Haiku of Ismail Ax

you have raped my soul
you have vandalized my heart
you torched my conscience

your cars and baubles
trust funds and debaucheries
vodka and cognac

everything you have
fills your hedonistic needs
but still not enough

i could have just left
i didn't have to do it
i could have just fled

for all those you fucked
i am no longer running
i did it for them

Haiku of Gene Ray

yclop perspective
taught android mentality
lobotomized brain

singularity scholar
eat cow dung ambrosia
acknowledge the math

clock faces are wrong
greenwich mean time is a lie
cubelessness nonsense

students will awake
from academic stupor
and seek their revenge

Haiku of Toyama Koichi

i despise you all
people who have supported
this fucked up country

you foolish voters
who dream of reform or change
nothing will be solved

elections are just
festivals for the fat cats
they won't change a thing

the minority
no longer ask anything
such a sorry state

we must abandon
this detestable nation
scrap and scrap and scrap

look at my posters
hear my terrifying plans
give me a phone call

Haiku of Krauses

shame on betrayers
who have forsaken your faith
why are you sitting

whose side are you on
in the latest civil war
sunni or shiha

when brave knight enters
parliamentarian apes
cry and scream in terror

what were they thinking
the arrows of righteousness
kidnapped the krauses

Haiku of Kurt Vonnegut

the meaning of life
we're on earth to fart around
one day at a time

kindness to others
if this isn't nice what is
how to get along

saints are all around
people acting decently
in a world gone mad

music makes you free
the life you know is ending
practice once a night

some of our people
are richer than whole countries
they run everything

no shoes at airport
terrorists hate smell of feet
now we can feel safe

addicted to oil
george bush is a plagiarist
i ought to sue him

jesus used to be
so merciful and loving
now he's just a brand

Haiku of Common Dreams

Helena Cobbam

troop surge in iraq
best outcome we could hope for
postpone the breakdown


Holtzman and Cooper

take out attorneys
replace them with your cronies
win next election


Richard Behan

hydrocarbon law
sharing the wealth of iraq
among the bushies


Garrison Keillor

current occupant
goes for a walk in the park
and nobody cares


Amy Goodman

grim experiment
sit march write donate demand
get rid of gitmo


Robert Sheer

we shot pat tillman
and blamed it on the bad guys
poster boy for war

Haiku of Iraq in Fragments

change men's hearts and minds
with the barrel of a tank
it's impossible

we want to close
the doors of depravity
left by invaders

rockets and bullets
violence and suffering
whose side is god on

america's reach
pervades our society
no one can escape

our town is empty
only ghosts of our fathers
blowing in the wind

Haiku of Jihad

Hassan Rashid al-Beleid

colonization
our land is sold in silence
yankees steal the oil


Soliman al-Somali

brother come forward
buy eternity from god
sacrifice your soul


Omar al-Baghdadi

dogs of maliki
we have for you who sold out
nothing but the sword

Haiku of Common Dreams

Robert Dreyfuss

the lie factory
coming apart at the seams
neocon kool-aid


John Nichols

once a grand legion
coalition of willing
down to a handful


Molly Ivins

hillary clinton
there are others to choose from
disqualify her


Helen Thomas

let's go bomb iran
they might be helping bad guys
red hot baloney

Haiku of Jihad

Uthman bin Abdul Rahman al-Tamimi

our beliefs were built
on the skulls and the corpses
of the companions


Ayman al-Zawahiri

crusaders' presence
in our occupied homelands
must provoke jihad


al-Furqan Foundation

land of two rivers
humiliates and harvests
invader piggies


Islamic State of Iraq

dignified exit
british lapdog of cheney
knows when to give up

Haiku of Faith

The mindset behind Haiku of Jihad has led me to other sources of inspiration than the SITE, as can be seen from the entries by Hugo Chavez and Bill Moyers. It has also led me to other causes and beliefs that are likewise stated eloquently but not based on Jihad per se. For lack of a better name, I call these Haiku of Faith. Not necessarily the blind Faith of religious fundamentalists and such, but rather a firm belief in one's personal convictions or opinions. This opens a door to lots of possibilities ...


M.L. King Jr, on Unity ... march for equal rights speech

we must learn to live
together as bretheren
or perish as fools


Brian Wilson, on Loyalty ... surf music song lyric

be true to your school
just like you would to your girl
let your colors fly


James Toney, on Achievement ... after losing to Samuel Peter

you can't say he won
he looks just like larry holmes
all ugly and shit

Haiku of Jihad

We all know that the War on Iraq was a bad idea that became an even worse reality, and that the War on Terror was a vague public relations scam that evolved into 9/11 as a letterhead for everyone's prior agendas.

I searched the web to see what the terrorists have to say about all this, and found several sites that list the origins, philosophies, and affiliations of all the major groups, along with a digest of current news releases from their media outlets. The latter include numerous anti-U.S. speeches saying that they despise American influence in their homelands and will not tolerate the continued occupation by invaders. The rhetoric of these speeches inspired me to create a new word game I call Haiku of Jihad.

This was done as a means of entertainment, with no intent to serve any audience other than myself or advance any political movement. After I collected several pieces and developed a method and style, I decided to post them to share with others.

The object of the game is to write a haiku poem based on an inspirational speech quotation.

see how they curse us
propagandists in tokyo
haiku of jihad



These are my first efforts...


Hossam Abdul Raouf

the world must decide

to be with america

or be against it

Salah al-Din

we prefer our death

more than living in shadow

of heathen squatters

Abu Obieda

they are dirty pigs

that soil themselves in the swamps

evil thoughts and deeds

Eulogy for Abu Musab

losers and failures

you enemies of allah

what's left will hurt you

Islamic Jihad

the yankee army

has gone from proud conquerors

to trembling rabbits

al-Rashideen Army

you cannot recruit

enough new soldiers to fill

the flesh and blood gap

Hamas

the vermin will have

only the chance to prepare

luggage or coffins

Raed Hijazi

the season is nigh

and the bodies of heathens

will pile up in sacks

Bayan al-Khaby

death certificates

have them with you at all times

we'll fill in the date

Algerian Salafist Group

tears of the orphans

grief of the childless mothers

yet we are coming

Abu Abdullah al-Hassan bin Mahmoud

avoid oppression

as such will bring you darkness

for eternity

This one had too much to say for one entry, so I tried multi-haiku.....

Abdul Hadi

the infidels came

to these our most sacred lands

and new hope was born

the defiant youth

would not submit to the new

evil world order

they shook off the dust

that had built up over time

and took from its pack

their precious burden

of brilliantly writ slogans

and ringing speeches

they ran to the light

the brotherhood of mankind

no god but allah



Don't limit yourself to Islamists. Eloquent sentiment is everywhere out there in medialand...

Hugo Chavez, at the U.N.

bush is the devil
his hand prints from yesterday
still smell of brimstone


Bill Moyers, on media reform

this country of ours
will die of too many lies
if we don't speak out