Marxist

card production line

an alienated

labour of love

 

Hegalian

I am the thesis

to your antithesis

so let’s synthesise

 

Tory

I’d be so grateful

if you would allow me to

privatise your heart

 

Maoist

I’d pick a thousand

blooming flowers if we’d make

a great leap forward

 

Hipster

Valentine? Pfft.

Knew him before he was

beatified.

 

Calvinist

at some point you’ll see you

and me were predestined

to be together

 

Policeman

& if they outlaw

our passion, censure our love

then I’ll arrest you

 

Skeleton

flowers, yes

but my heart is just

not in it

 

When Roddy Shippin isn't writing novelty Valentine-specific haiku, he's mostly writing novelty snooker-specific haiku. He feels that it's best, as you can probably tell, to stick to the universal themes. He has previously had such efforts (and the occasional off-topic poem) published in places
like The Delinquent, the Open Mouse, Push and Bleak Bleak Bleak. He also helps to run Blind Poetics and edit Valve Journal.