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.
So, Sometime Stellar Storyteller’s challenge this week was to write a six word story based on the prompt word “Amusement”. I came up with a few. You can read the proper Six Word Stories HERE.
But there was one idea that I could just not hone down to six words. It features my dog and his dizzying happy practice of chasing his tail. He is so amused with himself and so proud when at long last he catches said tail.
I shake my head thinking, “It doesn’t take much to make a dog happy!”…and then I realize I’ve just sat their watching him spin over and over. Apparently, it doesn’t take much to make me happy either! 🙂
This is Maxwell’s happy face. You can stop laughing now…I’m not amused! 😉
A Failed Six Word Story Turned Haiku
Happy DogChasing tail, spinning,
My dog amuses himself
Silly me…I watch!kat – 18 January 2016
Best place to be in sub-zero weather…bundled in fur! 🙂
Forget about style
when winter’s crisp nip blusters
mukluks and parkas.
The girl had spirit
sashaying about en vogue
second-hand vintage.
The latest gadgets
are all the rage on store shelves
obsolete once home!
kat ~ 18 January 2016
This week’s RonovanWrites Haiku Poetry Challenge is prompted by the words Style and Fresh. If you would like to participate in this challenge or read the other entries, click HERE.
Photo taken with iPhone enhanced with a shooting star scene overlay. ~ kat
kat ~ 18 January 2016
like mercury colliding... 