Tuesday February 5th, 2019

The exercise:

Write two haiku about: the unlucky pirate.

2 comments:

Greg said...

I feel like these prompts are either coming from a children's story book, or that you've started writing one in between editing poems :)
I have no gaps in my teeth anymore. It's a bit odd, my tongue keeps checking to see if these new obstructions are still there :-D

The unlucky pirate
He snitch'd on his mates
Who stole his hot tourtiere.
Unlucky pie-rat.

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He buried his gold
On Vesuvius' slopes
Just before Pompeii....

[Middle line of the second isn't a syllable short, but the apostrophe kind of hides the possessive ess that gets pronounced anyway (at least in British English)]

Marc said...

Greg - this one was just an odd phrase that popped into my head. And yes, I could imagine that'll take some getting used to!

Heh, that would be an unfortunate choice of location for burying one's loot... what temperature does gold melt at anyway?