Forums:

Poo Haiku - won't you add your own?

Posts: 2679

Location: Phoenix, AZ (9b)

185

posted 4 years ago

In honor of the Composting Toilet kickstarter, Poo to Peaches, I wrote this Poo Haiku (Pooku??). I know you can too! Let your CT flag fly!

Haiku is 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"

Jennifer Wadsworth

Posts: 2679

Location: Phoenix, AZ (9b)

185

posted 4 years ago

Straining... waiting for
Nutrient dense excrement
To leave my backside

Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"

Eric Thomas

Posts: 130

Location: Northeast Oklahoma, Formerly Zone 6b, Now Officially Zone 7

posted 4 years ago

I can't pass (no pun intended) a shot at a haiku... This just off the top of my head (so to speak...)

Contemplating poo
resolved by fermentation
to calm my movement

Men argue, nature acts - Voltaire

Dave Burton

gardener

Posts: 4331

Location: Missoula, MT US Hardy:5a Annual Precipitation: 15" Wind:4.2mph Temperature:18-87F

1640

I like...

posted 4 years ago

Poo, adieu, little bit,
tiny little piece of shit,
nurturing the world.

Slurp and slop, kitchen mop,
Willow trees a poop beast be,
Eating like you an' me.

Adieu, adieu, pee-ew,
glistening steaming pile o' poo,
fueling trees and the seas.

A mound o' poo, thank you!
Rolling o'er the hills wi' me and you,
Sings the dung beetle

Bending over on knees,
plop, kerpuddle, poo a stew,
teaming with life and pee.

-I made these intentionally ambiguous.

Alea iacta est! / Welcome to Permies! / Permaculture Resources / Dave's Goods / Dave's Boot Adventures

Daniel Morse

Posts: 284

Location: SW Michigan

posted 4 years ago

Poo Poo I know you
Sitting so far making poo
Fell splosh into poo

I have never met a stranger, I have met some strange ones.

Daniel Morse

Posts: 284

Location: SW Michigan

posted 4 years ago

Corn peas what not grew
consumed by me and you so
all fall down as poo

I have never met a stranger, I have met some strange ones.

Jennifer Wadsworth

Posts: 2679

Location: Phoenix, AZ (9b)

185

posted 4 years ago

You guys ROCK! EXCELLENT work!

Subtropical desert (Köppen: BWh)
Elevation: 1090 ft Annual rainfall: 7"

Adam Geriak

Posts: 20

Location: Cape Cod, zone 7a

I like...

posted 4 years ago

Won't you add your own,
To the composting toilet?
Don't be scared of poo

wayne stephen

steward

Posts: 1748

Location: Western Kentucky-Climate Unpredictable Zone 6b

104

posted 4 years ago

Do not be ashamed
True value of poo golden
Compost is Freuds prune

For unlimited return on all your investments - Make your deposits at 'The Entangled Bank' !

Fred Tyler

gardener

Posts: 473

Location: St Paul, MN/Tularosa, NM and now a gapper at Wheaton Labs

284

posted 4 years ago

composting toilet
the missing link to complete
nutrient cycle

Fred Tyler

gardener

Posts: 473

Location: St Paul, MN/Tularosa, NM and now a gapper at Wheaton Labs

284

posted 4 years ago

waste turned to resource
building excellent soil
to help our gardens

Chad Sentman

pollinator

Posts: 435

I like...

posted 1 year ago

Terra Preta Sanitation explained in Haiku form:

Fermented urine.
Fermented feces with char.
Vermicomposting.

Check out my newest project at http://www.stadtfarm.com http://www.twitter.com/stadtfarms or https://www.facebook.com/StadtFarm/

Red Smith

Posts: 45

Location: N. Idaho

posted 1 year ago

perhaps twould be best to eschew
wrapping the wondrous form of Haiku
too intimately around .....poo

No matter the wonderous things it do
for all things crawling or greenly grew
Haiku and ...poo, won't do.

Nothing is impossible to a sufficiently talented fool!

John Weiland

pollinator

Posts: 1331

Location: RRV of da Nort

160

posted 1 year ago

And what of cat

scat that finds home too

oft outside the rim

“The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.”― Albert Einstein

Bettina Bernard

Posts: 30

posted 1 year ago

Winter's frozen mound
Cycle not yet completed
Waiting to inhale

Karen Donnachaidh

gardener

Posts: 1508

Location: Virginia (zone 7)

350

I like...

posted 1 year ago

Watch where you're stepping!
"Landmines" placed strategically
By my sweet doggy.

She can't use toilet
Therefore, I must get used to
Jumping over piles.

