Or maybe I should have said “weak, too” because it really does feel like the week’s worth of ‘ku have been on the sorta lame side. I have reasons, excuses, what-have-you, but the bottom line is, sometimes, life is hard and you can’t always do everything.
April 6
Bunnies, kittens, and balls. What could be sweeter? Maybe in someone else’s poems…chocolate bunnies / their happy faces taunt me / to ruin easter
hey ball-throwing boy! / those balls you lost on the roof? / they stay there by choice
to locate a cat / walk to the nearest kitchen / and open a can
April 7
Only the one today.the optimist sees / half- full ice cream bowls and thinks / “now there’s room for more!”
April 8
Sad day: no ‘ku.April 9
I was actually quite pleased with the Star Wars tongue twister. Too obscure?man thinks he’s so smart / peeling bananas stem-first / monkeys know better
the bullied robot / yanked out his batteries when / the called him human
see the sickly sith / the sixth swift sea-sick sith to / sail sith-thick seas
April 10
Tuesday was a fairly dark day if I recall correctly.gainful employment / letting others put a price / on your existence
still you seduce me / your broken spine, your dog ears / your skin foxed with age
the sun and the moon / my body begging for sleep / my brain waking up
April 11
Cats again! Youth versus old age! Creepy spiders!persistence appears / each morning in the shape of / cats howling for food
springtime renewal / for the young; for us old folks / it’s refurbishment
spiders are watching / from invisible outposts / in darkened corners
April 12
Any day I can combine haiku with a pun is a good day.with the facts of life / people talk of birds and bees / which gender is which?
the fallen squirrel / used the power line highways / death came as a shock
when the rains come down / the dream whisperers appear / like headstone rubbings
All over the place again, right? Looks like I’m down four haiku if I still want to reach my month-end goal of 99, provided I can stay on top of things the rest of the month.
I got a few retweets this week, but I also got my first replyku from Sarah Rettger to my April 10th poem about employment.
gainful employment / totally necessary / for paying my bills
Indeed!
Alright, enough of this kufoolery. It’s Poetry Friday and Anastasia has this week’s roundup over at Booktalking. And if you want to catch the twitku as they fall during the week, or care to engage in a conversation entirely in 5-7-5, the Twitter handle is @delzey.
Hey, I LIKE the kittens. Also, I like them because they remind me of one of Tech Boy’s coworkers, who heads for the coffee machine when he hears the closing gurgles – like a cat hearing a can opener. They’ve taken to calling him Coffee Cat…
I like Tuesdays ‘kus, all of them, especially as post-PhD Tech Boy is job-hunting. That stuff can make you bitter…
The spiders, though? You have GOT to stop writing about how they’re watching me…
regarding the spiders, the poet is only the sad witness to life’s realities, not the controller.
My favorite is the “balls on the roof” ‘ku. A few short lines, yet you capture the dynamic between kid and grumpy neighbor.
for the record, i’m NOT the grumpy neighbor. nope. not me.
That tongue twister is HARD! Whoa. And Tanita is right about the spiders.
Great pun!
generally speaking, coming up with a tongue twister is hard. harder still to make them make sense. but for me just the image of a seas-sick sith was impossible to ignore…
Haiku does tend to expose themes. Go with it! Spiders fight kittens and Sith with can openers!
Or not.
The main thing is to open the spigot.
i think the handle on the spigot’s a little rusty. pardon me while i go fetch the poetry wrench.
My favorites are the Star Wars tongue twister and the ‘ku about ice cream and optimism.
The one about spiders give me the shivers. Brrr. They love to hide in my laundry room to watch me.
and really, why do spiders need so many eyes? they’d be creepy enough with just a single pair. but i guess if you have all those legs you’d need more visual coordination as well.
“Replyku.” Now that’s great. Just another round of the Great Conversation. :-)
the suffix ‘ku’ should have entered my vocabulary long ago; i was adding ‘fu’ to things since back in the day when everybody was kung fu fighting. thanks for dropping by the ku-fest.
Those spiders have outposts in my shower. And I cannot kill them. So I watch them the whole time. These are cool, and that one really got me! a.
once i realized that *most* house spiders were more help than harm i’ve made peace with them. but all this talk of spiders makes me SO want to share the most horrific video i saw this week. believe me, if spider freak you out, you don’t want to ever see this!
I’ve missed seeing your twitkus fresh from the Tweet button this year…haven’t been able to manage Twitter and Life at the same time. Something else gainful employment does to a person. Thanks for rounding them up here. I loved your themes last year, but these random ones are great, too. Maybe you should get the birds and the bees to gang up on the spiders. (do share the video link, although I’m likely to be freaked out)
i will not give people even the temptation to see that video here via a link. i was referred to the spider video by douglas coupland’s twitter feed and did not heed the warning. the curious can look up the phrase “kill it with violence” and “spider” and find the video in dozens of places.
but not here.
as for birds and bees, i’m having my usual springtime hate affair with the local birds who congregate and cheep very ludly at 4 AM. and the bumble bees that live in the back yard are NO help whatsoever.