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Haiku Alley

Modern Haiku. The history of the modern Haiku dates from Masaoka Shiki's reform, begun in 1892, which established haiku as a new independent poetic form. Shiki's reform did not change two traditional elements of haiku: the division of 17 syllables into three groups of 5, 7, and 5 syllables and the inclusion of a seasonal theme.

Kawahigashi Hekigoto carried Shiki's reform further with two proposals:

  1. Haiku would be truer to reality if there were no center of interest in it.
  2. The importance of the poet's first impression, just as it was, of subjects taken from daily life, and of local colour to create freshness.

Well, we are having a gay theme. And we are inviting new Haiku all the time. If you want to submit one for approval, the form is right at the foot of the page. So read before you submit! [All Hiaku submitted remain the copyright of the stated author.]

Vote for any and all of the Haiku that you like. Come back often and vote for new ones, if you like them. We feature "Haiku of the Moment" on the home page, based on a mixture of parameters which are based around number of votes cast. Of course a new Haiku must have a valid chance of being "Haiku of the Moment" so we have rules in place to stop multiple voting for a particular haiku making it "supreme champion". In time all those submitted here will be Haiku of the Moment. The total votes cast is just that: total votes cast.

So, how does "Haiku of the Moment" work? Well, this is simple:

  • a simple majority gets the first one to the top of the list, or topples the current 'HotM'
  • a haiku may be 'HotM' for a maximum of X hours before the next most popular Haiku is selected
  • a toppled haiku may not be 'HotM' again until Y hours have elapsed and Z more votes have been placed for it
  • a haiku is only eligible to be 'HotM' at all if it has achieved a certain (and variable) number of votes, based upon the total number of votes cast in pre-existing 'HotM'
  • sensors on my roof and at the web hosting site detect wind direction. If both sensors are in the same hemisphere an even numbered haiku is selected, if in opposing hemispheres an odd numbered one, unless the wind speeds of both locations added together are over 43 knots, when this is reversed. If the wind speed in knots is a prime number this rule does not apply. Then a random selection of a high ranking prime numbered haiku is made
  • in the event of an inability to resolve which to make 'HotM', haiku 42 will prevail. The reasons are obvious.
  • all 'HotM' winners receive a rosette, a red one for each time they have been 'HotM' when they are toppled by the next one, and 5 red rosettes are compressed into one gold rosette. Current 'HotM' needs no rosette here

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Vote for all the Haiku that you like, not just one. The more the merrier.

A Whiff... A quick glance...
Did he really notice me?
Enough for love? Yes!
victalxw

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

A friend, unaware.
Looking at me but not truth;
Love hidden too well
Machelli

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 25

If you only knew
how you elevate my soul...
boy in girl's clothing.
Michael Sargeant

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

Four square and handsome;
Demure, sweet and confident.
Alabaster boy.
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 21

I undress my love,
Shirt, pants, briefs - and there he is,
Gloriously nude!
Happichappi

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 181

You see me naked
I, into your sultry soul:
Who has the best view?
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

My heart's on my sleeve.
Your flesh invades my essence.
I'm turned inside out!
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

mark my calendar
anniversary draws near
how could you forget
T. Luke McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

Hard-on in his shorts
His eyes fixed on eyes, alas,
It’s girl who caused it
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

He is tanned and lean
With white where I yearn to kiss.
I will drink him dry.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 223

He's back - my heart leaps!
I admire him from afar.
Impossible dreams.
Nick

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 221

Tim, Rick and Lewis
Forty long years have gone by
My love won't perish
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 35

Lust is selfish, quick.
Love is nurtured slow, strong, sure;
Your love makes me hard!
Sonny Williams

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

the way i love him
I cannot tell him that much
my heart i will give
jason

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 135

His eyes close when I
swallow his throbbing boyhood
and taste his sweet prize.
Sandy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 25

I can taste your kiss
I can feel the warmth from you...
How soon 'till we meet
P

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 23

beaautiful young man
i´d give you my soul and heart-
love kept unfulfilled
Isaias Ramos Garcia

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

I opened to you....
Nit picky little bitch... you !!!!
The depth of the pain !!!!!!
Paul

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 18

I read of his pain:
The cancer of the bone-soul.
Seasons all, they weep.
Ryan Holliday

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

Boy fourteen years old
Meets boy fourteen years of age
Instant love affair
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 67

I touch you touch me
touch lust touch joy touch bliss touch
love touch life touch God
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 13

If I've asked you once,
I've asked you a thousand times:
"Why do I love you?"
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 9

