Category Archives: Haiku

October 19, 2015

Unspoken – A Haiku Horizons Prompt #87

By Kat Myrman

In response to Haiku Horizon’s Prompt #87: Silent. If you’d like to learn more or read other Haiku, click HERE.

Unspoken – A Haiku
No words, but our eyes
spoke what needed to be said
in silence we knew.
~kat 19 October 2015

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October 19, 2015

Cheer & Call – Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge

By Kat Myrman

RonovanWrites has given us another Haiku challenge that is challenging! The Prompt words are Cheer and Call. As always I CHEERfully answered the CALL, twittering around with a few scenarios…happily coming up with a trio of possibilities. Happy Monday fellow WordPressers! If you’d like to play along or read a few other takes on this challenge, click HERE!

“Just cheer up,” they say
when misfortune comes to call
it’s okay to grieve.

“Out!” the umpire called
‘midst the din of rousing cheers!
the crowd came to life!

It is not my call
to cheer you when you’re saddened.
but I can listen.

kat ~ 19 October 2015

9 Comments | tags: call, cheer | posted in Challenges and Writing Prompts, Haiku

October 16, 2015

“Shirk” Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku Challenge

By Kat Myrman

Sometimes a word has two very distinct and separate meanings. Take “Shirk” for instance. Most of us are familiar with shirk the verb. The Online Etymology Dictionary provides us the origin of “shirk” the verb:

shirk- 1630s, “to practice fraud or trickery,” also a noun (1630s, now obsolete) “a needy, disreputable parasite” [OED], perhaps from German schurke “scoundrel, rogue, knave, villain” (see shark (n.)). Sense of “evade one’s work or duty” first recorded 1785, originally in slang.

But did you know that Shirk is also a noun with a completely different meaning? Here is Shirk the noun as defined in Wikipedia: