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We’re going to have a theme to today’s Haiku Monday – November Rain.

In Oregon, rain
Can mean fluffy mountain snow;
I pray for more snow.

Please share your haiku today.

A vote tomorrow
will make a huge difference,
big change will happen

Please share your comments below. It’s the only way to start your week.  BTW – huge thanks to eROI employees who wrote birthday haikus to me on my card for this weekend.  Yes, this is my first blog post as a much wiser and more distinguished (laughable) 34 year old.

This blog post = simple.
Intent = you have more value to add than me. You are the master – show us the way with your wise haiku. I saw KungFu Panda in the movie theater w/ my girls this weekend, I have found peace, and am inspired to read your haikus.

Have faith eROIdays peops
I would not could not forget
haiku tradition

What has begun can
not end. Like energy, it
cannot die or be destroyed.

Please add your Monday Haiku in the comments below.  Even if it’s after Monday this week, you can still contribute.  thx.

Yesterday, many of you did not submit your haiku on this blog.  While, I am deeply upset about this, I realized that I didn’t give you a lot of outside inspiration.  I think the Internet was built for the sole purpose of searching for, reading, and submitting a haiku for the greater good of all of us to enjoy them.

Here are a few sites to check out:
http://www.haiku.com/
http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q4/elechaiku.html
http://www.yuckles.com/bellyup.htm

Here are some haikus from David Joslin on U.S. politics:

What sound do I hear,
From the nation’s capitol?
Oh! Paper shredders!

Deer in the headlights
With a grin from ear to ear –
Have they told him yet?

Draft dodger, pot head,
Womanizer and waffler.
Still better than Bush.

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!