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Ronovan’s prompt words this week, LOOK and CHARM, when applied to the added challenge of making the formed sentences opposites sent my mind into a swirl of deception! How else to explain the look of something charming or the like? At least for me, I came up with several scenarios on the theme. Good one Ronovan. A worthy challenge as always! If you’d like to enter the challenge or read more click HERE.

He was charmed
By her demure smile
Looks deceive.

A blooming beauty,
the Flytrap woos her suitor
With a look that kills!

“Charmed, I’m sure.”
Said she, as she glanced his way,
“What a pompous pig!”

Silky threads of lace
Enchanting view from afar
Up close…sticky death.

kat ~ 15 December 2015

Word of the Day from Dictionary.com

Happy Friday to you! Today’s Dictionary.com Word of the Day is “Fortnight”. Though not a word commonly used here in the U.S. it is one of those lovely old English words that is good to keep in one’s poetry vocabulary data bank. How much more fluid it is to say a fortnight rather than fourteen days, two weeks or bi-weekly. A bit of history below and then a few haiku for you. Have a great weekend!

Origin of Fortnight:

From Wikipedia: A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (2 weeks). The word derives from the Old English: fēowertyne niht, meaning “fourteen nights”.

From the Oxford Dictionary:  Although an Old English word, night comes ultimately from the same root as Latin nox, the source of equinox (Late Middle English) and nocturnal (Late Middle English). Fortnight (Old English) is an Old English contraction of ‘fourteen nights’, and reflects an ancient Germanic custom of reckoning time by nights rather than days.

Fortnight – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

1-
Fourteen days and nights
‘Tis a fortnight I am told…
I call it two weeks.

2-
Radiant Luna wanes
a full fortnight, fair to gloom
from madness to muse.

kat ~ 11 December 2015

Haiku – Finding Balance

Most health plans include
Eating a balanced diet…
chocolate optional.

To achieve balance
One must always choose between
The wants and the needs.

A powerful word,
If it is balance you seek,
Practice saying, “No.”

kat ~ 8 November 2015

This Haiku trio is in response to HaikuHorizon’s Weekly Challenge. The prompt is “Balance”. If you’d like to see more Haiku or enter your own, click HERE.