Instant Haiku Challenge July 16, 2014July 16, 2014Glass, Peace, Summer30 Comments Salt spray in my face The surf pounding the sand as I comb for sea glass.
Furrows of fashion
Hair resisting the harsh comb
A slave to the scarf
Furrows of fashion
Hair resisting the harsh comb
A slave to the scarf
Challenge: Coulrophobia (fear of clowns)
Coulrophobia:
Yet another reason not
To eat McDonalds
Challenge: Bucolic
Dozing ‘neath an elm
The bucolic countryside
Permeates my dreams
Challenge: Shatner
I… think you might be
Rereading this haiku IN
William Shatner’s voice
Challenge: Hubris
For just one moment
At the height of my hubris
I thought you loved me
Challenge: Plethora
Haikus eschew a
Plethora of syllables
For minimal prose
Challenge: Amplitude
The amplitude of
The human soul – so vast yet
Infinitesimal
Challenge: Soulmate
I was wandering
When I found my soulmate or
perhaps she found me
Challenge: Bowling
Stunned how easily
She is bowling me over
With her wit and charm
Challenge: Lachrymal
Lachrymal runnels
Wend down her dirty cheeks as
Daddy holds her tight
Challenge: Friends
Friends commiserate
Good friends join in your outrage
Best friends bring a spade
Challenge: Indecipherability
In cryptology
Decipher ability
Is all that matters
Challenge: Fall
Auburn canopy
changing to gold as the end
of fall’s light nears
Challenge: Pusillanimous
Murderers in scarves
Pusillanimous fighter
Why not show your face?
Challenge: Summer
Lazy summer nights
Lulled to sleep by the peep frogs
And the cooling breeze
Challenge: Birthday
The day of my birth
The seas boiled and the sky fell
Or so my mom says
Challenge: Bororygmi
My kids giggling
Their heads, my belly, hearing
The borborygmi
Challenge: pop tarts
Pundits often pose
Trivial and redundant
Test scenarios
Challenge: Pteropod
These pteropods
Mercury, Hermes, Nike
All had winged feet
Challenge: Necropolis
I can’t wait to meet
My neighbors as I enter
The necropolis
Challenge: Laundry
There’s nothing quite like
Putting on some warm laundry
Fresh from the dryer
Challenge: Dang
Toes dangling over
The side of the wharf making
ripples in the bay
Challenge: Poop
A fat lady sings
An uptempo opera
But it’s not over
Challenge: Blueberries
There’s no better way
To spend time with my kids than
Picking blueberries
My Lucky Charms don’t
seem as delicious as they
did when I was nine
Challenge: Deoxyribonucleic
Deoxyribo-
Nucleic acid is in
My designer genes
Challenge: Imagination
Locked in the darkness
Of my imagination
Crimson eyes await
Challenge: Shenanigans
Bleating children run
And scream, filling the mall with
Their shenanigans
Challenge: Flinders
Fragments of a dream
Fly into flinders then I
Hit the snooze button