Haiku Moments

[freedombecki]

The information I am using is from the White House website: The Presidents | The White House

 

[freedombecki]

Chester A. Arthur
Civil Service Commission
Immigration Law
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[freedombecki]

President Cleveland
decent man who got things done
unilateral
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[freedombecki]

billion dollar goal
Benjamin Harrison passed
naval expansion
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[freedombecki]

Grover Cleveland won
Second term and got married
presidential firsts
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[freedombecki]

William McKinley
served for the people in all
shot by anarchist
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[freedombecki]

Teddy Roosevelt
doubled our national parks
big stick policy
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[SayMyName]

Batteries are drained
Wife waits most impatiently
I curse to heaven

 

[SayMyName]

Message boards spewing
Profanity and threats reign
No one listening

 

[SayMyName]

Chicken sandwich lunch
A hot and spicy deluxe
Love that Chick-Fil-A

 

[freedombecki]

repairing at night
bacteria, viruses
white cells in body​

 

[freedombecki]

quiet passive lake
calm waters bright reflections
long beautiful day
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[freedombecki]

27
William Howard Taft
80 antitrust lawsuits
polarization
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[emilynghiem]

Coming home early
I catch my wife redhanded
stabbing some poet


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ps. this is actually an inside joke no one here will get.

Years ago I took a haiku from a college journal about "coming home
late to find her chipping the red paint off her fingernails"
and wrote this spoof on it. Sadly the original author was not amused.

 

[freedombecki]

28
President Wilson
graduated income tax
entered World War I
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[freedombecki]

29
Warren G. Harding
brought about prosperity
suffered heart attack
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[freedombecki]

30
Will Rogers once said,
"Congress wanted nothing done"
"and Coolidge done it"
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[Capstone]

Toilet paper gone,
the Klingons on Uranus
celebrating void...​

 

[freedombecki]

Message boards spewing
Profanity and threats reign
No one listening

Well, a lot of stupid goes on sometimes, SMN, but there's nothing I can do about it.
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[SayMyName]

Dinner with old friend
A good meal with lots of laughs
Time passes too fast