Barack Haiku

“Daddy oh Daddy/

Stomp your magic foot, look mad”/

Carville grow a pair/

Wilderness awaits/

Those who march in loud anger/

Sixties in reverse/

First mountain, health care/

Hard climbing ahead/

Lone millions decide/

Small options that go unknown/

Boss just picks the tune/

#obama, #leadership, #power

“Fair” FOX dining out/

Keep the henhouse keys close in/

They leave a red mess/




#fox news, #mopping up, #obama

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.

Heat seeps through our soles/

The long walk back from Saint Ron/

Trudge on, drink water/

#reform #reagan #healthcare #wall street #obama #haiku

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

Submitted by guest poet Opie Houston

earflaps not working/

to ward off bugging house fly…/

two gentle waves…..smack!/

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/