it can be tricky
pranksters love tomfoolery
but…payback’s a b!tc#! 🙂
kat ~ 31 October 2016
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Change & Mind Haiku
Change in the snackbox
had a mind for something sweet
got salty instead!
🙂 kat ~ 18 August 2016
It’s been a while since I entered a haiku for Ronovan’s Weekly Haiku Challenge – Prompt Words: Change & Mind. Couldn’t resist! I’ve lived this scenario way too many times!
April Poetry Month – A Poem a Day #9
..This is Maxwell’s “Mom…MOM…wake UP MAAAMAAA…I have to go potty!!!” look…at 4 am!!!
It is day nine of National Poetry Month. I have chosen a Tercet Cascade for my poetry form today, prompted by a middle of the night wake up call…that has lapsed into early morning. No rest for my weary monkey brain.
I do love my very big puppy Maxwell…but 4 am Max??? Sheesh! Give your old mom a break! As I type he is blissfully snoring at my side. Yep…gotta love him!
At any rate, this poem won’t win any awards. Haha! A bit of whimsy, a touch of angst perhaps, but importantly, true to the prescribed form…hey, what do you expect at 4 am!
A side note…my router went offline in the middle of this, so most of the time was spent FINDING the documentation in order to reconfigure the blasted thing so I could log online to post today’s little ditty! I mention this in case you were wondering if this Cascade poem took me 3 hours to write! 🙂 I will need to revisit this poetry form one day and give it proper homage …but for now, I need coffee!
Here is a description of a basic Cascade. There are no hard fast rules regarding rhyme or meter. It involves taking a line from the first stanza, sequentially, to repeat as the last line of each additional stanza. The number of stanzas depends on the number of lines you use for the initial one. You can set it up as a three-line stanza (Tercet) or a four-line stanza (quatrain). You might even expand to a 5 line or 6 line..the sequence would be the same, looking something like this: for a Tercet – ABC-abA-cdB-efC / for a Quatrain – ABCD-abcA-defB-ghiC-jklD…you get the idea!
Potty BreakRoused awake at 4 am
for my puppy’s potty break
interrupted REMOff to do our business then
half asleep and fuzzy brained
roused awake at 4 am!How much longer must he take?
I am losing patience fast
for my puppy’s potty breakThose who call dogs “man’s best friend”
likely never lost a wink
Interrupted REM!kat~9 April 2016
First-Foot ~ Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
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! 😊
Friday’s Word of the Day Haiku
As the clock ticked one
First-foot o’er my heart’s threshold
A dear old friend…Hope!kat ~ 1 January 2016
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