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January 5, 2016

Finding It – Haiku Horizon’s Challenge

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From the Original Addams Family…Lurch looks in on Cousin It.

Just for fun, some online friends and I started a rolling message game of exploring the word IT. You know…someone started IT. Then someone asked, “What is IT?” Another posted, “I don’t get IT.” And another, “You still haven’t given IT a chance.”… “Get with IT”…”IT is not that difficult”…you get IT…IT went on for hours…just when we thought we had put IT to rest, someone would start IT all over again, and IT would have us going. IT was impossible to resist. I can honestly say that IT was great fun, even if IT made us all a little crazy. I would do IT again if I could get someone to play along with IT. Okay…okay…there’s a Haiku somewhere in all of this. I’ll let IT rest and and get on with IT…:) IT just happens to be the inspiration for my Haiku for Haiku Horizon’s prompt FIND.

Finding It

It makes you happy
so go out there and find it
but first…what is “it”?

kat ~ 5 January 2016

If you would like to read other Haiku or participate with your own take on this week’s prompt, click HERE.

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January 4, 2016

Vastly Clear Haiku

By Kat Myrman

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Endless Spiral Staircase in Munich. Photograph by Philipp Klinger. Sculpture design by Olafur Eliasson

True eternity
is not a destination
a continuum?

kat ~ 4 January 2016

I like to double-check my format when doing a RonovanWrites Haiku. Once I figured out the rules, it is hard for me to write a Haiku any other way. At any rate here are the checks…
-3 lines – 5/7/5 (Check)
-Sentence – Lines 1-2: True eternity is not a destination. (Check)
-Sentence – Lines 2-3: Is not a destination a continuum? and (CHECK!)…I really like the way that second sentence flipped into a question! Sometimes I even surprise myself! 🙂

This week’s Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge employs the words “Vast” and “Clear” (or in the case of this offering, thesaurus researched representations of the words in question: Vast – Eternity / Clear – True). If you would like to read other Haiku or enter your own interpretation, click HERE.

27 Comments | tags: Challenge, clear, Haiku, true, vast | posted in Challenges and Writing Prompts, Haiku, Poetry, Random Thoughts and Musings

January 2, 2016

Containers – A Haiku Challenge

By Kat Myrman

Photo Credit: kat 2015

It’s wise not to try
Containing life in a box
Free souls will spill out.

More than eye candy
Jars of savory, sweet spice
Fancy a tongue tryst.

The best containers…
Boxes, jars, pottery, skin
Keep things out…or in?

kat ~ 2 January 2016

A few haiku based on the prompt: container. You can read more or enter your own haiku by clicking HERE.

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January 1, 2016

First-Foot ~ Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

Happy Happy 2016!

Dictionary.com presents a timely theme for today’s Word of the Day, ” First-Foot”.

But I must digress. We have many foot-related words and idioms in the English language. There are things a-foot and putting one’s best foot forward, foot-in-mouth dilemmas and placing one foot in front of the other. There is a right-foot, wrong-foot, front foot, back foot, and that trouble-maker, lead foot.

We can set or not set foot, on foot, find our footing, get our foot in the door, have a foot in both camps, and hopefully not find ourselves with one foot in the grave. Like shooting oneself in the foot, I wouldn’t touch that with a ten-foot pole. And I absolutely put my foot down when it comes to waiting on someone hand and foot, unless of course the shoe is on the other foot and I am the one in waiting! (BTW…I like my veggie foot-long on toasted whole-wheat with a dusting of hot sauce…)

Alas, now I have a new “foot” phrase to add to my vocabulary. It’s a good thing I don’t have podophobia! Did you know that is a thing?! And I do wish to also note, for the record, while we’re on the subject, I am definitely not a podophiliac. In case you were wondering. Just so we’re perfectly clear. Digression ended…on to today’s haiku. I hopes it foots the bill! 😊