The exercise:
Two haiku about: the mailman.
Our wedding video arrived in the mail today. Kat and I watched it after dinner and... yeah, pretty amazing. We were fortunate to have such a wonderful day with friends and family.
Mine:
It's raining again
and all the dogs are hungry.
Time to earn my pay.
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I read the letters
before I deliver them.
Just call me Blackmail.
The wedding video sounds like the kind of thing that'll brighten a day up :)
ReplyDeleteSecond haiku for the win today, I think!
the Mailman
Our mail carrier
Is politic'ly correct,
She's a femailman.
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Letters and parcels,
Postcards, flyers and mailbombs,
I deliver them.
How lucky to have a wedding video! Ours is a spoof -- we couldn't afford a real one at our (very) small wedding, and my husband's family who couldn't be there (due to distance & illness) made their own spoof of our wedding as a present (with us as bride & groom -- they expanded photos of us & cut out the heads & glued them on styrofoam). It's actually very cool.
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Rain or snow, sleet or
Sun, I deliver: joyful
Cards, bills, catalogs.
Marc - hehe I like your second haiku :)
ReplyDeleteGreg - both gave me a good chuckle! I think I like the femailman one more :)
Morganna - nice flow to your haiku :)
Here's mine:
The Mailman
A knock on the door,
Holding a weighty parcel -
With a beaming smile.
*******
I cycle up hills,
Weather is no bar to me -
I am the mailman.
Greg - yeah, the second is my favorite as well. Though I was disappointed I couldn't simply have 'Call me Blackmail' as the final line. Stupid syllable count.
ReplyDeleteI think 'femailman' wins the day for your first haiku :)
Morganna - That. Is. Awesome. What an awesome present!
We actually got one of Kat's cousins to do the video and he did an amazing job - apparently he'd done a couple of weddings before ours, so he definitely knew what he was doing.
It seems to me our mailman delivers more bills and flyers than joyful cards. I think we should get a new one :P
Watermark - thanks! I love the determination conveyed by your second one.