the absurdity
of seven syllables, rum
and fifty degrees

smoke two cigarettes
like smeared-chalk cloud skies trailing
college boy's spent days

Those are some good haiku!

I'm not a haiku specialist, but they follow the 5 / 7 / 5 line rule, and I love the content; they also fit together very nicely. One could have a whole chain of separate but related haiku, but they always stand alone as things in themselves due to the balance of the form somehow.

I think these haiku are right up there with the best on the board. I think Rick will be very impressed, as am I.

I'm going to have to go get under a lot of blankets now, but I wanted to just pop in and compliment you on your haiku.

That's odd. I was just lighting up my second cigarette, following my penguin snack when I read your haiku. I'm still a bit confused on what makes the difference between a good haiku and a poor one. I wrote a few last week, but didn't get much in the way of praise for them. My girlfriend thought they were good though.