Tuesday October 10th, 2017

The exercise:

Write two haiku about: the beginning of the end.

Parents managed to leave this morning without too many tears being shed. Took the boys to StrongStart shortly afterward to keep them distracted. Seemed to work out okay.

Beginning my final four day stretch with Public Works tomorrow. It's going to be a chilly week, but at least the end is very much in sight.

Mine:

This may not be the
end, but I can certainly
see it from here... *yay*

*     *     *

I said I love you
and you just sort of smiled and
didn't say it back

3 comments:

Greg said...

Let me guess... you and Kat were the ones crying, because there's less babysitting help now available? :) It sounds like everyone really enjoyed the visit -- that's great!
So Saturday will be your last day? That seems like a good way to end a week, by ending the job as well. I hope the week is straight-forward for you, with no surprise fish, lobster, or sea-monster.
I (obviously) like your second haiku better this week. It's poignant and touching and the kind of thing you see in films to establish that the main character is a loser who's going to be redeemed at the end.

The beginning of the end
Carefree and endless
Afternoons are in the past
Now we know the truth.

Cheerful faces are
Eerily pale. We wait for
Radiation's light.

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Bonus haiku with the obvious joke:

The end of this place,
The beginning of the end,
It's the letter 'E'.

Kyle said...

Marc: That second haiku, freaking wow, man. So much said with so little. I loved this.
Greg: I love the many ways you could connect both of yours together. Bleak and deep and intriguing. And the third one was wonderful :D

I hadn't meant to go thematic with these, but I won't argue with what I came up with. My favorite books are the Dark Tower series by Stephen King, and the first haiku fell right out onto the page as it appears. So I decided to build the second one on the first, with a different take on the prompt.

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Entropy is all
When the Tower starts to fall
Hail the Crimson King

Amid the roses,
The Gunslinger claims his place
The White has returned

Marc said...

Greg - shh, don't tell the boys that's why we were crying :P

I'm glad I managed to avoid uncovering any sea monsters this week.

Oh man, that acrostic packs a punch. Or two. Very nicely done.

And thank you for the bonus haiku to help lighten things a little :)

Kyle - thank you!

I shall have to get around to reading that series at some point. Your haiku have only increased my desire to do so, so well done :D