Haiku Poetry Sites Bring out the Poet in Web Surfers

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Byline: Stacey Cara Cohen Daily Herald Staff Writer

Internet haiku

poorly written, weird subjects

the mind does boggle.

Bill Bixby haiku. "NewsRadio" haiku. Fruit fly haiku.

It seems haiku, the ancient form of Japanese lyric poetry, brings out the poet in people. While most follow a three-line, 5-7- 5 syllable style, some poems have fewer syllables.

That said, a few haiku sites stand out from the rest. The first, Haiku-o-Matic, has been around for a long time.

Go to www.smalltime.com/nowhere/rhubarb/haiku.cgi. Here you'll get the gist of most Web haiku: very bad, but often quite amusing. The site offers a constant …