For TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Prompt Word: Footstool. For my haiku, I’m using a synonym…Tuffet. It is a footstool made of cloth.
Was it Miss Muffet
who fancied tufted tuffets?
Or was it Spider!kat ~ 23 May 2016
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Trrremmbllling Tuffets!
In Retrospect
A Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Weekly Challenge. This week the prompt is: “Rest”.
Photo from Wikipedia Commons
A piece of advice
I might give my younger self…
worry less, rest more.kat ~ 23 May 2016
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 22 May 2016
Another week, another shi sai…ReVerse…looking back in snippets so I can settle in for another week with a clean slate
But..
the slate, is never actually clean or completely clear, is it? Our lives are the sum of a multitude of experiences…flash points that leave indelible imprints in our memory.
The sun took a siesta this week, allowing hoards of gray, bloated, sweaty clouds to take up residence in its place. Endless gloomy weather does a number on my serotonin deficient brain. Even medicated, I find myself clamoring for bits of bright.
This is where mindfulness becomes my savior, especially if I surrender to each moment. Moments shift the spiral ever so slightly. It is there in the midst of beautiful chaos. It. Is. Here.
Have a great week, but first…take a moment…take two. 😊
Shi Sai Sunday’s Week in ReVerse – 22 May 2016“Maybe” is too tenebrous.
Bolt, skedaddle, flit
Nope! I told you, I’m good…
visiting my dreams,
azure strokes of ink on parchment,
Blue
don’t forget to stir
darkening blots on gray matter.~kat
Spiral
May is National Mental Health Month. Take care of you and yours…don’t suffer in silence. You are not alone. Peace and Healing ~ kat
back
forth and
rutted deep
sick spiraling
gloom’s unrelenting
misfired synapses
serotonin deficient
darkening blots on gray matter
…depression…
darkening blots on gray matter
serotonin deficient
misfired synapses
gloom’s unrelenting
sick spiraling
rutted deep
forth and
back.
kat ~ 21 May 2016
(An Octet/Palindrome)
Inspissate – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Today’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com is Inspissate. Seems like a fairly cut and dried (pun intended) word. Think making gravy…adding a bit of cornstarch or flour and heat for thickening. At least that was my first take:
Inspissate Haiku
Try adding cornstarch
to inspissate thin gravy
don’t forget to stir!
But then I googled the word and found this it is heavily (pun intended) used in the medical field when referring to bodily secretions and excretions thickened through dehydration or disease. (See the google suggestions below).
Of course I had to share my findings with you! You’re welcome! (…evil grin…) Think of me next time you sit down to a lovely meal with a steaming boat of savory, thick, or rather, inspissated gravy and remember that in some odd linguistic twist…we are what we eat…what goes up must come down…what goes in, generally comes out. EWWWW! I best drop off this spiral before I drown in this inspissating quicksand of ickiness! If there is such a thing as a word earworm…this is it!
Have a great weekend! 🙂
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