Another week in National Poetry Month, another collection of my daily Twitter haiku quasi-blues and bummers. Toward the end of last week I found myself centering on a theme for the day’s ‘kus and that was actually a pretty good way to get me to focus. I even actually managed to get some real traditional blues imagery in there! You can read through and pretty much guess the subject or theme of any group of twitku.
15 April 2011
living entropy
an accumulation of
disintegrationthose who know don’t tell
and those who tell don’t know, but
those who laugh don’t carethe cosmic classroom
life dictates its lesson plans
and grades on a curve16 april 2011
ol’ john barleycorn
takes everything you have, leaves
nothin’ but the proofone night on the town
to celebrate the good things;
daily numbs the paina toast to the wind
cold, sobering companion
who brakes the earth’s spin17 april 2011
avoiding potholes
while riding a bicycle
guarantees a flatthe deadliest place
for bicyclists to ride:
dedicated lanescoasting downhill fast
is not the time to wonder
if you fixed the breaks18 april 2011
boll weevil callin’
or that gal from Stingaree?
two roads to ruinlover caught cheating
with another down the road
he can drink her rentbeen down for so long
when I get a taste of up
it don’t feel right19 april 2011
allergy season
wedged between humidity
and diet seasonwith pollenation
see the flowering of spring
through watery eyesshowers in springtime
nature shows us the fall
in backward slo-mo20 april 2011
cherry blossom bursts
papery pink popcorn puffs
drop fade-to-black shroudsdaffodil trumpets
drown out birds, both believe
that they’re immortalpale yellow lawn
greens flank winter’s salt-bleached streaks
only grass mourns grass21 april 2011
hypothesis: check
experimentation: check
results: epic failscale replica
of a space-bound orbiter
barely clears our headsunusual smell
jars with bread stashed in cupboards
science foul project
The last set of twitku may or may not have posted yesterday; I use Hootsuite as my Twitter client and it (along with foursquare, and my personal web page host, among others) went down yesterday as a result of a cloud failure. Amazon. Hated them from the start, and now another reason to hate them.
But you know what? It’s Poetry Friday out there, and you can get your fill by checking the roundup over at Book Aunt.
So. Much. Fun!!
They keep getting better and better — sharp of wit and observation, clever and true, smirky and snarky, and even a wink here and there!!
I can’t even pick a favorite this week…but I keep going back to the cosmic classroom. Does the cosmic classroom toss all the papers to be graded out the window? (because that’s what I’d like to do this weekend!!!)
thank you for the kind words.
as for the cosmic classroom… sometimes i think the classroom “loses” certain assignments.
There’s a song here for sure:
been down for so long
when I get a taste of up
it don’t feel right
I also checked out yesterday’s poem — I don’t know the seven ladies in a bathroom song, but I love your seven small people version! You’ve got some great, fresh rhymes.
there is a song in there, or rather three. that trio is based on classic blues themes.
fresh rhymes… always better than the ones in the mark-down bins (though there could be some blues lurking among them. hmm…)
Love this idea, and I agree with Tabatha — a song (or 2) are in there for sure.
P.S. Just read your tweet about sending a query. Best of luck, and good wishes during the waiting game.
yeah, that query is a shot in the dark. i’ll just get busy with something else and ignore that it’s out there… la-la-la.
*obsessively checks email inbox*
Loved, loved, loved April 20th. This is all around us now, and we glory in Spring at last!
yeah, spring is here. sort of. we’re still having daily windchill that brings thing to the mid-30s. i’m afraid one day we’re going to wake up and it’ll be 78 and humid, nothing in between.
These are great. I have done twiiter haiku in the past and you remind me to try again.