Inaugural Haiku

[Drunk Monk]

quatloos ftw
boneless beats a cyst always
that guy cannot count

[thatguy]

seven five seven
what about three five three, hmm?
numbers don't matter

--tg

[Greg]

How many Haikus
can Doom scribe for this storm day
DM enjoys them

[King Bob]

A five-fingered fish
wandered out of the water,
and now here we are.

[thatguy]

Yeti in a thong
feelin sexy - oh, my eyes!
can not unsee now

[Drunk Monk]

ha ha ha ha ha
Ha Ha Ha Ha HA HA HA
Yeti FTW!

[Greg]

[King Bob]

A fine crescent moon
shines behind the misty clouds.
Not a gathering.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

A fine crescent moon
shines behind the misty clouds.
Not a gathering.

[Yeti weeping tears of happiness]

The truth is so...*Beautiful*!

[thatguy]

https://kottke.org/24/02/the-tricycle-haiku-contest

The Tricycle Haiku Contest

In every issue, the quarterly Buddhist magazine Tricycle publishes a winning haiku from its ongoing monthly haiku contest. The poem appears alongside a column written by the contest’s judge, poet and author Clark Strand. This season’s haiku-adjacent column includes the following bit, about one theory on the nature of haiku: 

The Japanese haiku critic Kenkichi Yamamoto (1907–1988) believed that the best haiku strike a balance between humor and existential isolation. “Loneliness in life and the comical elements of life are two sides of the same coin,” he wrote. As a genre of literature, haiku thrives on the flip of that coin — the small element of uncertainty that challenges our ordinary understanding of the world.

I hadn’t realized there were such things as haiku critics (!). I also like the idea of loneliness and humor being related somehow. 

Read the Spring 2024 winning haiku here. 

And enter the monthly contest here. (The next round must include the word “turnip.”)

"the best haiku strike a balance between humor and existential isolation"

One's isolatin'
One's workin' like a gherkin
A Doom gathering?

--tg

[thatguy]

for the lair

helicopters circle
wind blows fire away from house
the dogs do not enjoy

--tg

[Greg]

Because you care!

[Drunk Monk]

Surfing those trailers
My old ass flight risk the duel
Greg don't know, he don't

[King Bob]

Now I have confusion
DM is spouting nonsense
And does Greg not know?

[Drunk Monk]

Haiku meanings lost
DM always spouts nonsense
The Key was 'Trailers'

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...6#pid72756

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Wounded owl Buckley
The lair saves the day today
What's the prognosis?

http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...8#pid72768