This haiku is off
Its structure seems somewhat odd
Blame the editors.

I disagree with the choice your editors made to not swap line 3 and 2 so that each line is a concise idea. I understand it doesn’t necessarily need to be that way, but it is how I usually see them.

Point taken in full
Blame the source, not the filter
I am a fool, ma’am.

Admonishment received. Hopefully a colleague will be charitable and write a new one to replace it on the sidebar.

I meant no offense;
My remark was in ref’rence*
to an article

*the way I pronounce it it is only 2 syllables.

A Haiku battle;
Do you agree to the terms?
Engagements are swift.

Such feats are folly;
The sick fires I drop, puissant.
You can’t handle it.

If you pronounce “fire” with two syllables, then replace puissant with “strong”.

Is that a threat, sir?
When talking to a lady
Is that how it’s done?

Well despite your chide
I will not back down at all
No footnotes this time…*

*I’m having fun :)

What is this madness?
You damn kids, get off my lawn!
I bleed haiku. Cock.

I come from a land
down under, where beer does flow
and men chunder… Balls.

What? New challengers?!
Put differences aside,
we must combine strength…

I’ll never join you!
My skillz need no support:
I’m a pro poet

Forgetting me? Hmph.
An alliance cannot be.
Poets must wallow.

And yet… so tempting…
With our forces combined, we
are: Captain… damn it.

Patrick, think on it!
Disparate forces combined;
we can win HARDER.

And to John: beware.
My will is formidable,
as are my Haiku!