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September 6, 2016

Bending…The Rules

The aftermath of a derecho. The tree was in my neighbor’s yard; it’s upper branches soon to fill my back yard past the second floor of my house! Fortunately it only took out our fence and two pine trees that we wanted to remove anyway. 🙂

This week’s Haiku Horizon Challenge word prompt is “Bend”. I have seen what damage can be done when trees stand too rigid against the wind. And I have seen what can happen when a friendship is tested requiring one party to bend too far. In this case there is a fine line between helping and enabling. A good friend knows the boundaries. 🙂

Here are my Haiku then…one about bending and one about knowing when to stand firm. 🙂

Bending…The Rules

good friends will often
bend over backwards to help
but not enable

deeply rooted trees
may only survive tempests
by learning to bend

kat ~ 6 September 2016

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September 3, 2016

Gaposis – Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku

By Kat Myrman

Happy Friday! Today’s dictionary.com Word of the Day is Gaposis! I could not find a lot of information about this word. It is a facetious term coined in the 1950’s that describes someone who suffers from clothing so tight that there are bulging gaps between the buttons or snaps.

These days the gaposis afflicted may be seen congregating at Walmart. These late night creepers might imply that gaposis has spread to epidemic proportions! But fortunately they seem to be isolated to the deep dropping sales aisles. I’m not sure why. Just an observation and fortunately, it does not appear to be contagious.

The worst cases of gaposis to be documented in modern literature and film are the Incredible Hulk, Alice of Wonderland after one of her unfortunate growing spurts…and last but not least, poor Violet Beauregard of Willy Wonka fame. You may know of others…

I don’t believe I’ve ever suffered from gaposis. But it might be said that I have the opposite -osis…if there was a word for it…tentosis. The propensity to wear loose fitting clothes. What can I say? I like to be comfortable…and covered!

At any rate, here is my haiku. Have a great weekend!

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Her bulging gut proved
she suffered from gaposis…
She was no size 5!

~kat 2 September 2016

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August 30, 2016

Smourting (Social Media Courting)

By Kat Myrman

So yes! I’ve made up a new word! It is a combination of “Social Media” or SM and “Courting”…Smourting. Doesn’t sound very romantic does it? That’s probably because it isn’t!

At any rate, here is my haiku for Haiku Horizon’s Challenge Prompt “Court”. I supposed I could have gone the “judge Judy” route or the NBA route, but I’m a romantic…what can I say?! Hope you have a chance to have a tête-à-tête with someone special this week. 😉