For TJ’s Household Haiku Challenge – Prompt Word: Footstool. For my haiku, I’m using a synonym…Tuffet. It is a footstool made of cloth.
Was it Miss Muffet
who fancied tufted tuffets?
Or was it Spider!kat ~ 23 May 2016
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Trrremmbllling Tuffets!
In Retrospect
A Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Weekly Challenge. This week the prompt is: “Rest”.
Photo from Wikipedia Commons
A piece of advice
I might give my younger self…
worry less, rest more.kat ~ 23 May 2016
Inspissate – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
Today’s Word of the Day from Dictionary.com is Inspissate. Seems like a fairly cut and dried (pun intended) word. Think making gravy…adding a bit of cornstarch or flour and heat for thickening. At least that was my first take:
Inspissate Haiku
Try adding cornstarch
to inspissate thin gravy
don’t forget to stir!
But then I googled the word and found this it is heavily (pun intended) used in the medical field when referring to bodily secretions and excretions thickened through dehydration or disease. (See the google suggestions below).
Of course I had to share my findings with you! You’re welcome! (…evil grin…) Think of me next time you sit down to a lovely meal with a steaming boat of savory, thick, or rather, inspissated gravy and remember that in some odd linguistic twist…we are what we eat…what goes up must come down…what goes in, generally comes out. EWWWW! I best drop off this spiral before I drown in this inspissating quicksand of ickiness! If there is such a thing as a word earworm…this is it!
Have a great weekend! 🙂
Peahen Impostor
For Jane Dougherty’s weekly poetry challenge prompted by this painting and these words: indigo, cry, night bird, fleeting, forbidden. I decided to tell a story using a Kyrielle Sonnet.
She waits for dusk’s indigo sky
listening for the peafowl’s cry
then to the summit she ascends
Night Bird’s come to woo their hen.
Donning her discreet disguise
Simple brown frock to temp their eyes
Iris plumed, a fair peahen
Night Bird’s come to woo their hen.
So to glimpse their fanning bluster
forbidden glen where peacocks muster,
with long-stemmed flowers she pretends
Night Bird’s come to woo their hen.
She waits for dusk’s indigo sky
Night Bird’s come to woo their hen.
kat ~ 12 May 2016
Pasithea
For Jane Dougherty’s poetry prompts this week, the charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon, entitled “Tears” and by the words: Tears, Horizon, Fly, Hue, Stealing.
I also took a bit of inspiration from Greek mythology and the story of Hypnos, son of Nyx, who won the hand of the youngest of the Graces, as payment for favors rendered to the Goddess Hera…
Charcoal drawing by Odilon Redon, entitled ‘Tears
She was light to his darkness,
most tender of the Graces, stealing
his heart at first
glance, her soft hypnotic
hue, shimmering pearlescent against
the purple-black horizon, a ransom
paid for favors, shifting
the tide of his fly-by-night
existence, giving birth to
dreams, sweet dreams, quenching
his eternal longing for sunrises and
sets, collecting his bitter
tears of regret in
rivers of forgetfulness.
kat ~ 6 May 2016
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