economy haiku:

do Americans
need more debt available?
I need more income

The Slip was light blue,
However, I find myself
Just as unemployed.

I should not have slept
Through so many math classes.
Interest only loan.

You're firing me eh?
Well, I am shtupping your wife!
Downsize that, you ass.

Unemployment lines.
They stretch past my office door.
Get a job, hippie!

I can't justify
That new hi-def TV set
While NPR's free.

The match was hungry
When fed it gave and took back
Receipt cold and black

Makes no difference,
pyrite, twenty-four carat;
fool’s gold, all of it.

White shirt, light starch, tie,
collar and cuffs all business;
the noose is quite pleased.

Whispers on Wall St.
world dies from speculation.
Who will redeem us?

Making big bucks with
Creative securities
Some one else will pay

One who holds their cash
Bad for the economy
Spend what you don't have

Soon what you don't have
Like moss on a stagnant stone
Spreads over the world

Another old lie
Hi, I'm from the government
I'm here to help you

The big banks were bad
They misused all of their cash
Let's give them some more

The banks want new cash
Loan out the old to get new
Nope, I don't think so

Is there God or cash?
You can hold cash in your hands
But what do you have?

San Francisco trains

charge through the shopping district

I still see full bags.

My dipshit friends are
quitting their full-time jobs--they
don't read the paper.

Here is my Haiku on the economy:

Avaricious Man!
Dante has a place for you.
Abandon all Hope.

He's the closest thing we have to the outline of punishment and it is grime. The second line could end with "us" because as part of humanity I will include myself. We watch Dickens' Christmas Carol every year and still we learn nothing.

CONTRAST

The economy
Crashes, As calmly I type
My research paper

My economy-inspired haiku:

Fear freezes my heart,
Jobs and money disappear,
At least love is free.

Heard the haiku last Saturday. Besides forgoing the 5-7-5, it was awful. Shame on them for sending it and you for broadcasting it, but it did inspire me. Now THIS is haiku:

SHAME ON EVERYONE

Bandits on Wall Street
While Washington fast asleep.
Now, subprime haiku !

My friend is frightened

face taught with anxiety

third shift, IBM

Oligarchy reigns!

President Obama --

please dethrone them.

Once singing jingle
My pocket depth whispers
only of borrowed lint

Ballooning payment
Hindenburging while it grows.
Going down in flames.

Listening to your program on Saturday morning I heard your haiku entries and stopped in my tracks. I work for a branding/grahic design studio and we started a haiku contest at Christmas and asked for entries and we did the same for Valentine's Day. We've had such good responses from our clients/friends/prospects - everyone seems to love haiku and is so willing to give it a try. We're going to be continuing our haiku contest for the rest of 2009 and then publishing a book with submissions.

It must be kizmet
To ask, to write, to submit
Words for life and all

Here's a link to our site and haiku contest
http://strategy-studio.com/workclient.asp?client=Haiku&newsitem=true

Thanks! Melissa Draper
www.strategy-studio-com

A Haiku:

Following the thread
To the center of the maze:
What awaits us there?

outside looking in (out)
emotion, confusion stirs
stand tall start anew

The above comment from me is three haiku, but the format did not allow me spaces between poems. Please forgive...should I have made this message a haiku, too??

My job expires
My hopes swell to the surface
A dream and a prayer

Short on cash again
Eating beans for lunch and sup
Bloated on empty

Stocks diving again
Thankfully no margin calls
When will I see green?

Schools cutting money
Teaching on the chopping block
The future slighted

Two Haiku for Today's Economy

Stretch your dollar, or
Tighten your belt. Either way
It's gonna hurt. Ouch.

The mall...Much beckons.
Want it? Yes! Need it? No. Sigh.
Avert eyes. Walk on.

My parents told me

Son, save for a rainy day

Is that rain I hear?

Economy Haiku: Pain, no Gain:

Warnings kept in shade

Danger lurked in every trade

Lies to reach the moon

*****

Ethics compromised

Falsehoods, treasures, overprized

Pain will teach us soon.

excessive capitalism

why does someone have
to make profit in order
for us to live well

Summa Cum Laude
Ah, higher education!
Now I sell groceries.

