We like a little night-time fun
though we be many years wed.
Then one evening, disaster!
We lay swathed in a collapsed bed.
How could a loving wife resist?
Did the earth move for you, too? I said.
Pillow Talk
Limerick: A Fellow Who Always Felt Free
A fellow who always felt free
Didn’t care who-all could see
It’s as broad as it’s long
Was his favourite song
In his shorts it was really quite wee
***
Apologies if you’ve received this twice via email. I prepared it yesterday for today, but hit publish before scheduling the date. I really am a technept.
Haiku
You need perfect length
and not many words: why do
I try to write you?
***
And finally…
I hope you’ve enjoyed this foray into the big, wonderful world of haiku-senryu-haku. They’ll be back later in the year if you have. And even if you haven’t, because I love writing them so much.
Or, to put it another way:
And finally…
I hope you’ve enjoyed
this foray into the big,
wonderful world of
haiku-senryu-
haku. They’ll be back later
in the year if you
have. And even if
you haven’t, because I love
writing them so much.
On the Bus
Window reflecting
me watching them watching me…
uh-oh: detected.
A PMS Mess
A café: old lady bumps
me. She’s the victim
of a salt pot battery.
***
This is a reverse senryu. Instead of the syllable count 5-7-5, there’s a count of 7-5-7. The wonderful thing about haiku is that there are so many versions of the form; it’s tiny but versatile…including the use of fiction, which I hasten to assure you this is!
This is one of the poems I chose not to include in my menopause collection, Hormoanal; but you can find plenty like it. Go here for two more examples.
Take Your Medipun
My former doctor
is abrupt with everyone.
He has no patients.
***
It’s an old ‘un but a good ‘un 🙂 (or an old pun but a good pun...)*
*Milking it for all it’s worth.
Eye Abrasion
Doc prescribed steroid drops.
I asked him, Will my eyeball get fat?
No, he replied, but it will gain muscle.
You could win the Winter Olympwinks.
22/2/22
(Arguing the other side)
Five little ducks came out to play
On the western world’s new palindrome date
One little duck said, Hey, UK!
Thought you drew a line for the USA?
22/2 is what you say
2/22 is the co-rrect way
The line ‘twixt each is carefully placed
Thus, that’s not a palindrome date
You’ve got duck egg all over your face
***
If you’re fairly new to this blog, you’ll have missed the previous similar but not the same post, 2/2/22.
I suggest you check it out for context.
NOTE
I might have argued your case, America, but I couldn’t bring myself to use the incorrect format in the title. Some traditions live to two too deep.
In The Street
I met a white cat.
That cat was fat. A car drove
past…splat! Flat fat cat.
A Spider Speaks
It’s not my fault: no-
one told me Miss Muffett is
arachnophobic.
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