Tool Haikus

[vankrasn]

This isn't my idea, but I always enjoy reading the results. Credit goes to Gregg Easterbrook of Page 2 on espn.go.com, the Tuesday Morning Quarterback, who always asks for haikus on subjects at the end of his column. Easterbrook is more than a football fan, he's a Brooking's scholar and sometimes writes about his insights on organized religion, which I always find interesting.

Anyway, here is my TMQ inspired Tool haiku, they're fun to write:

Musical crowbar
Prying open my third eye
Experience Tool

[crow011]

oh, my ears have loved
the bless-ed dark sounds of TOOL
enter the beneath . . .

can you tell im a poet? . . . no? . . . look closer . . .

peace and blessed be . . .

crow011 . . .

[HookerWithAPeni]

My awesome haiku....

Maynard James Keenan,
Danny Carey, Adam Jones,
Justin Chancellor

[vankrasn]

Spiraling, crashing
My mind, thoughts turned inside out
I've had a Toolgasm

[crow011]

Originally posted by HookerWithAPeni
My awesome haiku....

Maynard James Keenan,
Danny Carey, Adam Jones,
Justin Chancellor

thats the funniest thing i have ever read . . .

we have a word for you in australia . . . its called "smart arse" . . .

i love it . . .

get it published somewhere . . .

peace and blessed be . . .

crow011 . . .

[josh]

Salival second
Aenema is the best one
Lateralus third
______________________

Tool's coming to town
Hour's waiting for good seats
Ninety bucks a piece
_______________________

Maynard look-a-like
Is my friend with too much hair
Needs some body paint

There I think you've had enough mind blowing poetry for one sitting. You might need to go and have a sleep now?

[soul_excursion]

my homage to the fight club haiku

paul d’amour can leave
even justin plays with peach
adam is the slave

[vankrasn]

Aenima - bathroom
Lateralus in Discman
Salival in car

DVD player
holds Undertow. Opiate
I still need to buy

[josh]

I reckon that enough people post haikus on this thread, then we would have an amazing book of Tool haikus. The ones already here, especially the ones by my good self, are of an excellent quality. Keep posting them.

[the reverend]

What exactly makes a haiku?
Is it just a 3 line poem?
Help me people!!

[Limo]

A Haiku is a japanese poem, usually pertaining to the elements.

A loose definition of haiku is a three line poem made up of 17 syllables:

5
7
5

[the reverend]

Cool, thanks brother.

Ill keep thinking.

[Exodus31125]

Tool to the rescue
Enlightenment has been reached
I have become one again.

They did it all friend,
Took you to the hole and back,
Reached in, saved your soul.

Sucked up, sucked in, flesh.
My rebirth occured in August.
First Tool concert was awesome.

Stereo banging
Third eye singing me to sleep,
Awash in the light.

Life feeds on life, feeds,
Mine feeds on the raw sounds here,
Tool, there is no other.

Thats all I can come up with at the moment.

[mike tyson]

Swing on a spiral
Enjoy the euphoria
Embracing moment

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

You follow like sheep
The sound of your constant "baa's"
I need an amen

_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

Such beautiful sound
Emitting from the speakers
Who else it be? Tool.


these may not be directly " Tool Haikus " but were inspired by Tool.

[damnable]

Undone by a riff,
Bouncing and tripping along -
Forty-six and two.

Orange juice, vodka,
Forged steel, and plastic handle
Just so. Screwdriver.

I dug the darkness
Out of my mind's shadow with
The help of a tool.

That's enough out of
Me. I will go now and try
To let myself see.

[raiSINgirl420]

feed your head, she said
live in imagination
spin the world around

communication
it is the key to all things
connection follows

circles spinning ‘round
it is all connected with
strings and things and you

blasted out above
swinging on spirals combine
float above mundane

sever the ego
let it all flow about you
open your third eye

sink between stillness
dive and drown in thought oceans
soak in the silence

liquid skins body
mind power overthrows the
inner self release

let go of meaning
fuck this opinionated
din, and overcome


ha...that was fun....i love haikus. we should make a book...we need more contributers.

good thread.

[crow011]

TOOL fans are quite bright
limp bizkit fans are stupid
i look arrogant . . .

im not shitting you . . . there is some serious fuckin' talent in this place . . .

we rule . . .

peace and blessed be . . .

crow011 . . .

[Jerk off]

Maynard James Keenan
I think is no god
Danny Carey is.

Punding drum beats echo
Feel the vibrations in me
Feel like this forever.

I suck with forms but i tried tell me what you think.
MW

[nina]

please, take my anger
away with my hate and fear
let my soul be pure



are there any more rules to haikus?
please tell me so that i can improve on my offering for our book :)

[damnable]

There are no rules for haiku, that I know of; even the form can be played with (3/5/3, etc.) I try to feel the essence of whatever it is that I am trying to describe in the haiku, to become it. Doesn't usually work for me, but if you can achieve oneness with it, you are sure to write a bitchin haiku. But then, you already have, nina.

