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message 1051: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Al, a weekend to remember! Popped ribs, missed opportunities, forgotten luggage, unexpected inner city tour, music confusion, near death near collisions and a crunched bird! All and all, sounds humanly delightful — on hindsight.

Funny you had a bird die that way, because you are the first person I've met who has mentioned this. Within an hour of getting my first driving lesson with 'Young Drivers' a robin killed himself on my windshield at my eye height. The instructor had never experienced that before. Several years later, while driving on the freeway in a 1 ton delivery truck on a hot simmer day, a bird hit my side vent window and bounced off my chest, filling the cab with feathers that floated around. Now that was weird!

Oh! Welcome back. I am sure you were missed! LoL.


message 1052: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Jan wrote: "A man floats dreamily
Upon the ocean
Searching for a cork."


I really enjoyed this one Jan! Excellent.


message 1053: by Guy (last edited Jun 23, 2012 06:11PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Playing from the 'cork' one.


From the man's right hand
Floating in the sea of rye
The cork asked him why.


message 1054: by Jan (new)

Jan (auntyjan) | 199 comments Thanks, Guy, you realised that it referred to one of M's comments previously about trying to remember where he read something?


message 1055: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Yup I did — I caught the reference immediately. And I think I caught the allusions you made with the second one. But I liked your cork poem better as inspiration. Sigh. I slight cheat, but not an unheard of one, in this odd little game called Haiku.


message 1056: by M (last edited Jun 24, 2012 07:27AM) (new)

M | 11617 comments “Maybe I need to
get some new glasses,” said he.
“I can’t tell you why,

blithe or married, all
the lasses smile at me when
comin’ through the rye.”


message 1057: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments It was the wry smile,
wan and sardonic with rye
that attracted girls.

The girls who liked him
liked him before they new him
but not long after.


message 1058: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Guy, what a wit you have! The girls didn’t like him long after they got to know him. I’ve got an early day tomorrow, but I look forward to catching up on this thread tomorrow afternoon.


message 1059: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments Thanks, M. I've got my installment to complete! It's almost done, but the weekend has been seriously interrupted, and I've been easily distracted. Good night!


message 1060: by Guy (last edited Jul 07, 2012 11:59PM) (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments [This one continues from 1760:]


A short time later
Alone and also lonely
His smile went awry.


message 1061: by A_x (new)

A_x I stare at the screen
Thinking--real hard--what to type
My virgin haiku...


message 1062: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Nice, A_x!


message 1063: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments LOL!!!

Words flit out my mouth
And run fast across the screen
Words only I get


message 1064: by Michelle (new)

Michelle | 181 comments Okay, here we go.
I think in silence
The answer to everything
Can't be forty-two.

I kinda got that from A Hitchhiker's Guid to the Galaxy. Oh well.


message 1065: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments LOL, I've been meaning to read that book since forever.

You must be joking
When you say the universe
Is plain and simple.

Blech. Too sentimental for my taste. I'm taking five.


message 1066: by A_x (new)

A_x (...and hangover too!)
An instant poet I am
Beer is such a Muse


message 1067: by A_x (new)

A_x Hookay...so 1769 was actually a follow-up to 1766. And somehow didn't see 1767 & 1768?! Argh...sorry.

By the way nice way to relate with '42', Michelle.
Kyra, you OUGHT to read more of Douglas Adams. ;)


message 1068: by Violent Vi (last edited Jul 14, 2012 01:30PM) (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments I am officially lost. I'm trying to figure out what the heck is going on and I-I just can't! So here's a haiku for my confusion

My eyebrow raises
Why, why this coded language?
I sigh my distress


message 1069: by Michelle (new)

Michelle | 181 comments Violet, distressed?
The language is not coded
Just...um...confusing.


message 1070: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments Kyra laughs out loud
For she understands Violet's
Confusion firsthand


message 1071: by Violent Vi (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments Watching Barter Kings
As I read the responses
I practically die


message 1072: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments Reading the words on
This flashing computer screen
I can't help but laugh