Three forty for milk

Dairy product of the gods

I'd like to meet this cow

Unregulated-
Bernie made-off with the cash
Ponzi's unclean hand

Either to or fro,
without regard for your tears,
equilibrium.

Bubble now busted.
Will the new king save us all?
Nationalize me.

Highly leveraged
Most flew too near the sun, now
All investments fall

Thanks for your good work.
You've been a great employee.
Now you must go. Sad.

the economy, in three parts

big surplus plundered
one heck of a job Bushie
then he walks away

giant bonuses
for doing a lousy job
hey, i could do that

deregulation
a culture of wanton greed
this can't go badly

i am unemployed
okay, now what do i do
well, start a business

Financial Aid Form Haiku

Hate FAFSA form hate
The Profile even more hate
Being told I'm poor.

Haiku on the economy:

Titanic Wall Street
breaks apart on a bubble,
Revealing its greed.

Our finance system
founders and quickly freezes.
IRAs shudder.

Madoff's Ponzi scheme
deceives faithful investors.
Charities lose hope.

This season of fear
Worries drift, always shifting
We will wade through them.

Change is no destination,
Hope, no strategy;
What got us here is no "out"

The homeless man begs.
But I think him beneath me.
Soon we will be equals.

The market in turmoil.
I’m beside myself with worry.
The sunset makes me smile.

We bemoan the loss
of an almond Frapaccino.
A child dies in Africa.

Where is my lotto ticket?
It taunts me from the fridge door.
I don’t dare check it.

I dropped out of college.
Threw caution to the wind.
My father was right!

Geitner and Daschle
their taxes they did not pay.
Look the other way.

Just as I was on track
the economy collapses.
My retirement harkens.

Haiku I can watch the inauguration all day today. I'm unemployed.

careless borrowers
now sad, and many homeless
will O'Bama help

----------and-----------

greed is the clear cause
unemployment everywhere
hopeful news needed

Wall St.

Fortress of stone built
upon a sky-borne boulder
Don't look down, stupid!

Title: Chauncey Gardiner's hedge fund and hedgerow prognostication.

GROUNDHOG SEES SHADOW
Last six weeks of winter
Cherry blossoms bloom

(1)
wall street millionaire
k street mogul-lobbyist
the poor are still poor

(2)
fox guards the hen-house
unraveling schemes of greed
is impossible

(3)
'made off' with my money
'milk-em' but don't kill the cow
let sleeping dogs 'lay'

greenbacks asunder
Wall Street Titans Falling Fast
Hit the ground...running

four haiku'd thoughts:

flip side of crisis
opportunity, knock here
fresh food awaits you

educate children
financial literacy
big words, small actions

we are citizens
it is up to us to act
democracy now

pushing through the snow
green shoots of life emerge today
empower yourself

counting grains of rice
navigating the darkness
uncomfortable

What goes up must come down
yet the rich get richer
the poor get poorer

The Chistmas Commute (2008)
-
Shuffle, shuffle, clop
Heads held low, in we go
-
Houses, Range Rover and pedigree dog
Only losers don’t live high on the hog
Student loans, car loans, mortgages and more
More, more, more
-
Buy it, spend it, use it, spoil
Private school and country club
Keep up the toil
-
Shuffle, shuffle, clop
Heads held low, in we go
-
Bank failure, leverage and scam
Christmas Spirit
Why don’t I go out on the lamb?
-
My wife is the best
But why can’t she, rest?
Over evaluate, under-reconcile
When will we just smile?
-
March in, March out
What is it you are worried about?
Its a wonderful life
Stoic, stiff upper lip
Can’t you just live life a little bit?
-
Shuffle, shuffle, clop
Heads held low, in we go
-
Army ant? Or, worker bee?
Can’t you see? Me?
I better not miss the 6:23
-
My kids, my keys, oh please
Just where are my keys?
-
My kids sleep, week after week
I see them, asleep
Morning and night, I know!
Its not right
-
Headlights rumble, tracks shake
No-one is awake
Ka-clack, overeducated, ka-clack, underappreciated
Ka-clack, undereducated, ka-clack, overstressed
Rat race, better touch base
Tickets, please
Headlines race, red face
Tickets!!
-
Heaven help me, its Christmas
-
Shuffle, shuffle…Stop!
-

Barack Obama,
Deliver us from trauma.
Give us stimulus.

