Haiku Monday: New eROI Days Ritual
Oct 20 2008
I’m a huge fan of a quintessential Oregon entity called Live Wire! Radio – a mix of edgy humor, music, and Garrison Keillor-style story-telling and political humor. My wife and I went to the show w/ other folks from eROI and one distinct thing that they do at every show is the Audience Haiku. Let me preface this blog post by saying that I am clearly no poet, haiku expert. In fact, they may be so bad, that they are laughable. But, it’s Monday morning and I want to have you, my loyal blog readers, participate a little more and inspire me with some of your haikus. Here are only two ground rules – 1. it’s got to be as close as possible to 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables; 2. theme can be edgy, vulgar, random, whatever, but NO excessive swearing please. Let the absurd poetry of haiku begin.
dark in the morning
cold as hell on my red bike
I am refreshed
Anticipation
of Halloween begins and
finance market scares
Yellow leaves cascade
slick as banana peels squish
under Nike Air
Now, it’s your turn. Comment with your haiku – you could win a free eROI collectible gift of a robot named KillROI – the famous hero in www.KillSpammer.com!
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October 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Ah yes, Monday night.
My couch, and some wine await.
Is Heroes on? Meh.
October 20th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Tom – you get 2 chances to win a second KillROI and huge kudos from me for being the first to deliver a compellingly absurd haiku – congrats!
October 20th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Jack In The Box rules
Menu items are greasy
It’s open all night
October 20th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Almost time to leave
Another eROI day done
The evening awaits
October 20th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
will write code for food.
sanitation engineer?
you’re still my boy blue.
October 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Rain falls in Portland
Streams form in the streets
Just another day
October 20th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Easy Erik – my favorite so far – must be b/c I’m such a huge “Old School” fan. Brilliant.
October 20th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
it’s so obvious
dylan is not japanese
count his syllables
October 20th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
four syllables
followed by six, then three
haiku FAIL!
October 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
two ladies walk in
“sysdev room smells like onions”
turn around and leave
October 21st, 2008 at 6:54 am
baby wakes early
get up and start the coffee
psych, she’s back asleep
October 21st, 2008 at 7:29 am
Commenting on blogs
Makes me want to write haiku
Really? That seems weird.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:38 am
Snoopy is my dog
Snoopy is my alarm clock
Snoopy is my child
October 21st, 2008 at 7:58 am
Now that it rains
The bums have gone inside
Portland rocks!
October 21st, 2008 at 8:04 am
in denial that heels fit
toes say otherwise
half size too small is no good
October 21st, 2008 at 8:06 am
should be in meeting
say goodbye to my bonus
no christmas for me
October 21st, 2008 at 8:15 am
Bright leaves promise change
The people will have their say
Hope will soon prevail
October 21st, 2008 at 8:19 am
Summer is over
This weather is depressing
I think I have SAD
October 21st, 2008 at 8:20 am
An ode to my cat
She poops in the litter box
and buries her turds
October 21st, 2008 at 8:38 am
no dyslexia
just have a lot to tell you
i like it backwards
October 21st, 2008 at 8:53 am
slyly romping louts
scavenging yellow stickies
freeze, sexy hermits
October 21st, 2008 at 9:25 am
like to work from home
writing code in my PJs
missing the foosball
October 21st, 2008 at 9:52 am
tomando café
el segundo del día
sólo es martes
October 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
drinking a coffee
the second one of the day
it’s only tuesday
October 21st, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I hate being sick
am battling a sore throat
wishing I was fine
October 21st, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Wait! I found the place,
Online to share Haikus — cool!
Web Two Oh is Old.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Love it Amber.
All eROI employees who have a haiku above – you ROCK! Keep ‘em comin’!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
wow! I am impressed
who knew such haiku genius
lived within eroi
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
why do we still see
deliverability
problems at Yahoo
October 22nd, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Nicely done, Tim. We’ll follow up w/ a non-haiku response.
October 22nd, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Thinking of cold beer,
it’s nearly time to go home.
Let’s go to Someday!
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
too busy for this
haikus waste all of my time
back to writing code
October 24th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I love jQuery
so easy to implement
it makes me happy
October 27th, 2008 at 8:05 am
it’s Monday again
Addicted to Twittering
I think I need help
October 27th, 2008 at 10:05 am
San Diego sun
I am lucky to live here
Who cares no money?