TJ’s Household Haiku presented us with the prompt: Keyhole, this week. If you would like to read more Haiku, or enter a Haiku of your own, please click HERE.
Here is my Haiku…
Photo of Keyhole by TJ Paris
Haiku Keyhole
A voyeur leans in
drawn to light, eye to keyhole,
deep darkness to sate.kat ~ 5 December 2015
Happy Friday! I just have to say, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE today’s word of the day from Dictionary.com. For those of us who love words and making up words (I’m guilty) and playing with words, this is the quintessential concept!!! And there is even a WORD for it!
Here are a few examples of Spoonerisms from Fun with Words to help you with its definition:
| fighting a liar | lighting a fire |
| you hissed my mystery lecture | you missed my history lecture |
| cattle ships and bruisers | battle ships and cruisers |
| nosey little cook | cosy little nook |
| a blushing crow | a crushing blow |
| tons of soil | sons of toil |
| our queer old Dean | our dear old Queen |
| we’ll have the hags flung out | we’ll have the flags hung out |
| you’ve tasted two worms | you’ve wasted two terms |
| our shoving leopard | our loving shepherd |
| a half-warmed fish | a half-formed wish |
| is the bean dizzy? | is the Dean busy? |
Aren’t these FABULOUS?!!! I am so enjoying today’s challenge. Here is my Haiku…:)
Haiku Spoonerism
Those who wove lording
are crafty spoonerists
bust a jit crazy!Kat ~ 4 December 2015
This haiku is a weekly challenge to myself based on Dictionary.com’s Friday Word of the Day.
Rashmi from mindandlifematters has presented us this week with a sublime Limerick Challenge. The prompt: Love. And I think, what more could be written that has not already been penned on this topic? My Limerick then, borrows a touch from one of the greats…with a bit of my own words…I hope he doesn’t mind our collaboration! 🙂
Photo by Kat – 2015
In a million small ways, she inhabits his days
Her eyes, how they smile when he catches their gaze
There’s no doubt he was smitten
From the words he has written…
“How I love thee…let me count the ways!”
kat (with a little help from the Master) – 1 December 2015
If you would like to add your own Limerick to this love fest or read other inspiring takes on this subject, please click HERE.
This evening while checking in on my special shape-shifting leaf, i realized it had happened. She spread her wings and let go! I have learned so much from that little leaf, but I think her final lesson may be the greatest one of all…peace and gentle landings to you dear reader.
As rain and chill and darkness fell
She spread her wings to ride the wind!
Attachments shed, in weightless bliss,
She’ll slumber now through frost’s first kiss.
How gracefully she gives herself
Unto her final rest,
Nestled near the heart
of our dear mother’s gentle breast.
Would that I, when that time comes
For me to breathe my last,
Like my gentle friend, the leaf,
embrace my dance with death.
For seasons come and seasons go
Each living thing must die,
But grace abounds to guide us all
into the bye and bye.
Happy Slumber Little Leaf-Bird!
~ kat ~ 30 November 2015
HaikuHorizon’s Prompt this week is “Ground” . If you would like to join the challenge or read other Haiku, click HERE.
Here are my takes on the prompt:
You must stand your ground
to be seen as serious…
it’s wise not to blink.Far from being firm,
when terra firma trembles
she scales richter’s heights.Her grounds for leaving
bordered on insanity…
she hated green paint.Kat ~ 30 November 2015
like mercury colliding... 