Haiku: Storms Ahead
Weather fine or foul The economic climate Is not natural
Writing: Haiku
First: five syllables
Next line: seven syllables
Last: five syllables
There are some other rules too, but I’m ignoring them.
Quote as Haiku: Rosa
“Freedom is always The freedom of dissenters” Rosa Luxemburg
Haiku: Election 2015 Canada
I know this much of Canadian politics Stephen Harper sucks
Haiku: Question Time Schadenfreude
On the BBC’s Question Time TV programme on 15 October 2015, single mum Michelle Dorrell berated the Tory government for cutting tax credits, having voted Tory at the last general election. I voted for you When you were hurting others … Read more
Haiku: Word of the Week
Great word “tmesis” Insertion of a swear word Fan-fucking-tastic
Book Reviews as Haiku
Essential reading Communist Manifesto A work of great class Arguments Yard by Attila the Stockbroker A life of ranting The Establishment A leftwards look into the Overton Window Ashcroft’s Call Me Dave Sold ’cause its protagonist Knobbed a dead pig’s … Read more
Haiku’s Hard
This metre’s too strict You haiku if you want to I can’t be arsed
Haiku: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
May look cuddly but Harms London says urban fox Of Boris Johnson
Haiku: Selective
If they are so great Why can’t every child go To a grammar school?
Haiku: Eleven-Plus
The case once made for Grammar schools has been destroyed Comprehensively
Haiku: Eff Off
Iain Duncan Smith I have a message for you Go take a haiku
Haiku: Tweeting
Restrictive texting: Twitter did not invent it Haiku got there first
Haiku: The Tube
London Underground Has bang on five syllables Deserves a haiku This haiku was included in an online selection by The Londonist.
Haiku: Dreams
Live your dreams they said Naked on the bus it seems Is not what they meant
Haiku: Depression
I worry about People who are not depressed They must be insane
Haiku: PM-KUs
I have a question It’s from Janine of Hackney How low can you sink?
Haiku: Profanity
Some people object To swearing and blasphemy Jesus fucking Christ
Haiku: Unelected
In just two countries Clerics sit in government Iran and Britain
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