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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.

CALVIN

Coolidge dies of depression in the Depression.

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

Economy

A trout turns and rises,

leaves float on -

the rush of clear water over rocks.

This is my haiku about the financial crisis

A balloon of greed

A pin of reality

A balloon deflated

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).

Indignation and

Litigation all for two

Cents on the dollar

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

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/

Green branch bent aside

makes way the long looked path.

Forgive the bent branch!

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!

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.

A halt to getting

and spending. Buyers beware:

Greed gives way to fear.

(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!)

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

My haiku

Family

College kids' jobs gone

Dad works until older age

Nana needs Medicaid

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

When Repo Trucks troll

Don’t laugh when these sharks glide bye

your bill filled mail box

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.

we populate our dreams

with people

we will never meet

Market Share

The flea takes little,

No lump sum debt, no tax cut.

Just bite, then spittle.

Food Emporium:

behind the condom rack

bananas going soft

Taking a deep breath,

The day will go on till night.

Small breaths keep you sane.

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

Dust bowls blow waft bonds.

"Keep moving, no jobs here."

Crooks get paid sick days?!?!

A world full of things

promise the growth never ends

maybe zero sum game

Naked before you

I stand; you lie, nude, silent,

Impenetrable

haiku:

retired too soon

waiting for the monthly check

snowdrifts are growing

A Thin skin remains

To shield against the wind, rain.

Let all build roof, wall.

For the Financial Crisis Haiku:

Change

Coin change, changed

By magicians' crushing.

Splash is absent!

The dream is over,

the nightmare of not enough

Awake, now fulfilled

BUSINESS CYCLE

moon-made ebb and flow

leaves jellyfish at our feet.

but look -- sand dollars!

Haiku

Mystery solved

Over spend under work wilt

Work hard spend less thrive

Haiku

Live without cable

be productive learn anew

lead by example

Haiku

Vanity and greed

You and I scoot for the loot

Love is what we need

Old corporation lays off 500,

Young father sobs "Why me?"

Pistol barrel tastes cold in his mouth.

Noah is a wise 12-year-old!

million, billion, trill...

our bread line lengthens daily

pigeons wait for crumbs

education cuts

tuition escalating

ketchup soup again

subprime mortgages

enrons and ponzi schemes

the eye of the storm?

learn to sacrifice

unvarnished nails look pretty

read to your children

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.

on a crooked street

a businessman blows bubbles

the noontime moon

My fledgling savings

turned inside out,

an empty pocket.

my old boss talks

to an empty cubicle

the autumn wind

the crash of wave

half of the castle

flows into the sea

will work for food

an ant carries a moth

along the sidewalk

new paradigm time

do not focus on your wealth

see what matters most

Humpty's Financial Haiku

Another wind blows

Nest egg falls off the Wall

Street shell yolk broken

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.

Haiku Challenge

the paper profits

blown and strewn

dandelion dust

CONVERSION:

Thirteen to seven

Sounding cold and technical

Means they've lost the house.

Market Share

The flea takes little.

No lump sum debt, no tax cut.

Bite! Then skidaddle!

the great depression?

please, let's get some perspective.

that was whale, this fish..

Miss Money's makeover:

hair and nails, trimmed and colored.

"put it on my card."

economy haiku submission:

A family sleeps inside

the foreclosed, half-built house

next door. Don't tell.

economy haiku submission:

Titans of finance

turned into Wall St. wimps when

the clock struck midnight.

clouds smother the sun

spiny eels burrow to hide

faint light to warm drafts

Change, change, change makes cents.

But what will give us dollars?

Hope is essential.

Kurt made us think

If more people did it

Bush would be

Just a passing thought

HaikuFinance

Man turns over a new leaf

Not Realizing

He lives inside a jungle

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...

Barack Obama,

Deliver us from trauma.

Give us stimulus.

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!

-

What goes up must come down

yet the rich get richer

the poor get poorer

counting grains of rice

navigating the darkness

uncomfortable

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

greenbacks asunder

Wall Street Titans Falling Fast

Hit the ground...running

(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'

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

GROUNDHOG SEES SHADOW

Last six weeks of winter

Cherry blossoms bloom

Wall St.

Fortress of stone built

upon a sky-borne boulder

Don't look down, stupid!

careless borrowers

now sad, and many homeless

will O'Bama help

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

greed is the clear cause

unemployment everywhere

hopeful news needed

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

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.

Change is no destination,

Hope, no strategy;

What got us here is no "out"

This season of fear

Worries drift, always shifting

We will wade through them.

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.

Financial Aid Form Haiku

Hate FAFSA form hate

The Profile even more hate

Being told I'm poor.

i am unemployed

okay, now what do i do

well, start a business

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

Thanks for your good work.

You've been a great employee.

Now you must go. Sad.

Highly leveraged

Most flew too near the sun, now

All investments fall

Bubble now busted.

Will the new king save us all?

Nationalize me.

Either to or fro,

without regard for your tears,

equilibrium.

Unregulated-

Bernie made-off with the cash

Ponzi's unclean hand

Three forty for milk

Dairy product of the gods

I'd like to meet this cow

Summa Cum Laude

Ah, higher education!

Now I sell groceries.

excessive capitalism

why does someone have

to make profit in order

for us to live well

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.

My parents told me

Son, save for a rainy day

Is that rain I hear?

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 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

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??

outside looking in (out)

emotion, confusion stirs

stand tall start anew

A Haiku:

Following the thread

To the center of the maze:

What awaits us there?

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

Ballooning payment

Hindenburging while it grows.

Going down in flames.

Once singing jingle

My pocket depth whispers

only of borrowed lint

Oligarchy reigns!

President Obama --

please dethrone them.

My friend is frightened

face taught with anxiety

third shift, IBM

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 economy-inspired haiku:

Fear freezes my heart,

Jobs and money disappear,

At least love is free.