I Haiku, Do You?
I found this blog yesterday and it has inspired me to write like nothing in a very long time. I’m talking serious inspiration here. I followed all the rules in How I write this crap. I chose to listen to The National, I set the volume control to ten, stripped down to my underwear, and threw back a few Miller Lites. Here is the fruit of my angst:
Baby Weight Blues
why do I diet
I like me my Miller Lite
God damn belly fat
Calgon Take Me Away
baby poop and dust
hells of housewifery and
the coffee’s broken
Turn Down the Teeth
my reality -
Donny Osmond should be clubbed
make my dream come true
Food for Thought
I cook poetic
fresh cut whole new potatoes
hi-carb haiku side
Were Those Boobs Real?
newsflash to uze guys
she died from an overdose
now we can all sleep
Series p. 1
in a perfect world
we’d have a wide screen t.v.
hope springs infernal
Series p. 2
in a perfect world
my kid would sleep through the night
hope springs maternal
I Do Like Haiku
Night trains rumble while
moon shadows dance on the wall
I nurse Finn and rock
Twenty Weeks
Your roughened hands cup
The swell of my womb heartbeat
fragile potential
I thank Mad Haiku for the inspiration, the poetry lesson, and the belly laughs. Notice this guy went right into my blogroll. I also thank him for altering my brain in such a way that I can’t stop counting syllables (24). I’m making this a meme; if you’re a blogger reading this, consider yourself tagged, especially Leah, Chelle, Stuntmother, and Looky, Daddy. You can cut out the liquor if pregnant or nursing but it won’t be as much fun. Write a few haiku!
I never fully understood Haiku. We had to do it in an English class once in high school. It just never made sense to me. I’m more of the it-must-ryhme person!! But this was funny!!! I’m not sure that Im brave enough to try it, but maybe I’ll read up more on it.
Nutmeg, A while back I ran a haiku contest that I would like to submit for this meme. You can find it here:
Haiku Contest
Cool, my first meme. I keep reading about memes. I thought a meme was when someone gives you a list of questions to which you should craft clever, cheeky responses. Naturally, I get a meme that involves Haiku which requires you to not only be clever, but also count which has never been my strongsuit. Nutmeg - since I can no longer feign blog-telligence about a meme, can you please enlighten me as to what exactly makes a meme a meme?
Oh, it’s so simple. Three lines. Counted syllables. 5 7 5. You don’t have to go overboard like I did. Just write three or four and then tag three or four other bloggers. You both can do it. No grades!
A morning well spent! Or maybe misspent, if you had chores and such to do. I’m so envious of your talents!
BTW, thanks for the shoutout and link. Linking you back.
I’m not as classy–maybe a limerick or two but poetry is so far beyond my abilities. you, however . . .
Those are AWESOME! I am so going to work on a few … when I have some mental energy promise! Thanks for the tag!
Thank you for stopping by my blog and posting a comment!
I don’t get it
I never did.
You show up in comments for only the second time in a year and you trash my art! 5 7 5! What is there to get? You named our dog Tennyson! Okay, maybe I need to write some elegies or odes…
Love your haikus. I have a book called Seasonal Japanese Haikus, but funny thing is there isn’t a single one in there about boobs. I looked.
After my blogging hiatus, I’ll have to write up some haikus. I forgot how fun they are.
I dig the haiku
So I write them on my blog -
Feel free to visit.
[...] A funny lady at simplynutmeg tagged me not with a list of questions but to write Haiku. Just my luck. In case you were out sick that day in grammar school, a haiku consists of three lines with the syllables counted out 5-7-5. (Note to my father -I know. I know. Counting not my strong-suit. I am sure you will double check for me) [...]
I did it! It was really fun and not as hard as I thought. Thanks
Your Haiku were great. The boobs one was too good.