   –Carolyn Hall

   Stop trying to contain my spirit with your walls, man…

8. sean.hoffman@gmail.com Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   Skinny consultant
   Sage of poetic wisdom
   Don’t quit your day job

9. jon@flashreport.org Says:
   May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

   DID YOU EVER HEAR THE TALE?
   OF DAUNE THE CONSULTANT TALL AND PALE?
   A HAIKU HE ATTEMPTED TO CREATE…
   TO FIND THAT AT POETRY HE AIN’T THAT GREAT!
   PERHAPS HE SHOULD JUST WRITE MAIL…

10. marksheppard@verizon.net Says:
    May 29th, 2008 at 12:00 am

    There once was a consultant from Nantucket….

    Or was it

    There once was a consultant from Venus……