The exercise:
Around these parts this inauspicious day of the week means just one thing: it's time for Two Haiku Tuesday.
Your haiku prompt today: flu shot.
What can I say? I had some things to get off my chest.
NaNo Count: 7,121 (done for the day)
NaNo Target: 5,001
Mine:
Rushed vaccination
Gives me much greater concerns
Than this dreaded flu
* * *
All of this money
To stop a flu? What about...
Ending poverty?
Heh, that made me smile (which is quite impressive at 05:15), that's a great little post today. On the whole I prefer your first haiku, probably because there's a deep, unpleasant truth to the second.
ReplyDeleteReferring back to yesterday's comments, using this as a warm up for the novel writing is a clever trick! And I'm glad you liked yesterday's poem; I think all houses could use a breathing room.
Flu shot
My influenza
Doesn't care that you're immune:
It still tries to kill.
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This disease is back
I wish I'd had a flu shot
I cough mis'rably
And a bonus four-line starter for you that I've had hanging around for years that describes the feeling of generally being ill:
In the room where dark and light
Cannot be distinguished
The softest touch persuades the fevered brow
That heat must be extinguished.
I agree completely - I'll have to make sure our next house comes with a designated breathing room. I think I shall print out your poem and pin it on its wall :)
ReplyDeleteOoh, two haiku and a bonus poem! Wonderful stuff :D
Only managed one haiku.
ReplyDeleteThey say it won't make
You sick -- they were wrong and I
Was sick for a week.
Morganna - well one is certainly better than none!
ReplyDeleteAnd your haiku pretty much sums up how I feel about the flu shot in general. That's why I've never gotten one.