Thursday, September 30, 2004

Poetic narratives

Maya, at the excellent Postcards from Sacramento, has been trying to express herself only in haiku lately. Fantastic. Being the unoriginal idea-thief I am, I decided to try my hand at it as well.

I present to you a . . .

Haiku, on my current mindset:
No pants shall I wear
until given a job or
a breakfast invite.
Cinquain, on unfinished business:
My car
is full of crap
I have failed to unpack.
To do so seems odd, as it just
goes back.
Limerick, on sizeable breakfast portions:
I ate a scramble today
'twas massive in ev'ry way
I gulped it all down
and said with a frown
"Gaw-damn that cook came to play"
Haiku mk II, on smelly-ass plants
Mother has lilies.
They smell like my feet'd, drank I
naught but vinegar.
I'm here all month folks.

Those vinegar-and-foot smelling plants are real. Avoid orange lilies.

4 Comments:

At 4:49 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

such wordsmithery
haiku cinquain limerick
as well as your prose

-- Don Sheffler

 
At 12:59 AM, Blogger Luke said...

Brilliant Don. I didn't even realize it was a haiku for a while. Seamless.

 
At 4:46 PM, Blogger Don Sheffler said...

i'm funny that way
i don't notice it either
believe it or not

 
At 2:02 PM, Blogger Luke said...

Lies! Nice though, good word choice.

 

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