Grumpy Dog is a website for the exposition of
haiku* and mercifully short poetry presented
in the following formats...

The Farting Frogis a collection of haiku and a small group of short poems that have been submitted to the site
or have been ripped-off from other sites and given
proper credit and links to their source. All of these
have been hand-picked by migrant farm workers
who moonlight as our editors for no pay.

Thicket of Thorns is a collection of haiku and short poetry that have been posted directly to the page by you,
the poet, and some are periodically edited or pruned out
depending on the whims of our insensitive editors.
There are some rules about what they will accept.

*ABOUT HAIKU
Let's face it, the stuff called haiku on this site is not
haiku at all. Haiku is a beautiful poetry form that originated
in old Japan and served as a meditative excercise for
Zen Buddhists. It was mastered only by a few and then
only by dedicating a life to its demands. The work posted
here is haiku only insofar as it is concise, usually three
lines, and generally conforms to a seventeen-syllable
discipline. Most other aspects of the haiku essence
have been ignored or are unknown to our poets.

Most true grumpy dogs
floss their teeth with fragments of
federal postal bags.

Submitted by Pat G.

Grumpy Dog