Category Archives: Haiku

April 22, 2016

Biota – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

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Happy Friday and welcome to another exciting installment of Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku! Haha! Today’s word from Dictionary.com is Biota. Originating in the early 1900’s it is based on the Greek word biotē, meaning “life”. Biota is a term used in the field of ecology. Wikipedia defines it as such:

A biota is the total collection of organisms of a geographic region or a time period, from local geographic scales and instantaneous temporal scales all the way up to whole-planet and whole-timescale spatiotemporal scales. The biotas of the Earth make up the biosphere.

Here’s my haiku! Have a great weekend!

It is sad but true
some don’t give one iota
for earth’s biota.

kat ~ 22 April 2016

and a P.S. as I was just reminded…Happy Earth Day! 🙂

 

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April 18, 2016

Orbs

By Kat Myrman

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Photo Credit: Kat Myrman


Waterbending orbs…
Sun, vaporizing the dew
and Moon, shifting tides.

~kat – 18 April 2016

A Haiku for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Powtry Challenge. Prompt words this week are Sun & Moon. See other haiku HERE. 

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April 18, 2016

What’s Your Pin?

By Kat Myrman

  

Sewing Pins, ID PINs…
What do they have in common?
I don’t know…I’m stuck!

I use the same PIN
Then it’s only one number
For me to forget!

~kat – 18 April 2016

A few Haiku for TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge. The prompt is Pin. Read other Haiku HERE. 

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April 16, 2016

Fear – A Few Haiku

By Kat Myrman

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It’s a wise person
Who trusts their intuition
Sometimes fear is good.

Using fear tactics,
Politicians count on this
To win elections.

kat ~ 16 April 2016

For Haiku Horizon’s Challenge, prompt word, “Fear”.

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April 15, 2016

Wafflestompers – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

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Happy Friday!

Well…here’s a word for you…WAFFLESTOMPERS! Today’s dictionary.com word of the day hails to us from 1970’s Americana.

This late middle-aging flower child of the 70’s must admit, I have never heard this word before. It could be that I spent most of the 70’s barefooted; tripping through fields of daisy’s chasing butterflies…or it may be my insane fear of heights! Either way, it is no wonder I never had a need for a pair of wafflestompers!

But given that it is today’s word of the day…and a very high-in-syllable word at that…I shall do my best, despite my obvious inexperience, to render the wafflestomper its proper homage in a contrived haiku. Three lines, syllables 5-7-5…anything but profound with a touch of thesaurus mischief!  Have a great weekend folks!

Wafflestomping

Intrepid trekkers
don high-top wafflestompers
To reach a climax.

kat ~ 15 April 2016

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