Sweet Nineteen dances,
strobes faster for wall-shadows
momentum him now
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

"He can never love.
Tortured and dead is his soul".
But I've heard you sing . . .
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 9

He hurt me! Tore me!
I needed love; he forced sex.
I hate the bastard.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 214

I gave you my heart--
Whose, then, is this in my chest?
seems to bear your name...
AJ

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 25

Go ahead. Jerk your
young boyfriend off, but who'll be
cleaning up the mess?
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 47

Late night the stars bright.
His angel eyes caress mine:
Take me my love, please!
Sonny Williams

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

We share a good laugh
And finally our eyes meet:
Love is spoken here.
brent

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 38

I wish that he would
Love me all of the TIME and
Not just in his DREAMS.
gary

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 14

Tim, Rick and Lewis
I think of you ev'ry day
Be my Valentines
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 30

It's not what he has,
It's that he has all of this
and loves only me.
Sam Hayes

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 76

Like sweet wine is he
He who resides in my heart
My reason to live
e

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 235

Click, click, ahh Click, click.
He giggles, I giggle too!
We kiss with braces.
Sonny Williams

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

Soft, sensual smile,
seductive sandalwood scent.
silky island boy.
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 6

Naked wedding night
ah, now I do understand
the name Micro Soft.
JON HOLD

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

"I'm gay," I told them.
"Why does that matter?" they asked.
I had no idea
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 130

He is just sixteen
Life's cruel blow, too young for me
I must shed seed now
Sprocket

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 46

Would you stunt your kids'
minds/spirit, feed them lead paint,
boot them from their homes?
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 13

His face, unaware
of my feelings, of my thougths
I'm tongue-tied again
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

I am as I am.
Thank you for understanding
And accepting me.
Neph

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 142

"Anne R. had our school's
fairest peach-skin, apple-cheeks"
[...So Did Her Brother!!]
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 27

"Best Thing In The Bar!"
(unannounced, unaccepted
award I'd bestow...)
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 13

Hands of an angel
hair made of gold, eyes of lust
he was never mine
ben

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 36

He made the sun rise;
I wanted him to love me...
I was his puppy.
Jingjok

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

Choose your love with care.
Put, to be compatible,
Round pegs in round holes.
Mihangel

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 167

golden hair astray
reflect the sun's warm embrace
reach my aching heart
Kingship

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 5

Your words made me smile
A text message compliment
I felt so alive
The Captain

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

I told him at last
He just smiled and said “Sorry,
I have a boyfriend”
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

In thru the out door
I am - Autumn's chill burns deep
into hearts warm blood
D'Artagnon

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 28

Pocket billiards is
far more exciting when played
as an away match.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 55

I am in hiding
Scared of the darkness outside
Yes, I'm gay - help me?
The Scholar

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 208

Why do boys have them?
Once I had kissed his nipple,
I soon understood.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 77

"Let's go and shower."
"Lewis, was I hearing right?"
A dream had come true.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 58

Shirtless men walking
Their dogs in hot noonday sun
... Erect, I pant pant!
pat

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 9

When snow is falling,
by blizzard billowed and blown,
he is my shelter.
ron

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 192

You are a dancer
Will you hold me and guide me?
I do want to learn!
The Captain

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 7

He's so cute and he
Turns me on so much it aches
Yet I know he's straight
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

We lived in silence,
The queer boys of the sixties.
Not much better now!
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 250

I watch him laughing;
I do not have permission.
He leaves with his friends.
Nick

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 211

The sea is gentle
It pumps into the tunnel
Of the man I love
Bretton

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

Do not! Must not! Can't
Tell you how much I love you -
Look into my eyes.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 175

i'll do what you ask
just don't whip me anymore
i get the message
T. Chase McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 7

Afraid I'll get hurt
They protect and shield my heart...
A boy in a cage !
Grasshopper

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 227

chat the gay chat room
the game is show or no show
been stood up before
T. Chase McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

howard sez "blow me"
i certainly wouldn't mind
but distance makes waste
Kenneth

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

In this rustic burg
who else but me frets alone,
came 3hree times today?
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

from my little man
a text which said i love you
my heart has melted
Gary

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

such a nice stomach
hairy pattern swirls around
bellyhole so deep
T. Chase McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

He came through the door,
I saw him across the room:
He conquered my heart
Mike

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 191

Thirteen years old, Straight.
Suddenly all changed inside.
Shock! Horror! "I'm gay!"
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 79

Smart?... "Cool"?... (Hot?...) Well, no.
Doesn't fit those "slots." [Why, then,
do I dig him so?]
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

