[Chester B. Dickens]

She's studying haiku in school. And so she's composing on the fly, counting every syllable.

She laid this one on me during a Wesley-walk on Friday:

The dog's upset. Bark!
Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark! Bark!
Bark! Bark! Shut up, dog!

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[MidwestGirl]

;D

 

[Paddysmom]

Eric (Bearsdad) should post some of his haiku. He's done some dandies! Remember when he got us all going a couple of years ago? It was fun!

 

[Chester B. Dickens]

Nathan's good, too. If I ever get elected JL King again (Pah - fat chance!), my decree is going to be for an all-Haiku day. All postings need to be 5 x 7 x 5 syllables.

Writing a haiku
About haiku, taxes brains
How very meta!

 

[einstein's legacy]

Oh my Dan, I do think she's a prodigy!!

 

[Thunders Mom]

??? Guess I didn't learn that in school? What is haiku?

 

[AbbyandMolly]

Stacey is really bored
She doesn't want to go to work
Please somebody come save her

 

[Chester B. Dickens]

Three lines of free verse, dictated by the # of syllables in each line.

Five
Seven
Five

Good try for Stace, but
Doesn't has two syllables
Line three's over, too!

 

[imported_zoezoe]

I loved haiku ... I still have a book where we wrote some in school. This was my first one:

Slimy little frog
On the lily pad he sits
Then into my shoe.

;D ;D ;D

 

[einstein's legacy]

I loved haiku ... I still have a book where we wrote some in school. This was my first one:

Slimy little frog
On the lily pad he sits
Then into my shoe.

;D ;D ;D

That is cute!!

 

[AbbyandMolly]

gahhh that's what i get for not counting!!!! i just typed random words lol

 

[Pottsie]

G'day,

Dan - Proof that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree mate
And for what its worth, here's a half-arsed attempt from me at 6:34am:

Still awake at Morn,
Project driving me crazy,
**** long day ahead.

Cheers,

Pottsie

 

[JollyMolly]

Disney World awaits,
The Weckerly family.
Hug Mickey for me.

 

[AbbyandMolly]

ok how bout this...and i counted this time

The spring rain dances
Delicate water drops
dreams after the storm

 

[JacobAlthea&Tatum]

This paper is not
Going to write itself so
Alas, I bid ado

 

[theoconbrio]

DW2
Has her dad's gift for haiku
And for the absurd.

 

[AngusFangus]

Well, easy to see where she got that, huh Dan?

I love haiku. I saved some of you all's haikus about Angus' tick on his _ick.

Several years ago I was on a committee to improve company morale. No wonder morale sucks now...I'm no longer on the committee. ANYWAY...one of the things I did was hold a poetry contest for Valentine's day. People sent poems, and every hour I would email one to the staff on V-Day. There were some **** funny submissions, but I saved the best for the last. Here is my firm's winning haiku, from V-Day 2001:

My sweet Valentine,
She loves me, she loves me not;
She's a blow-up doll.

Maybe this is only funny if you know the guy who wrote it...

 

[Chester B. Dickens]

Nathan - Dawwww...

Connie - I Love that kind of corporate fun. When I was a director of corp comm for an insurance company (the best job, bar none, that I ever had -- and it was eliminated), our Veep would let us do fun stuff like that all the time. Photo contest, trivia, all kinds of morale-building activities.

The dungeon I'm presently working couldn't build morale with a hodful of bricks and a blueprint.....

A soul-sucking firm
Treats employees like chattle
I need a new job!