UnPoetia:Haiku 457b

Poetry for people who hate poetry

Haiku 457b is one of the most popular haikus from the "Bumper Book of Haiku - Volume 5: Haikus About Haikus" by Yoko Homo. Volume 5 contained Haiku 401 to 500. This was notable as some of the haikus have more than one part. The most popular haiku was 457b, as listed below.

This is a haiku

I even counted the syl-

Lables to make sure.

Other notable haikus from Volume 5 included Haiku 406a:

Don't you just hate it

When you're writing a haiku

And don't get to fin-

And also 411a:

This is my four hund-

Red and eleventh haiku...

I'm getting quite bored.

Roger "Sun Yat" Ebert, noted haiku critic, said his personal favorites from the new volume were 450a, b and c:

The worst thing about

Haiku is that they do not

Rhyme with anything.

That said, haiku could

Rhyme with something like "Why coo?"

Or maybe "Like you"

Yes, that's good, haiku

Can be used to rhyme with gay

Stuff like "I like you".