Haiku Your Week: October 6-13, 2022
The Mission:
Haiku Your Week:
Hopefully this one will be simple and fun. Write seven haikus - one for each day of your week (Oct. 7-13). Each one should be about something that happened in your life that day. Up to you if you want to make yourself actually write one each day or just sit down on Thursday, remember things that happened during your week, and write them all then. Title each one with the day of the week it’s about.
The Submissions:
by Journal Kurtz
Weekend To-Do List [Friday]
I promise myself
much. Myself & I know
these are merely lies.
Lemon Rosemary Shrub/Shrill/Shaboody [Saturday]
Steeping lemon peels
jacketed in warm sugar
champagne vinegar
Lost at Twin Creek (after David Wagoner) [Sunday]
Wherever you are
“here” is that where. Just stand still.
Trees are never lost.
L is for Lawless [Monday]
I fall sound asleep
your voice slipping red herrings
in mystery dreams
Students Playing Vocab Review Game [Tuesday]
Do the green things hurt?
The FPS on this is trash.
Oh, a banana!
Upon Listening to Eli Saslow in Conversation with Michael Carter at Sinclair [Wednesday]
David Duke’s Godson
can renounce hate. Why
should we stop fighting?
January 6th [Thursday]
subpoena issued:
documents, testimony
under oath, Don Trump
by Heart of Darkness
Friday Haiku
Too cold for outside
Work, go sports! Still I’m so cold
Los Espookys, chill
Saturday Haiku
IKEA shopping
Too many children, wild
Back to work again
Sunday Haiku
I forget Sunday?
Probably not a bad thing
Uneventful day
Monday Haiku
Hurry! Hurry! Wait…
Wait again. Wait more. Wait… wait.
Miss the call. I wait.
Tuesday Haiku
Drama and panic
Teenage angst, development
Just another day
Wednesday Haiku
Northern Ireland
All good things must end for now
So long, Derry Girls
Thursday Haiku
Life happens on walks
Wind and leaves and my own mind
Capacity null
by Anonymous Frau Redux
Friday
Porch activity
Boxes arrived, stick bug found
Organizing knits
Saturday
Crap fair for yarn stash
Visual aura, migraine
Breakfast for dinner
Sunday
Grocery pregame
Soup supper, tarts from neighbor
Frisbee at sundown
Monday
Telemetry patch
Liberated some chest hair
Cardiac nurse shift
Tuesday
Cooler weather day
Reading and coffee outdoors
Autumn is lovely
Wednesday
Lightning north of us
Hail descends on morning drive
Penny size ice balls
Thursday (written Wednesday)
Calendar forecast
Scheduled to show up at work
Haiku due today
by Captain Quillard
Friday
infirmary blues
clarinet and slide trombone
night air thick with gin
Saturday
floating in the pool
playoff baseball on the phone
feel my jaw unclench
Sunday
was not expecting
”free shot with each Saints touchdown”
this day took a turn
Monday
mother of pearl chimes
palm fronds rustle in the breeze
chilly morning dip
trains and trumpets sound
planes and sea birds overhead
distant real world signs
birds in the fountain
sunlight dances off the pool
life in slow motion
Tuesday
enormous oak trees
dressed in spanish moss and beads
point the streetcar home
Wednesday
fly turbulent skies
reunited with the dog
not bad to be home
Thursday
new jan sixth hearing
flames on the side of my face
a day filled with clues
by Espy la Copa
a week of Haikus
easy! I'll start tomorrow
leaves fall on my mind
Next Week’s Assignment:
Make a sculpture out of unexpected materials. Theme, style, size, complexity, etc. are all your choice, as long as the materials you use are not what we would expect to see the sculpture made from. (Yes, that sentence ended with a preposition. Poetic license is a form of art!)