Doghead's Cosmic Bar

There are also 3-5-3 haiku, and a lot of haiku is translated from Japanese without much regard for getting it into the "correct" 5-7-5 format.

But I'm just learning the rules.

Brown wood doors stuck shut
above a cold white counter
I can't reach the sink

http://www.modernhaiku.org/issue36-3/haiku36-3.html

(part of an on-line haiku magazine)

I like a good..er bad limerick myself

a light or humorous verse form of 5 chiefly anapestic verses of which lines 1, 2, and 5 are of 3 feet and lines 3 and 4 are of 2 feet with a rhyme scheme of aabba

Rico Rodriguez All

He may not have hair, but he's still got air

But you think that Mack Daddy's a fool, poly pants and all.

she wrapped it around the back of a chair

That makes sense for a translation of the Japanese, but if you're writing it in English...

A Royal C. Mountie named Morse, eh,
Fell madly in love with his horse, eh.
His wife said, "you rapscallion,
That horse is a stallion.
This constitutes grounds for divorce, eh."

From the depths of the crypt of Saint Giles
Came a yell that resounded for miles.
Said Jerome, 'Goodness Gracious,
has Brother Ignatius
forgotten the Bishop has piles?

*applauds Psimagus and prob123*

and I suppose, since someone mentioned haiku:

how many nuns could
live for a month on an ounce
of friar's balsam?

But I do think they work better in the original unstressed Japanese. The rhythm of English detracts from the form.

That was from a bad poetry generator... And bad it is, lol

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Writes limerick contest entries -- may I?
My program makes a sample,
These five lines, for example.
And here is the result. Not bad, say I.

(from OEDILF, an amazing project)