Radical Budget Haiku
I didn’t think I could do it. But I’ve summed up the Republicans’ radical (Paul Ryan-authored) budget plan in a single haiku:
Republican plan:
End entitlements, send wealth
to entitled rich.
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UPDATE: Prompted by a poetry site to include this trio of words in a poem (adamant, fabricate, peculiar) I challenged myself to fit them all into a single haiku:
Republican pols —
peculiarly adamant
fabricators.
Tags: Budget Cuts, Economy Satire, Entitlements, Fiscal Crisis, Political Haiku & Senryu, Republican Plan
Why didn’t the UK Conservatives think of that…? … Oh, they did… many years ago!
Spot on post!
LOL! Thanks Stan! I thought surely I’d have to turn it into a tanka. Seventeen syllables sure was a challenge this time. :)
You’ve said a mouthful there, Madeleine.
Pamela
This makes it very clear. great work Madeline
You’ve captured the feeling well. nicely done.
What a rich source of humour and poetry are politics and politicians. It seems only right that as they play with their lives we play with them.
Hi Mad… love your humor !
great use of the three words wednesday prompt…
Thanks for joining in !
JL&B
Excellent! I love it!
Blessings
Adamant liars
Vomiting peculiarly
Fabricated dogma
Excellent!!!! Two haiku that are very apt for what is happening in Finland right now. General election coming up, and the Conservative leader is actually crying real tears in public because the True Finns party is making great gains.
Good game! Well played!!
Thanks so much to all of you for your enthusiastic words and your verse.
YOU DID IT !!!
and did it too well :D
Seems like a good plan…for the rich.
well done! funny but unfortunately true.
Mad Kane,
From news reports, I guess life is very difficult for everyone in USA as well as UK, these days!
Best wishes, Eileen
politics is like that.
what a tease.
Thanks everyone. Yes, it is all so sadly true.
well summarised!
Thanks Isabel!
so the comment is posted. loved the haiku, so very political scenario. every where.
trisha
Visitor
Thanks, Trisha!
Brilliantly penned, Mad!
Madeleine, of course, you know our politics match. If you ever made it to Madison, you would find yourself awash in the kind of hypocrisy that makes for excellent poetic fodder for such as we. Loved both takes, particularly your use of all three words in such a compact poem! Amy
Maybe Now
Thanks very much Kim and Amy!