Intent, decimate
My only brain entirely
Too base, too quickly.

I think haikus are cool because, as the example above shows, I can write seemingly random words and make something that sounds meaningful.

Stares, clouds, hazy eyes
Driving toward nothingness
In my BMW.

No, I don't own a BMW. Think about it. Jerk off, you don't suck at form. You have your opinion, I have mine.

[sianspheric]

Disgustipated
Drowning in the Undertow
Danny is so tall

Finger deep with your
Stinkfist up my great rectum
4 Degrees more heat

Maynard is quite short
Danny Devito is worse
That runt needs some stilts

Adam likes to get high
On Dmt-Meo
I wish he would share

If Hicks were alive
Dubya would fuck with his mind
Quayle looks like a prince

[Jerk off]

Tools they are not
Musicians and great ones too
Tool Musicians

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A fight of fancy
Music takes me on often
reality falls

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
See
wonderment
Here

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
y'all bess quit trippin'
Unhh son that jacket is tight
I'll take it from you

That last one is compliments of my little brother Dan.
and he would like me to remind you that yes, he is white.

MW!

[vankrasn]

My first Tool concert
October two thousand one
Washington, D.C.

MCI Center
Located in Chinatown
Home of the Wizards

The house lights go down
I don't know what to expect
Tool begins The Grudge

I am overwhelmed
My senses are bombarded
I feel a new urge

Suddenly I dance
Never liked dancing before
I have two left feet

It doesn't matter
I exist in my own world
Tool amazes me


____________
Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays everyone. I definitely did not expect this many responses.

[crow011]

fuck off, i totally expected this many responses . . .

we are all a bunch of smart arse tools, after all . . .

that one about danny devito on stilts made my freakin' day . . .

peace and blessed be . . .

crow011 . . .

[sianspheric]

they were all pretty lame except for mine.

meh.

[YGOfvn]

Know the peices fit
then, it was morning when you...
awoke in your ditch

[aeternus0]

I laugh and I cry,
I live Life and die; but I,
All the while, am still.

Feeling eternal
All the pain, separation -
I am not alone.

In slumber, in sleep,
The river carries my raft,
Watch the weather change.


That's it for now. btw, the one's I read were absolutely incredible. Very glad I found this corner of cyber space.

[paper_head]

Haukis are so gay
Why do you like haukis man
I hope you die soon

[damnable]

My response to paper head can only be summed up in a haiku.

A head of paper
Doesn't hold much, or does it?
An empty vessel.

To answer your question, because you can say a lot without using a ton of words. Your haiku is yours and I hope you like it.

[Jerk off]

Paper head
Thanks for telling us
how haikus suck
In a haiku. :)

[MahdHatre]

i am an alien
and since i am then so are you
we are inspired by TOOL

numbers do not match
but no rules
that right
right

[wuphat]

I want to believe
Tolerate lies, cheats and thieves
No one's innocent

Do unto others
Find some kind of sanity
You look so precious

I want what I want
Have another drink my friend
Trust me, the liar

Change this way of life
Slip it deeper inside us
Relax. Take my hand.

Would you die for me?
So much of nothing to say
Don't you fucking lie.

You think I've sold out?
I've got some advice for you
Shove it up your ass.

[Dr.Strangelove]

Maynard is the best
Interior designer
He made my curtains

That last haiku was
Barely even about tool
I'll chastise myself

[Dr.Strangelove]

I have to admit
Even haikus about Tool
Bring thoughts of fourth grade

Traumatizing thoughts
That I'd much rather supress
Or I'll start weeping

[crow011]

Originally posted by paper_head
Haukis are so gay
Why do you like haukis man
I hope you die soon

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!

peace and blessed be . . .

crow011 . . .

[Choke]

Swimming in the blue.
Down into the cold darkness
The Apocalypse

Running down the hall
Rooms Spiraling forever
Nice soft padded walls

Tall Elaphants yell
Green eyeballs search in the dark
Why cant we all laugh?

[Forum Whore]

Kiss and transmutate
We are choosing to be here
Too comfortable

[aeternus0]

Drawn now, past escape,
Into the churning waters;
Sink down to the depths.

Sleep to the weary
Comes like rain to the ocean;
Sweet Oblivion.


*tired*


**yawn**

[wuphat]

Haikus and girlfriends
We all seem to have them both
Most of them just suck

[Cracker]

Like an endless lucid dream
reality is what we percieve
it bends and folds like paper

Embrace life and love
Afterall, its all we have
The rest means nothing

Through sound and lyric
You can make a real difference
Create and Inspire

[pacifister]

Will they ever die?
Don't want to think about it.
One more album, please.

To listen to Tool,
To open your mind, you must
Swing on a Spiral

Fuck all you posers.
Why can't you just be yourself.
Don't be such a Tool.