I have always known.
So why did I get married?
A lonely coward.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 166

Fills me up inside,
Just like a kaleidoscope
Never lets you down.
rodneygabe

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

Gays in small hometown:
[mausoleum? vestibule?]
Ghostly. There. Not-there.
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

O bitter knowledge.
The power you have over me -
Forever secret.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 177

Slim youth glares at me
As he steps in to shower --
Is it a challenge?
Nels Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 18

You say, "Fuck me now!"
You're already all fucked up.
Maybe you mean "Love...?
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 3

What was it you said?
You would love me forever?
Where's forever now?
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

Someone said, "I'm scared"
Don't be! Reach out to your friends
We're all here for you
The Scholar

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 160

I'm so happy he cares
He's now told me he loves me
I'm floating on air
The Scholar

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 113

He was beautiful,
Standing naked before me.
Made me think of you.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 150

He is just a boy,
but he has the sweetest toy,
a taste brings me joy.
Sandy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 26

What is he thinking?
"Love me, hold me, for ever!"
That's what I'm thinking.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 126

Coming Out gives me
extra hands! New, core-seed self
looms up, smiles--content!
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

Why wont you share your
Irrisistible Warmness?
Too cold without you.
Wings

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

odyssey across
silky flesh of boyish ass,
fall into crevice.
Tony

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 43

his flesh fills my dreams
my knees shake when I see him
if he just was gay
Darren

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 173

rip my ass anew,
plunge me deeper to the depths
of fear. FUCK ME HARD!
trixie

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

He's made me afraid.
He hurt me badly today.
School: He outed me.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 231

Ill lungs and ill heart
Don't leave me, you're just fourteen
I love you my boy
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

I said "I love you",
but made sure he didn't hear.
Far too dangerous.
Nick

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 241

His beautiful lips
I kiss and in return I
get a huge hard-on
The Scholar

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 55

Afraid as a man
I hid in my false childhood.
You were never there.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 202

closet-male for male
who will not blow my cover --
surfing to Eagles!
pat

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

You’ll be a man soon
I loved you much, but I’ll search
… for a younger boy
Findelfin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 0

Four hands in the creek
Two boys with clothes soaked and wet
One confused crayfish
Patrick S.

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

He came, a sprig, fresh:
Love sworn to the end of time.
The trees are bare now.
Mike

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 171

from neck to navel
shape it in a defined line
happy trails to you
T. Chase McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

My heart touches yours
The dark places disappear:
Hold me forever !
Grasshopper

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 271

Passing in the hall
I lean and brush his shoulder:
Can he feel the heat?
Merkin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 32

He smiles as he talks
His eyes look deep inside me
Nothing can I say
Holly

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

If only he knew,
I'd do anything for him,
Why can't he be gay?
Michelangelo Valentino Menichini

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 18

I can't be with you -
Everything touched turns to dust
Don't know how to love.
Grasshopper

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 206

Steve, if you can sleep
with John Dixon, surely you
can with me? Get real.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 38

Will you leave or stay?
Or are you only a dream?
I must stop crying.
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

Gays on TV! Sneers!
[Gay kids sit inert aside]
(This was nationwide)
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 20

You are far away.
Across the world, our souls join -
You are in my heart.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 56

his flesh against mine
his hot breath against my neck
i lose myself now
Lan

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 46

"Queer!" they called us, and
"Poof!"; "Faggot!"; "Nancy!": Hate words.
"Gay" we never were.
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 245

Stripped, bound, and helpless,
Five pledges kneel before me.
Get me the crushed ice.
Mark Apoapsis

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

Chest muscles gleaming,
Barely illuminated
By the soft starlight.
Mark Apoapsis

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 18

Bring me o'er the world
My heart is open for you
To see I love you
MouSer

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 153

Secrets in darkness,
hidd'n in the past, long ago.
Will you still hold me?
Caeoiminhin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

He leans towards me
Whisper those two words to me
He said it "I'm gay"
Ben

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 43

I'm bisexual:
loving all beautiful men
gay and straight alike!
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 21

I wanted you so
much. And one day you came to
me. I love you Will!
Q-Ty

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 84

I am bone china.
Am on show for all to see.
"But I am a BOY!"
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 133

winter, cold and wet
playing boys, firm hot sweating
winter snow melting
john

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 24

Kiss him on the lips.
Let him put his tongue in first,
then you know he's yours.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 22

