Yesterday’s challenge was tough. Today’s is an easy stroll. I found an index card that took the words “embedded weasel” and bracketed them to reveal important subwords. All I needed was to add weasels and embellish the pseudo-haiku.
the embedded weasel
weaselily eases
in bedfellows’ beds
wolfman or not haiku
if you become dog
and not wolf by the full moon
you are a werewoof
sex vampire haiku
virgins need not fret
sex vampires cannot enter
till invited in
Here’s a four-liner in response to my friend Bob Kabchef’s challenge in his “Tidal Thursday” post. We were to use at least three of the words Torpedo, Mine, Buoy, Moor, Shoal. I bent the rules a little to spice it up…
Unindifferentiallizing the Tides with the Power of Asian Verse
Walking up the local TOR PEDOmeter on hip
Thinking of some MINEstroned LifeBUOY soap aflip
Slo-MO OR a replay places Haiku on my mind
BasSHO ALgorithmically might render Tides unblind
The words will come first for this one, the image last. The image won’t last but some of the words might.
NOTE: Like American Raku, American Haiku does not adhere to the rules of its Japanese namesake. I am a native-born citizen of the United States of America. The only rule I adhere to for my own “Haiku” is that it have a five-syllable line followed by a seven-syllable line followed by a concluding five-syllable line. They’re succinct!
the baggage unclaim’d
by conscientious thinkers
need not be opened
blink outside the box
sink rapidly to moisten
think or swim; you’re Choice
the fog is meringue
in the middle distance, a
surrounding scrim close
if life’s but a dream
then dreams are life subroutines
else life’s but a glitch
insomniac x:
why zee? DOUBLE you be, see?
just no-bud D saw.
the Road Less Traveled
may be dangerous or dull
better ask around
PAIN is not a gift
TORTURE is not an art form
Respect must be paid
unstressed syllables
are the sorbets of verses
they cleanse the pallette
friendly host zombie
chowing down on Ringo Starr:
who wants a d r u m s t i c k?
exclusivity
and loneliness may well go
hand in empty hand
5-7-5 is
an aggregate 17
–so QUICK: SAY something
Twin edifices
Tumbled down twelve years ago.
The Republic STANDS.
One with Clay, Image and Text 