Pesach instructions:
Hide the afikomen well.
Next year, crumbs in couch.
Cooking and baking.
Oy! The matzah balls won’t float.
Our seder is doomed.
Tonight, four questions.
Tomorrow we ask again.
Expect new answers?
Questions and answers.
The story unfolds. Hurry –
Soup is getting cold.
The Hagaddah says
“And you will tell your children.”
No kids? Borrow some.
For more, including a Haiku-gada, check out:
http://blogs.rj.org/reform/2009/04/the-torah-in-haiku-passover.html
P.S. What’s the plural of haiku?
SRQ Jew 
oops!
After the youngest/recites the Four Questions, the/fifth–when do we eat?
Too much Seder wine–/I dream of pyramids built/with cubes of sugar.
Left the door open/for the Prophet Elijah./Now our cat is gone.
Enjoy the rest of Passover! –Randi
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Just came across a small book called Haikus for Jews, by David M. Bader, on my bookshelf!
A few Pesach offerings from it:
After the youngest
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I like the last one best. It’s slightly reminiscent of kidnapping, but also quite sentimental.
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Although I will cop to writing all of them (usually I just poach other people’s stuff) my favorite is the one by Jo Rosen. Love that last line!
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I’m too lazy to dig up the ones from an event a friend of mine held in Miami – but I thought it was cute that they called them “Chai-kus”.
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From my friend Jo Rosen:
Forty days and nights
They wandered in the desert
Freedom or just lost?
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