Daniel filled Sean with
his love juice. No one mentions
the shit on his cock.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 51

i savor this pain
my guy married his sweet girl
i just tagged along
mutnvill

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 18

At work I am straight;
I do not yet dare be me.
One day, some day soon?
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 240

Silence is golden
My body was a temple
I have been broken
Torb

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 8

Hands of an angel
and hair like autumnal wheat:
he's my sailor boy.
ron

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 110

Youth becomes wrinkled,
But inside our love remains;
Who cares if you snore?
Merkin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 14

Through lowered lashes
over cheeks and lips so soft,
he returns my glance
Merkin

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 34

On car's rear window,
old gay-pride flag still holds place.
Now pale... still, not torn...
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

I kissed my boyfriend.
He kissed me. Next day we woke
sporting two lovebites.
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 37

"You're so beautiful",
he tells the water spirit.
Narcissus, so vain.
Paul Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

If I could tell him
Show him what's inside of me -
I could breathe again
Grasshopper

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 224

Heart broken, hope gone,
I hurt every day for him,
I wish he was mine.
Brian

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 48

When he is not here
My heart is close to breaking.
I know he is safe....
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 73

What I am is me
What you see is what you get
Take it or leave it
The Scholar

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 195

love, we have not touched
but i know the depths of you
soul's mate, heart of mine
aj

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

Enigmatic boy
Totally ignores me, then
Walks, and smiles at me
timmy

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 4

it's so hot hot hot
burn your tongue if you don't stop
hairy nips ablaze
T. Luke McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 7

I've heard your music,
OK, seen your naked soul:
Love you all the more.
Steve

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 88

I see only him;
My mind thinks only of him.
Why can't he see me?
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 253

Love me gently now
Passion has long since been spent
But true love sustains
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 16

Yes, I am married
A roadblock that ties me down
Will you lust for me?
The Captain

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 9

Fair hair, eyes of blue,
With a charm that's all his own.
And he will be mine!
Neph

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 254

So close yet so far -
his beauty leaves me breathless.
Alas! I teach him.
Spunky Frog

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 128

White Hanes undies teased
ever so slowly downward
red hot sun rising
Trevor McConchie (Miruku)

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 173

In his hip pocket,
my business card bums a ride.
(Hugs butt, gets massaged...)
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 26

I greeted my friend
with a kiss on the lips. He
smiled: "Boys don't do that."
N Fourbois

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 29

Framed as he closed drapes,
he stood for his portrait for
me: jogging voyeur...
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

When I come to you
be beautifully naked:
It most becomes you.
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 11

Unreserved is love
Given without condition
Free from restriction
e

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 223

Seering was the fire
When you pierced my throbbing heart:
scorching love burst forth.
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

All day, printed up
"gay-lib" stuff. Then, ink-stained, glimpsed
sun-print on young cheek...
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

His face was once soft;
Where softness was, stubble grows.
I like his kiss now!
It's Only Me from Across the Sea

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 234

Autumn of our lives;
life has treated us badly.
Let´s only have love.
Isaias Ramos Garcia

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 1

We haven't met yet
But I feel you so near me...
Oh Love, please come soon !!!
p

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 23

Anticipation.....
Tip of my tongue peeking out
Taste me, love - taste me
Grasshopper

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 263

Internet friendship:
Though far away he's spunky.
Virtual huggings!
Neph

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 130

I look in his eyes,
My heart races, My soul melts,
I really love him.
Brian

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 81

Morphene DREAMS of John - - -
LONG nights, LONG moves - a LONG LOVE.
It should be ENDLESS!
Gary

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 7

Sweat and tears and cum . . .
The tart essences of love
sparkling on your smile . . .
P. Ingraham

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 5

feels real good don't it
mashing your crotch against mine
takes two to tango
T. Chase McPhee

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

I say "I love you"
As you walk away from me
If only you heard
Wil

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 24

Daydreaming in school
I wrap my arms around him
I can feel his warmth
TomS

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 251

"I TOLD Parents, Friends!"
(That same day some mopped up clean
out of mind that splash...)
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 10

Ports his radiance.
Sears our eyes, stings hands, churns guts.
[Turbulently Young...]
Brian Beck

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 12

I think I love you
As you look into my eyes
If only I'd speak
Wil

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 15

My eyes dart about
As the train slows to a stop -
He is here, somewhere
Kyle

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 145

Screw euphemisms!
Call me by my true name, not
by my 'condition'.
Neqs

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 226

Sweet plunge of nectar
Gasping between lips so rough
Unreality.
Jamie

I like this Haiku
Current Voting: 3

I want to hold him
to kiss, love and live with him
Dreams they are only
moonwolf