At 7 a.m. only,from the subway crossing
the Manhattan Bridge,
Wall Street still appears golden
in the light of the rising sun.

A lady in her mink coat cuddling her
pooch - in cashmere, of course
(fast forward Paris Hilton 60 years);
slightly confused, in the corner of 5th and 50th
trying to hail her own taxi...

HaikuFinance

Man turns over a new leaf

Not Realizing

He lives inside a jungle

Kurt made us think

If more people did it

Bush would be

Just a passing thought

Change, change, change makes cents.
But what will give us dollars?
Hope is essential.

clouds smother the sun
spiny eels burrow to hide
faint light to warm drafts

economy haiku submission:

Titans of finance
turned into Wall St. wimps when
the clock struck midnight.

economy haiku submission:

A family sleeps inside
the foreclosed, half-built house
next door. Don't tell.

Miss Money's makeover:
hair and nails, trimmed and colored.
"put it on my card."

the great depression?
please, let's get some perspective.
that was whale, this fish..

Market Share

The flea takes little.
No lump sum debt, no tax cut.
Bite! Then skidaddle!

CONVERSION:

Thirteen to seven

Sounding cold and technical

Means they've lost the house.

Haiku Challenge

the paper profits
blown and strewn
dandelion dust

In the Suburbs
I
February ice
Unforgiving chill of white
And unopened bills
II
Coupons, mastercards
Budgets, kids hair all scissored-
Slim contrivances
III
Hand knit,painted, stewed
And hammered:old skills renewed
Like library books
IV
Housewives are dyeing
Their own hair, shrouding grayness
with color, doubtful.

Humpty's Financial Haiku

Another wind blows
Nest egg falls off the Wall
Street shell yolk broken

new paradigm time
do not focus on your wealth
see what matters most

will work for food
an ant carries a moth
along the sidewalk

the crash of wave
half of the castle
flows into the sea

my old boss talks
to an empty cubicle
the autumn wind

My fledgling savings
turned inside out,
an empty pocket.

on a crooked street
a businessman blows bubbles
the noontime moon

I enjoyed the Katy Lederer interview.

Here is my haiku on the financial crisis:

Catching Up

The sighing bus melts
the snowy streets. Out of cash
and card, I take warmth.

learn to sacrifice

unvarnished nails look pretty

read to your children

subprime mortgages
enrons and ponzi schemes
the eye of the storm?

education cuts
tuition escalating
ketchup soup again

million, billion, trill...
our bread line lengthens daily
pigeons wait for crumbs

Noah is a wise 12-year-old!

Old corporation lays off 500,
Young father sobs "Why me?"
Pistol barrel tastes cold in his mouth.

Haiku

Vanity and greed
You and I scoot for the loot
Love is what we need

Haiku

Mystery solved
Over spend under work wilt
Work hard spend less thrive

Haiku

Live without cable
be productive learn anew
lead by example

BUSINESS CYCLE

moon-made ebb and flow
leaves jellyfish at our feet.
but look -- sand dollars!

The dream is over,
the nightmare of not enough
Awake, now fulfilled

For the Financial Crisis Haiku:

Change

Coin change, changed
By magicians' crushing.
Splash is absent!

A Thin skin remains
To shield against the wind, rain.
Let all build roof, wall.

haiku:

retired too soon
waiting for the monthly check
snowdrifts are growing

Naked before you
I stand; you lie, nude, silent,
Impenetrable

A world full of things
promise the growth never ends
maybe zero sum game

Dust bowls blow waft bonds.
"Keep moving, no jobs here."
Crooks get paid sick days?!?!

Greed will wither
Like a weed bends
Despair
$
Weeds give us nothing
Greed gives us heartaches
Not fair
$
Money is the root
Man is the planter
Nothing grows
$
Gold in the hand
Feels good
Brings sorrow
$
Stocks on paper
What dreams are made of
Gambling
$
Dreaming lives
Reality lives
Despair lives longer
$
Throw of the dice
Seven come eleven
No, snake eyes
$
Fool me once
Fool me twice
My fault
$
Here today
Future tomorrow
Uncertainty
$
A bird in the hand
Flew away
Left me poop

Philip Lustig Downingtown, PA

Taking a deep breath,
The day will go on till night.
Small breaths keep you sane.

