Barack Haiku

Crafted like diamonds/

Or spewed in love and fear/

Can’t stop an oil spill/

Wilderness awaits/

Those who march in loud anger/

Sixties in reverse/

Each leaf drops alone/

Rake the fallen together/

Strike the fall colors/

Wind whipped vote count/

Chicago not Hawaii/

Lake chill on blue dogs/

#haiku, #healthcare, #blue dogs, #political pressure, #reform, #public option

Insurance Inc. bull/

Gored our wallet long ago/

Red blood, black profit/

#haiku, #healthcare, #reform, #insurance, #cost control

Birthday 1 in the White House.


God Danced

by Andrew Lawrence


God danced the day you were born

The angels did the bump to Gabriel’s horn

God danced the day you were born

So grateful for the gift of you


I saw God do the funky chicken

Steppin’ and kickin’ in blue suede shoes

I saw God do the boogaloo, too

Faced with the gift of you.


I have heard some folks say that long ago

God could not dance to save his soul,

But people, I’ve seen him shake that jelly roll

Just thinking ’bout the gift of you!





We just heard Guy Forsyth rock the house with this alternate birthday song Sunday night – it rocks and puts the traditional song to shame.   Its change we can believe in. Guy hasn’t recorded it yet – hopefully next year we’ll have audio. Yeah, its not haiku – but its poetry/lyrics, so close enough for the editorial staff here at Haiku HQ.

No rising March flood/

River is shifting,  move town/

All to higher ground/

#health care, # reform, #congress. #haiku, #republican denial

A haiku epic on health care.

Lobbys mainline cash/

Addicts on the Hill deny/

Medical chaos/

Facts be damned/

“Just one more fix” our Reps plead/

Its never just one/

Feh, the “war on drugs”/

Look in the fucking mirror/

You cringing junkies/

Another DC day/

Delay, deny, blame others/

Low expectations/

Stand up, grow a spine/

Own the problem, work for us/

Today, right now, go/

A Haiku Epic on Health Care

What price our good health?/

Insurers slim down, trim cash/

Eat reform veggies/

We tried Nixon’s way/

Massive profit, massive fail/

Old fight on new turf/

Now, now, or never/

Organized theft, health foes/

Pick pockets of the dead/

March forward, join arms/

A win is for all of us/

Even resisters/

#health care reform #haiku

Ghana, with the wind/
At our back, through an evil door/
We return forward/

#haiku, #Obama, #Ghana

I’m working – go way/

Buzz me once, grin, twice, curtains/

Bugs, elephants too/

Submitted by Guest Poet Jason Wise

when i see the prez/

i choke up at all that was/

what is, and what will be/

Green shoots of friendship/

Rise each day, the wise farmer/

Waters with kind words/

Wooden words snarled/

To cower behind the whip/

You must live in fear/

Big O rejects Dick/

Stride into the gale head up/

Fear, not how we roll/

This season needs even/

No flash flame – no ice lockout/

Steady repair job/

Source NY Times