Illuminati-R-Us

memorial day
oh to hang out drinking beer
the lawn awaits me

bittered ear of corn
on the cob - nature's handle
greasy moustache smile

baseball, nine innings
mom makes her warm apple pie
hot dog on a bun

hot dog with mustard
all is well in the world now
never with ketchup

do not yell at me
I will mow the lawn later
put a sock in it

oh, a haiku thread
please tell us your little poems
the llama loves them

We are writing these
Maybe this thread belongs in
Illiterati

I love the haiku
We do not have to rhyme it
And "orange" is OK.

pardon me, but isn't OK two syllables.? i admire your ability, i can't write poetry for nothin'.

Yep, and "orange" is one. Five in the line.

I say Ornj, not or-anj

If you really like haiku, I have a lovely book of haiku about Spam - the meat-like substance, not the email - called Spamku. Very good work. But it is just a sample of this fine art. Google up Spamku and start from there. Thousands and thousands of Spamku have been written.


glistening meat cube
gelatinous mystery
stains my paper plate

most of us mortals
despite our many talents
cannot write poetry

The spawn of Satan
Darkening the skies above
United Airlines

Enzo wrote:Yep, and "orange" is one. Five in the line.

I say Ornj, not or-anj

oic

Lance wrote:oh, a haiku thread
please tell us your little poems
the llama loves them

We are writing these
Maybe this thread belongs in
Illiterati

In this misplaced thread,
The illuma-llama spoke.
I have made it so.

furry camel kin
oh how can they be online?
too much to ponder

bears shooting arrows
and writing japanese poems
this world is unreal

Must not be easy
Typing with hooves or big paws
Guess we are a zoo

claws and paws to type
counting all my blessings that
I am not a snake

As Arneb, the hare
I would at least have small paws
To stroke the keyboard.

As the seasons change
And it gets dark earlier
Summer has gone by

So you are a hare
That's neat, I just learned something
Beware of my cat

umop ap!sdn wrote:So you are a hare

Well yes. Arneb, or al-Arnab in the original Arabic, means hare. Arneb is the star alpha leporis, the brightest (ha!) in the constellation Lepus, the hare . You find the constellation, a suitably dim one (ha!), due South of Orion. Sweet reference to the niockname my parents gave me. Anyway:

Cat? That little lap
Tiger of yours? Let her feel
The fearful hare's teeth!

Coooooool. 8)



And all this time I'd seen your screenname on both BAUT and sky charts and never made the connection. (Not that I'd be inclined to call a constellation having a magnitude 2.55 star "dim", although the vicinity of Orion and Sirius is a good place for a constellation to hide.) OK back to my cat...

Gray and long of fur
He doesn't chase laser beams
The other two do

Funny you say that about Arneb's relative brightness. I would have guessed it is far less than 2.5 It must be because I am in Germany and observing from 49° N, where anything at delta -20 ° is bound to look dim because of the proximity of the horizon.

Now that you mention it, the constellation was an easy one to make out from California and Hawai'i when I visited there in February. Brings to mind

Ah! Mauna Kea!
Holy place of old, and now
Astronomy's shrine.

aurora in sky
tummy too full of turkey
I'll go inside now


(refers to another thread around here somewhere.)

Clock's ticking away
The long-feared pneumology
Exam looming large

(At 10:15 GMT tomorrow, to be precise)

Over 50 now?
Prostate exam soon to come
Big pain in the ass.

Had mine already
Used another finger then
"Second opinion"



Hope your pneumo is magnificent...

(Actually I didn't have my lungs examined, it was the qualifying exam for the title "pneumolgy specialist", but anyhow):

Bright the world now shines,
Though shrouded in winter's mist.
Because pass I did!

December again
Gifts, lights, songs, decorations
January yet?

So you passed it then?
Count your blessings, fortunate
It was not a stone

Check the balls on that
big collie fa la la la
la la la la la