With forty shades of green, it's hard to be blue.
Garg 'nuair dhùisgear! Virtutis Gloria Merces

Nicole Alderman

master steward

Posts: 10054

Location: Pacific Northwest

3941

I like...

posted 1 year ago

My husband's:

I held it too long
When I went, I sang a song
Neighbors hit their gong

I forgot my shoes
Went to do a number two
Don't forget your shoes

No one was around
So I didn't lock the door
Someone was around

Ran out of TP
I had to stand up one time
to get more TP

Nothing brown was there
I sat down, then looked around
Something brown was there

It would not flush down
It was long and hard and brown
Poop knife took it down

Mirror wasn't clean
I dressed up and looked so nice
People were so mean

I left the sink on
I went to the gro-cery store
Now I live like fish

I thought you were cute
Then you made a number two
I gave you the boot

Baby crawled on in
We told her it was a sin
To put something in

Toilet wouldn't flush
We dug in and found some mush
Part of a hair brush

Went to be alone
No computer and no phone
Fingers under door.

I ate too much food
Went to do what doozers do
Load of bubbling crude

I had a pet bird
I made a gigantic turd
I have no pet bird

~ Dragons, Fairies and even a Mini-Paul! ~ You Know You're a Permie When...~ All About Permies, including tutorials ~Herbal Hugel Spiral of Randomness!~Tricks to Keep the Dirt from Sliding off a Hugel~List of Cascadia Bloggers and Facebook Pages!~

community living - sand badge (verified skill)
Skill verified by paul wheaton

oddball - sand badge (verified skill)
Skill verified by Shawn Klassen-Koop

animal care - sand badge (verified skill)
Skill verified by Mike Jay Haasl

textiles - sand badge (verified skill)
Skill verified by r ranson

nest - sand badge (verified skill)
Skill verified by Mike Jay Haasl

Chad Sentman

pollinator

Posts: 435

I like...

posted 1 year ago

Biodynamics:
The skulls of my enemies
Are my toilet bowls.

Check out my newest project at http://www.stadtfarm.com http://www.twitter.com/stadtfarms or https://www.facebook.com/StadtFarm/

Chris Kott

pollinator

Posts: 3119

Location: Toronto, Ontario

383

I like...

posted 1 year ago

To poo, in Winter
it is too cold, in the snow
So we feed willows

-CK

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Jeff Marchand

Posts: 105

Location: Eastern Ontario

I like...

posted 1 year ago

With apologies to Ezra Pound (In a Station of the Metro)

The apparition of these feces in the leaves:
Petals in a wet, black bucket.

The sun's a light bulb and the moon is a mirror-- Gord Downie

Cris Fellows

Posts: 108

Location: Youngstown, Ohio

I like...

posted 1 year ago

This is not haiku but it was a favorite adaptation when my boys were young. Sung to tune of the scarecrow' s "If I only had a brain" from Wizard of oz.

I have to take a poopy
I think it will be soupy
It won't be hard or long
It will run right down my trousers
It will fertilize your flowers
When my poopy comes along.

😂

Together is our favorite place to be

Güneş Bodur

Posts: 18

posted 11 months ago

Hail to the holy shit
That always kept us well fed
The compost worm said.

Greg Mamishian

Posts: 499

Location: Rural Unincorporated Los Angeles County Zone 10b

posted 11 months ago

I doo sudoku
on a five gallon bucket
always time well spent

Stuart Sparber

Posts: 125

I like...

posted 8 months ago

Oh waste not want not.
What's better than a drop in
The bucket for Life?

Charlotte Boord

Posts: 8

Location: western Central Texas Zone 8a/8b

posted 7 months ago

If I'm not too late:

Haiku gives to poo
a more legitimate feel
in words but not touch.

Albert Szilard

Posts: 4

Location: targu mures Romania

posted 7 months ago

Hi all I was stroke by inspiration
Oh my dear poo and wee
Smelly taboo energy
Never lost always transform
In the wild swiftly change form
As I am hiding under the bush
If dehydrated struggle to push
Scared and looking around
Ups I lost another pound
Dropped it on a leafy layer
Shortly I can hear it in the air
It's a fly I guess an egg layer
Happy like a inaugural mayor
As I sit here and compose
You shrink change colour decompose
To nourish the nearby rose
In need for this boosting dose.
Hope you find it funny.

spread the message

Charles Reed

Posts: 29

Location: Terlingua, TX

posted 3 months ago

heal our mother earth
dung beetle feeder I got
wherever I squat

Charles Reed

Posts: 29

Location: Terlingua, TX

posted 3 months ago

poo ball rolling by
nutrient reuse that's it
thanks oh dung beetle

Ty Greene