Food Emporium:
behind the condom rack
bananas going soft

Market Share

The flea takes little,
No lump sum debt, no tax cut.
Just bite, then spittle.

we populate our dreams
with people
we will never meet

Katy Lederer broadcast on leaving her chosen field of poetry to go into the financial world was knowledgable. Poetry and financil goes hand-and-hand. It is like Lamentation in the Book of the Bible which speaks of the World going into some type of Great Depression and a Love Poem to God about the experience he was going through with the world's chaos. It is just like me that for the last 19 years I have been experienceing my own wilderness expereince and the weight of the world on my shoulders of it. God told me to finally get up from my peoples house in Washington, DC to move to Seattle, Washington on August 22, 2008 and I arrived here on August 28, 2008 by Greyhound bus safely and saw all the country side of God's green earth to know that the world is headed for more troubled if they do not stop what they are doing with all these wars and get in line with God's plans not the Devil's who cannot never keep the economy from a financial destruction that will bring the whole world to its's knees and worship Christ and know that he is God and Christ does not only save lives. He saves the financial economies as well not the Devil who all seems to want to worship, praise and give the Glory and Honor too not Christ and God.

When Repo Trucks troll
Don’t laugh when these sharks glide bye
your bill filled mail box

Resubmitted, clarified:
1.
Buildings fall like stocks
Architects go to prison
Financiers retire
2.
Falling markets turn
IRA's to IOU's
FDIC? Why?
3.
My failing practice
With little to do - At last
I can enjoy it

My haiku

Family

College kids' jobs gone
Dad works until older age
Nana needs Medicaid

Buildings fall like stocks
Architects go to prison
Financiers retire

Falling markets turn
IRA's to IOU's
FDIC? Why?

My failing practice
With little to do - At last
I can enjoy it

(By the way, Ellen, I want to thank you for your submission. Despite the tone of mine I think that some good will come out of all this!)

A halt to getting
and spending. Buyers beware:
Greed gives way to fear.

1)
Everything in ruin;
true——but in the winter sky
there she is, the moon.

2)
Will this ever end?
Will spring find her way again?
Time to call a friend.

Hi Philip -- go ahead and write your haiku here, as a comment. And if you'd rather submit it privately, paste it into the e-mail frame -- since the poem is only a handful of syllables, it should fit (if not, submit it in several parts -- we'll get it). Thanks for writing!

Green branch bent aside
makes way the long looked path.
Forgive the bent branch!

Soaring overhead

They gather in Bowling Green

To tear at the meat

To see more "bankruptcy haiku" go to http://bankruptcybill.wordpress.com/bankruptcy-haiku/

Indignation and

Litigation all for two

Cents on the dollar

To see more "bankruptcy haiku" go to http://bankruptcybill.wordpress.com/bankruptcy-haiku/

Consumers suffer

But my main worry: How to

pronounce BAPCPA?

CreditSlips.org (http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2008/11/bankruptcy-bill.html) has a post about "bankruptcy haiku" (http://bankruptcybill.wordpress.com/bankruptcy-haiku/) taken from the Bankruptcy Bill cartoon strip (http://bankruptcybill.wordpress.com).

This is my haiku about the financial crisis

A balloon of greed
A pin of reality
A balloon deflated

Economy

A trout turns and rises,
leaves float on -
the rush of clear water over rocks.

Your SUBMIT YOUR HAIKU ABOUT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS...above, does not show or explain how or where to submit my haiku's.
Clicking on 'email' gives little space to attach..or, in fact, no place to attach..what gives?

What is the email address...what is the procedure?

let me know...thanks

CALVIN

Coolidge dies of depression in the Depression.

ABC SCRAWL

BUSH TO ADDRESS NATION ON FINANCIAL CRISIS 9PM.
Oh no, David Blaine is killing himself on ABC at 9PM.
"Two total idiots," my 12-year-old son notes.