I'm sick of ya'll not writing me poems. So today, there's going to be a quiz. Consider it payment for the HOURS of entertainment I provide. Hours, I'm sure.
Anyway, in yoga today during Savasana, I wrote a couple haikus. (Aside: okay, I realize sometimes things get out of hand. A friend of mine recently suggested that if only I liked white wine, he would feel creeped out by how completely unsubversive my tastes are. I don't really know how that happened, considering my heritage. But yes, I love me some yoga, so sit on it.)
As I was saying, my first haiku went like this:
Yoga is not hard
But actually it is
I like stuff like that
Really good, huh? Well, then I wrote a second haiku because the first one didn't have anything to do with a season, and I seemed to remember that in a haiku, you always have to talk about cherry blossoms, fiery maple leaves and the like. So, the next one went:
In the spring last year
I stood on my head, no prob
Then I got pregnant
You might have realized that these actually aren't very good haikus, but you might also have realized some other stuff about me over the course of these 25 blog posts--like that 8 months after giving birth, I am still complaining about pregnancy, or that I'm bad to go off on a tangent, or that I like to give shout-outs to my friends, Dolly Parton style (holla!).
So friends, here's your job: you gotta write me a haiku in the comments. I am so totally serious. 3 lines, 17 syllables. 5-7-5.
Get to it.
Oregon should win
ReplyDeleteBut Stanford just might surprise
Pray the ducks go quack
Jesslyn is funny.
ReplyDeleteJesslyn has twenty dollars.
I eat bread.
or
Twitter in Iran:
Not as useless and selfish
As we suspected
little kitty paws
ReplyDeleteshe makes forts under the bed
love is in the air.
Sharks can eat you whole
ReplyDeleteThey scare me more than spiders
A toilet is safe
I am a diva
ReplyDeletesubtle sexuality
just need a parrot.
my favorite haiku
ReplyDeleteends with the line I like so
"then I got pregnant."
Zucchini the cat
ReplyDeletehas psychotic disorders:
do not touch her butt.
Large sweet Ruby-dog
Groans when she has to lie down,
And smells like a marsh.
Robin will cuddle
Mysteriously leaves home
Don't flip the switch please
cloud forest is nice
ReplyDeletebut i may have to think twice
missing my jesslyn
oh savasana
ReplyDeletetime to clear the mind and breathe
not write poems, jesslyn!
I love you master
ReplyDeleteNow I'll lick my butt two times
then I'll kiss your face
(by my dog)
and
I am wonderful
center of your universe
feed me feed me feed
(by my cat)
Odessa composed several haikus today, as it happened. Here are 2 she recited to me...
ReplyDeleteOut beneath bare limbs:
"Brown sere leaves approaching mouth;
Why am I choking?"
Threatening Ruby,
From afar I have traveled;
Then I got growled at.