Haiku Horizons presents us this week with the prompt: Sleep. Here are a few thoughts. Read other haiku or add your own HERE.
We say, “I’ve Lost Sleep.”
as if it’s a thing one finds
misplaced like car keys.
Sleepers do not dream.
They wait in obscurity
some dreamers to find.
To sleep anywhere…
Some find it to be a gift
Narcoleptics curse.
~kat – 25 January 2016
Chipping Sparrow. original gouache painting copyright David Sibley.
kat ~ 24 January 2016
Did you know…
The trill of Chipping Sparrow is nearly twice as long as that of any other species, and this is a consistent and very useful clue. In addition, the overall quality of the sound is usually mechanical and rattling, due to the complexity of each individual phrase. – Source: Sibley Guides
This Haiku is in response to Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Challenge. This week’s prompt words are: Trill & Final. Read other haiku or enter your own HERE.
A couple of Haiku in response to TJs Household Haiku Challenge…to write about Wood as it inhabits our homes and daily lives.
The first features the newspaper that graces my front porch informing my day with the world’s events. I forget sometimes that these inky sheets of pulp were once trees.
My second Haiku reminds me how far we have come with technology and everyday innovations that enrich and enhance how we live our lives. Once upon a time, dentures were made of wood! Today we have beautiful enamels and veneers, but our first president never had the pleasure or, I’m guessing, the comfort of well-fitted teeth. We have certainly come a long way!
If you would like to read other Haiku on this topic…or add your own, click HERE.
Business people reading paper CREDIT © Image Source RF / Ben Kepler
The Daily Beat
Pulpy sheets of wood
Fuel water cooler powwows
With the daily beat.
Painting by Gilbert Stuart
Shuttered Smile
With teeth made of wood
He never smiled in portraiture
George Washington on ice.
~kat / 23 January 2016
Happy Friday to you! I love the German language! So many German words are colorfully descriptive when used in English context. Today’s word of the day fits that bill. According to Dictionary.com, Sitzmark derives from the German sitzen meaning “to sit.” Merriam-Webster adds the English “mark” (as in to leave a mark) to round out the original meaning of the word. It entered English lanquage in the 1930s.
I am not a skier, so this word is new to me. I skied when I was much younger. These days the idea of speeding down a mountain gives me pause. I am sure I would struggle to remain upright. Were I to take a fahrt (Trip) down a mountain I doubt I would simply make a sitzmark upon tumbling, but rather a quite lengthy skid mark! I’ll leave you to your own imagination on this English word picture…keep your schadenfreude (pleasure at someone else’s misfortune) to yourself, thank you!
An exploration of the word “skid mark” in Wikipedia reveals that it is an important forensic tool providing evidence that helps investigators with accident re-creation…(once again, consult your own imagination!)
Okay…I’ve completely lost it at this point, as I sit here grinste wie ein Honigkuchenpferd (Iiterally translated: “grinning like a “honey-caked horse”!) Or if that doesn’t make sense to you…honigkuchenpferd can also mean “Cheshire Cat”. I’m not exactly sure how one makes a connection between a horse-shaped cookie and a maniacal cat…but that’s German for you…how I love German words! 🙂
So without further ado, kugelschreiber (literally, ball scriber, or in English, pen) to the paper, (or if you insist, fingers to the keyboard…I just liked the word kugelschreiber that literally means “ball scriber”…BALL scriber! … I am grinste wie ein Honigkuchenpferd at this very moment!) here is this week’s Haiku!
Sitzmarks – The Haiku
Skiers make sitzmarks
When tumbling on the slopes
Me? I’d make skid marks!kat ~ 22 January 2016
(Or a snow angel, in my attempt to convince you that I planned to stop, drop and roll, arms and legs flapping just so. Let’s get real. You will most likely find me on the ski slopes safely tucked inside the lodge experiencing blissful Gemütlichkeit (the feeling of comfortable/cozy)!
Our days are numbered
blissful routine midst chaos
beware the leaper!
kat ~ 19 January 2016
This Haiku is in response to TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge, prompted by the word, “Calendar”. If you would like to read others or enter your own Haiku, click HERE.
