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Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame  brevity without weight is really  just laziness and incompetence .  What should  have  been a  paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet  sandwich.” Most real writers can and  do enjoy words and or at least a complete  thought with actual  depth.. We don't write epic poetry in dactylic hexameter anymore. We don't compose courtly love sonnets to unattainable noblewomen. Some forms had their time, served their purpose in a specific cultural moment, and then ended. That's not a tragedy that's just how art evolves. But haiku won't die because it's lazy and easy and fools every IDIOT into thinking they are an actual poet.. Read Plath, or Bukowski or Nabokov or anyone that actually has something to say. You may find that it's actually more satisfying than reading "frog farts in the wind." Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being  forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture  or can you not  tell  poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ? It's not deep and it's really not relevant. It's a cheap, lazy path of least resistance for people who want to pretend to be artistic or deep don't wanna do the actual work. If it doesn't deserve at least a paragraph, it shouldn't deserve your time or attention.
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Sep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM UTC
Haiku and syllable counting
Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame  brevity without weight is really  just laziness and incompetence .  What should  have  been a  paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet  sandwich.” Most real writers can and  do enjoy words and or at least a complete  thought with actual  depth.. We don't write epic poetry in dactylic hexameter anymore. We don't compose courtly love sonnets to unattainable noblewomen. Some forms had their time, served their purpose in a specific cultural moment, and then ended. That's not a tragedy that's just how art evolves. But haiku won't die because it's lazy and easy and fools every IDIOT into thinking they are an actual poet.. Read Plath, or Bukowski or Nabokov or anyone that actually has something to say. You may find that it's actually more satisfying than reading "frog farts in the wind." Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being  forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture  or can you not  tell  poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ? It's not deep and it's really not relevant. It's a cheap, lazy path of least resistance for people who want to pretend to be artistic or deep don't wanna do the actual work. If it doesn't deserve at least a paragraph, it shouldn't deserve your time or attention.
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Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ?
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Jun 21, 2025
Jun 21, 2025 at 12:39 PM UTC
Crosswords and soap boxes slicker than fresh pooh in the rain
Haiku  ? What  you want    ISN’T  POETRY Nor,  is  what you are  making .  Its a crossword puzzle! Restricted, confined not necessarily useless, but unwanted  by  the  rest of  us. What  I want is not  poetry . ITS A SOAPBOX , not respected Obeyed ! (Don’t  expect  us  to revel in your artificial cleverness. I can’t  candy  coat my sledgehammer  for the smug little puzzle palace where people confuse compression  with clarity and restraint with relevance or innovation. ) It’s not the form that’s brilliant . Neither  is  a form  that hinders  it. It’s the purported slickness of mediocrity pretending to be insight. Like rain-slick **** shiny on top, but still just ****** over processed  garbage. No real expression  had  syllable  count as its impetus ! Yor lame brevity without weight is really just laziness and incompetence . What should have been a paragraph hacked to death isn’t automatically profound. It’s like handing someone a bag of bread crumbs and saying, “Enjoy your gourmet sandwich.” Most real writers can and do enjoy words and or at least a complete thought with actual depth.. Why  do  you  Want  to mimic Basho, any way ?   Are  you a scared  feckless samurai boy  toy  trapped in  a ***** house  that serves  tea ? Are you socially stunted  and   rambling through  a whispering ********** zen garden ? Are you being forced to pretend  enjoyment in polite  torture or can you not tell poetry from sudoku? Emasculated wannabe samurai-boy’s at tea-party about to turn **** crybaby daddy issues art  act, much ?
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everytime I'm with other people, I get reminded of how talentless I am- they're all ******* shining stars, while I'm one of those that are glow-less, tucked away in a lil corner. maybe I'm born in the wrong era, maybe I'll be talented in another day. maybe, just maybe, I'm famous in a parallel universe. but they're all 'maybes' isn't it time to give up?
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Sep 16, 2024
Sep 16, 2024 at 7:35 AM UTC
maybe
Despite the fact that I thought you were hot. What you did really did not hit the spot. Because of you and their foolishness. Now I will have nothing left. I will be homeless. Forever lost, and left talentless. I hope these people never find peace of mind. Because I was the one who was left behind. I know you did it to be kind or hurtful. What they did for you and your people was helpful. Until someone else stepped in and held my life by a thread. Maybe someday soon I will fall dead. Because all the lies they feed us all. I hope you have fun at the mall. Have fun person who’s name rhymes with dating. In that corner I was trying. All you fools who ruined my chances time and again. Like with moving arms I even right with a pen. Again and again I play a song. For me you better hope nothing is wrong. I know you were married. But I did not make the advance you carried. Have fun all with your picnic. Because you can like an apex you can have it big.
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Sep 30, 2018
Sep 30, 2018 at 6:21 PM UTC
Now
. In mid airs, dimly, The ****** birds cluck, Only flutter useless wings For they are grounded, Nor are they beautiful, O how they feign singing, Gutteral cluckings only fit For predators to stalk, Lame ugly birds prefer The company of other Lame, ugly, groundy birds, With no things, ever, to sing, Only to preen and beak For scraps under trees, Where winged songbirds Lit by the flighty sun Do truly sing.
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May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015 at 8:07 PM UTC
Wingless
Yes, you out there wherever you may be You try to steal our souls in poems We know you, to the tee What twisted motives to be us, by proxy, what cowardess you be What an empty vessel posses you, such sadness, such despair You pick our hard imagined fruit and not from your own tree You clone our minds, like leaches on our skin You wish us harm, you thieving *** You wormy monster, a slug, next to kin I curse you I loath you I hate you You stealers of our youth Betrayers of our written souls What lacks is pride, and owners of the truth
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Feb 4, 2015
Feb 4, 2015 at 9:10 AM UTC
Be aware of our soul-snatchers
I have the gift of art,but I can't put it to good use. Creativity blurs my mind but when I touch a piece of paper with a pencil,a pen,a brush it still remains empty. I'm too scared to even attempt to let the art flow,because I know my paintings,sketches,scribbled messed up drawings would only land me in handcuffs
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Apr 3, 2014
Apr 3, 2014 at 11:57 AM UTC
Art