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... look like a portrait
Daddy's has nipples
Pen some equally pathethic poetry and play along with the lovely Laura at Catholic Teacher Musings' Bad Haiku Friday.
P.S. - Be sure and enter to win a copy of Abigail Pogrebin's best-seller, One and the Same: My Life as an Identical Twin and What I've Learned about ...
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...
measures snippets of your life
distills your essence
It’s Haiku Friday again. For the past twenty years or so, it has been my practice to ... whatever topic I happen to choose. I invite you to write a haiku on this topic too, and share it with me and the readers of this blog. Just write ... month I’ll gather up the haikus in the “Haiku Comments” that meet the criteria and pick ...
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... here.
2. Sign the Mister Linky below with your name and the link to your haiku post (the specific post URL, not your main blog ... ;ll find you in the future is via your comment.)
4. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by ... the top of this post.
REMEMBER: Do not post your link unless you have a haiku this week! I will carry on the esteemed tradition of deleting any ...
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Beer Haiku Friday exposes the best way to watch the fireworks with a poem called, unsurprisingly, " Fireworks ": at my secret spot with a wagon full of beer watching fireworks The October Backbencher beer tasting had the theme " Best of Brew NZ ": The October Backbencher beer tasting had a a oeBest of Brew NZa theme.
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haiku friday...
 Inspired by some late-night / early-morning parenting. Which brings up the question, at what point does it go from being late-night, to early-morning? They both feel excruciatingly painful to me... Anyway, on with today's haiku...
Her bedroom door creaks.
softly tip-toes down the hall,
cold feet in my bed.
Happy Friday. And may all the feet in your bed be warm :)
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... the bar. It involves such complex and intense sensations-- the sound of chairs on the floor, the smell of freshly-sharpened pencils, the crispness of the test paper. All of which makes it perfect for haiku. Here is mine:
Breathing out... just then
I open up the book, smile
Breathe in, start to write...
Now it is your turn. Just follow the haiku formula of five syllables for the first line, ...
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Looking back at the week, Haiku Harry was concerned that not much was going on in the world. As it turns out, sh*t does in fact happen. Hurricane Ida hit the Gulf Coast and is now ... Obama hits Harry's homeland.
In the event that President Obama decides not to visit the Haiku museum during his Japan junket, he is welcome to partake of the poetical gems that follow:
Health care bill through House ...
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The box elder bugs
warmed by the sun shining bright
come in to visit.
I don’t mind sharing
desk space with the tiny things.
Keyboard mountain climbs.
But the lap bound cat
does not ignore easily
the thought of bug lunch.
—- Like the mighty hunter, she teases it first and then…crunch. —-
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... ." Ansel Adams
"A good snapshot stops a moment from running away." Eudora Welty
Click to embiggen for better viewing ...
and for others participating in Haiku Friday and Sky Watch
More photographs from
my sister in Alaska ...
RV traveling
I don't know how they manage sharing this small space but somehow they do
Thought ...
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Last week's theme word was KEY and those who have entered the Friday Haiku Contest in the past have pretty much learned that the ... writing about gas, Miss Debbie!)
The most recent winning haiku, my favorite using the theme word of KEY (and I admit, written ... the key to winning, you used the word KEY in your heartwarming haiku, and now you are awarded ...
a key!
This old brass skeleton key may ...
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