I am tired today. I'll give this another shot later.


message 1073: by A_x (new)

A_x Hur, hur and hur, hur.
Violets: blue--sad or dead?
Alright, take your pick.


message 1074: by Violent Vi (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments I am not the three
For I am neither a smurf
Depressed, or dead A_x


message 1075: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments Why are we writing
All our responses like this?
It hardly makes sense.


message 1076: by Violent Vi (last edited Jul 14, 2012 07:02PM) (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments Yeah Kyra is right
We are total lamos guys
Well, it's sorta fun


message 1077: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments And hilarious
I bet no one else at school
Will talk in haiku

(And therefore, we rock!!!! XD)


message 1078: by Violent Vi (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments (haha, yes! OMG that would be awesome to convince your English teacher to do!)

Obviously Ky
No one is as cool as us
We totally rock


message 1079: by A_x (new)

A_x Sure, we will rock you
So roughly the world shatters
Haiku perverted


message 1080: by Michelle (new)

Michelle | 181 comments The aliens come
Shattering the universe
Into tiny flecks.

BAM! Haiku!


message 1081: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments I think I may be
Extraterrestrial life
Since I'm not normal


message 1082: by M (last edited Jul 15, 2012 09:09AM) (new)

M | 11617 comments Kyra beat me to it! This is a reply to #1783.


Nothing was left but
tiny flecks, a few shreds of
a string bikini,

a few frames of the
old Star Treks, a torn still from
I Dream of Jeannie.


message 1083: by A_x (new)

A_x Empty. Nothingness.
Dream a little dream of me.
...wait, that's a nightmare!


message 1084: by Violent Vi (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments [Reply to Kyra's]

The mother ship calls
I try to communicate
The humans in fright


message 1085: by Michelle (last edited Jul 15, 2012 10:03AM) (new)

Michelle | 181 comments (Reply to 1786)

Do not fall asleep
You'll get hurt-or even killed
Because of Freddy.

Stupidest haiku ever, but who cares.


message 1086: by Violent Vi (new)

Violent Vi (violetk) | 133 comments That is the magic
Magic of haikus Michelle
Because no one cares


message 1087: by A_x (new)

A_x Bloodstained sharp razors
Eternity to clean up
"I do. I do care."


message 1088: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments When one starts droning
On and on tirelessly
It is hard to care


message 1089: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Who likes verbal goop?
I know! Everyone who’s in
the Poetry group.


message 1090: by Kyra (new)

Kyra (Nikara) | 1221 comments I'm actually in
The Poetry group, but I
Don't participate.

And LOL to you, M. XD


message 1091: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments To be a member
of the group of regal verse
you must like goo too.

At least that is true
of me, because I'm in and out
with the verbal Pooh!*

*And of course I am referring to a bear who likes honey.


message 1092: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Pooh went online and
posted a verse extolling
the joys of honey,

in rhyming couplets,
and--what was much worse--it was
urbane and funny.


message 1093: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments LoL! M, again, very funny! Laughter, the best way to start my work day. Thank you. Still laughing.


message 1094: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Thanks, Guy!


message 1095: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Thank you, Alex! I just try to keep up with Guy.


message 1096: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments M, you have that backwards! It is I struggling to keep up with you.


message 1097: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments Guy, your haiku made me think of Hoff’s The Tao of Pooh, which I see I no longer have.


message 1098: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments LoL! I was indeed thinking of The Tao of Pooh when my odd mind created that Haiku-abomination. I still have a copy, if you'd like to borrow it. I think it a rather delightful book, and Hoff I think made his case that Milne's writing was indeed Taoist.


message 1099: by M (new)

M | 11617 comments I had to go get gas for the mowers. Now I’m back for a moment. Have you ever read The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow?


message 1100: by Guy (new)

Guy (egajd) | 11249 comments I have not. [Pause to do a quick look.]

Wow, another book to add to me stack. Thank you for mentioning it. I'll see if I can get this from my local used bookstore or library.


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