Genius! The girl's a genius! She's amazing! The way she got 'die' to rhyme with 'sky' is pure genius! She is wasted, we must be able to get her onto the X Factor at least! But guess that's about as likely as JfJfP allowing her back into the fold. Still we can at least get her a gig in Gaza, can anyone help with this, I can't sadly be of help as I have a life (and a country to support)!
Ben Zona | 03.16.08 - 4:03 pm | #

Run then, Ben Zona
With your pisspoor reading your
Country's a gonna
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 4:19 pm | #

Chosen people we
Between the river and sea
Everything for me

Star of David flag
O'er land of hope and glory
No other story

Israel goner
Zionists make aliyah
To California
Montag | 03.16.08 - 7:18 pm | #

Me, I'm strictly a palindrome guy.
mooser42001 | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 7:31 pm | #

No need to rhyme...traditionally speaking, they didn't. But, hey, I'm a freedom lover. If you want to rhyme'em, rhyme'em. More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku
MichaelRosen | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 8:32 pm | #

Very good Montag. I'm disappointed with you Mooser. I'm going to try and shame you with a palindromic haiku. I might be a while but while you wait check out weird al palindrome on youtube if you haven't already.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 8:33 pm | #

Michael - I think I actually knew that or I suspected it anyway because Richard Kuper did some good ones on the JPUK list. I liked to add a further, if you like, constraint to stop them going all over the place.

Mine are Limeraikus or Haikuricks.

Anyway, give it a whirl. You could win £50 from the JC. I've entered all of mine.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.16.08 - 9:50 pm | #

50 pounds is 30 pieces of silver indexed for inflation, no doubt. Sorry, couldn't resist. Do give us the winning composition though. Except be considerate and skim off some of the treacle first.
Montag | 03.17.08 - 2:52 am | #

What is Ben Zona going on about? Who has rhymed Skie with die? Who is jfjfp unlikely to 'allow' back into the fold?

If he is referring to me, jfjfp are trying to bring me back into the fold, but do I want to go there?!

Anyway, I suggest that if anyone wants to enter the competition, they shouldn't publicise them until they've sent them.

Here's one for old time's sake:-

The Satanic state
Shitty little country, oh
Israel, I'm ashamed
Deborah Fink | 03.17.08 - 3:02 am | #

honestly, anti-Israel/Zionist imagery aside, i thought it was quite mediocre, sorry.
michael hershkop | 03.17.08 - 3:03 am | #

P.S. it was the other Deborah's idea to send the competition to the JP list but she'd not been online recently, so I decided to.
Deborah Fink | 03.17.08 - 3:04 am | #

Ben Zona is a zionist troll who comes here and comments now and again to tell me that he has too much of a life to be coming here and commenting now and again. There are a few like that. He seems to think that you wrote the verses that I very clearly said that I wrote. Hence my reference to his "pisspoor reading". Not sure what he meant about a country to support.

Perhaps he could explain next time he's here.

Now your one was a proper one in that it doesn't rhyme but I always hated poetry at school that didn't rhyme. Limericks are better I think.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 7:37 am | #

And I've just noticed that in my ignorance I stuck an s on the end of haiku to make plural. The plural of haiku is haiku. I need to do more posts to distance myself from this one but I'm off to Ireland today.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 7:39 am | #

Fortress Israel
Off to a bad start
The rest of the Jews were smart.

(sorry - that was 5-5-7)
uh..clem | 03.17.08 - 8:12 am | #

Only a literary golem created by a wonder-Rabbi could compose a palindromic haiku. I could do it "if I had a hi-fi"
mooser42001 | Homepage | 03.17.08 - 3:50 pm | #

Rapturist Zion
Visions more Jews a dyin'
Hagee's just lyin'

CUFI does offend
Pretends to be our best friend
Prays that Jews will end
Luther Blissett | 03.17.08 - 10:47 pm | #

how about this one?

'self-deluded all
what comes after israel falls?
your throats will be cut'

self-hating jews are a disgrace.

i can only imagine what haikus you would have written in germany in 1941.
Matt | 03.21.08 - 6:49 am | #

We don't have to imagine what you would write whilst observing the current genocide, Matt. What did they ever do to you, other than have the misfortune to live where the great white men decided they'd next best grab land? Care for a little Santayana with your haiku?
Mae | 03.23.08 - 5:52 am | #

'i can only imagine what haikus you would have written in germany in 1941'

Probably something similar to:-

Zionist delight
They welcome the far right
Anti-Zionists fight
James O | 03.24.08 - 8:18 pm | #

James - he was asking me, not you. You're right though, I would have made the mistake of rhyming them but I would never have formatted 5,6,6.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.25.08 - 12:45 am | #

Mark - yes I was sacrifing poetic ability to make a fairly unsubtle political point.
James O | 03.25.08 - 12:47 am | #

I'm all for that as long as truth isn't a casualty, but then truth is a casualty of conventional war.
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.25.08 - 2:13 am | #

How about this....

Anti-zionist Jews
Elf and Rosen, marching alongside
those who kill Jews
Anonymous | 03.25.08 - 10:40 am | #

It's crap and it's got 19 syllables, not 17. And zionists are among "those who kill Jews".
Mark Elf (aka levi9909) | Homepage | 03.25.08 - 1:59 pm | #

Well, that's a matter of poetic taste, and i think the JC will overlook the 2 extra syllables, but i think much of its readership will appreciate the main point.
Anonymous | 03.25.08 - 2:06 pm | #

I could do it "if I had a hi-fi"

Is that from Fiddler on the Roof?
Justin | Homepage | 03.25.08 - 4:03 pm | #