Barack Haiku

Today’s hot piping lines by guest poet Peter Medway


BA RI O BA MA/

Torture us with hope and change/

we love our Leader/

Blue river, ocean bound/

Twists in oxbows and eddies/

Carves dirt as it’s found/

Whats with the name Al?/

Grayson, Franken, Gore – stand tall/

Blue pride calls bullshit/

#democrats, #al franken, #healthcare, #alan grayson, #al gore, #climate change, #ted conference

Sir prize in the box/

Judges know who’s for bright peace/

Not eight years…eight months/




#nobel peace prize, #obama, #george bush

Yes we can make change/

Resistance means its working/

Dance as you do it/




#obama, #progress, #republicans, #oprah, #chicago, #dance. #black eyed peas

Summer’s sweaty end/

You fired up? Ready to go?/

Plug on, change one mind/

#obama, #speech, #afl-cio, #motivation

Hope has escaped/

Blood money roots for the kill/

Throw in, or fight back?/


#healthcare reform, #corporations, #got hope?, #obama

Submitted by Guest Poet Jason Wise

when i see the prez/

i choke up at all that was/

what is, and what will be/

One hundred and one/

Air freshener deployed/

Deep cleaning begins/

Hope engine thunders/

Scrape, level, and re-form/

Ride or step aside/

Guest Author Opie R. Houston, Austin, Texas
A Haiku Epic

consider the seed/

of the rambling mustard shrub–/

a shelter for birds/

one tiny black seed/

filled with boundless energy/

hopeful in the cold/

being truly blessed/

by both bible and quran/

for an immense task/

its selfless sole goal/

will create a perfect place–/

a haven for all/

Tickling my ears/

“President Obama did…”/

Ear chin ear huge grin/

Grown men’s rituals

Morph into bitter Bush fruit

Smile, change is coming





Here is the original Whassup commercial – you can see they duplicated it almost exactly – except for all the changes Bush hath wrought.

Smiling, open both eyes

Don’t hold your nose, speak freely

Smell the rose of hope

Decency drops in

Fear and anger lose their bite

The eyes have it