Haiku Train

barrie · Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:50 am

Backs, to the wall lads,
half-backs, step forward a bit,
forwards, form a scrum.

kozmikdave · Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:01 pm

Forwards, form a scrum
Around an ugly hooker
Never drop your shorts

barrie · Mon Sep 25, 2006 2:23 pm

Never drop your shorts,
or your beers for that matter -
Expensive habit.

Jester · Mon Sep 25, 2006 3:30 pm

Expensive habit
for a nun-profit outfit.
Monk's eyes hit the sky.

And Barrie's too, probably

barrie · Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:04 pm

Monk's eyes hit the sky
at the same time as Lucy.
See the diamonds!

Jester · Mon Sep 25, 2006 6:43 pm

See the diamonds
form a spangled trap for those
materialists

pseud · Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:07 pm

materialists
pantheists, silent stoics
Epicurians

kozmikdave · Mon Sep 25, 2006 9:36 pm

Epicurians
Living luxuriously -
hedonistic'ly

juliadebeauvoir · Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:10 am

Hedonistic'ly,
everyone is a critic.
The Grecians "Panned" it.

kozmikdave · Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:52 am

The Grecians "Panned" it,
Arcadian chimpanzee -
eat served piping hot.

barrie · Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:46 am

Eat, served piping hot,
like any good plumber would -
Macaroni tubes.

juliadebeauvoir · Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:48 pm

Macaroni tubes,
are totally tubular,
with globs of Cheese Wiz.

barrie · Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:54 pm

"With globs of cheese, Wiz"
said Dorothy, "but just make
sure that it's cheddar."

Jester · Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:53 pm

Sure that it's cheddar -
gorge all you want as Summer
sets into Autumn.

juliadebeauvoir · Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:17 am

Sets into Autumn;
circled pyres sink ocre skies,
red love letters float.

barrie · Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:20 am

Red love letters float
unread in a sea of tears -
This is just not me!

kozmikdave · Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:57 am

This is just not me!
Really I'm Napoleon
Dressed in normal clothes.

barrie · Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:13 am

Dressed in normal clothes
the psycho was still psycho.
Clothes maketh the man?

Jester · Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:23 am

Clothes maketh the man
an image to fool himself -
hide from the bare truth.

barrie · Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:31 am

Hide from the bare truth
with bare-faced lies as cover,
poor transparencies.

Jester · Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:45 am

Poor transparencies
make for poorer viewing when
you're showing your slides.

kozmikdave · Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:52 am

You're showing your slides
to captive, bored relatives
wanting to go home.

barrie · Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:52 am

You're showing your slides
when people's eyes will be shut,
and all their backs turned.

kozmikdave · Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:05 pm

And all their backs turned
180 degrees
to front-facing heads

(3 types of people in this world - those who can count & those who can't!)

barrie · Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:25 pm

To front facing heads
I pose a simple question -
Who is behind you?

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