The exercise:
Give me two options, in haiku form, for words that could be engraved on a: tombstone.
Yours, someone famous, someone fictional, whatever. Serious or silly, I leave that up to you.
Brought a wheelbarrow full of wood down to the house today, which was fine. The problem, however, is that I had planned on bringing much more than that. It's just that, apparently, I am not yet sufficiently recovered from my cold to deal with slogging through a snow-covered orchard.
Seriously, weather. We could do with a little less of the white stuff any day now.
Mine:
He loved his dear wife
almost as much as he loved
his six mistresses
* * *
She made music with
each and ev'ry breath she took;
listen, she sings still
3 comments:
Well wood is heavy and snow is hard to even walk through so pushing a wheelbarrow through it must be a pretty good workout! I'd say the one rep was good going after your illness :)
I think I like your first haiku better this week, not least for the sardonic acrostic it creates!
Haiku epitaphs
He exploded twice!
I told him he was gassy,
Now he's just grassy.
Don't use petrol to
Set the barbecue aflame!
I smell'd roasting pork....
Gold won't make you glad;
His dropped from high on his head,
Too bad. Now he'd dead.
[OK, I cheated. With three haiku I can get HINDSIGHT as the acrostic, which seems rather fitting for the subject!]
You are invited!
People are dying to join
My graveyard party
With her Nikes on
She kicked some ass, showed us heart,
Gave us love. God bless.
Greg - oh my goodness, I didn't even notice my acrostic. Hah, that's awesome, thanks for pointing it out :D
I am more than happy with seeing three haiku from you in order to continue your acrostic haiku madness. I think I have to go with your first as my favorite :)
Mo - I like them both, for totally different reasons. The first got a laugh out of me, and the second just has such a wonderful sentiment to it. I think it would make a very fine epitaph :)
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