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Summertime... and the haiku comes easy

Postby Enzo » Sat May 27, 2006 1:17 am

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
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Postby Lance » Sat May 27, 2006 6:23 pm

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

We are writing these
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Postby Enzo » Wed May 31, 2006 4:00 am

I love the haiku
We do not have to rhyme it
And "orange" is OK.
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Postby Doe, John » Wed May 31, 2006 4:48 am

pardon me, but isn't OK two syllables.? i admire your ability, i can't write poetry for nothin'.
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Postby Enzo » Wed May 31, 2006 7:54 am

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

I say Ornj, not or-anj
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Postby Enzo » Wed May 31, 2006 8:02 am

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
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Postby Joffan » Wed May 31, 2006 12:51 pm

most of us mortals
despite our many talents
cannot write poetry
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Postby Мастер » Wed May 31, 2006 2:10 pm

The spawn of Satan
Darkening the skies above
United Airlines
They call me Mr Celsius!
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Postby Doe, John » Wed May 31, 2006 11:32 pm

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

I say Ornj, not or-anj


oic











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Postby MM_Dandy » Thu Jun 01, 2006 12:37 am

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.
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Postby Enzo » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:02 am

furry camel kin
oh how can they be online?
too much to ponder
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Postby Doe, John » Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:39 am

bears shooting arrows
and writing japanese poems
this world is unreal
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Thu Jun 01, 2006 4:11 am

Must not be easy
Typing with hooves or big paws
Guess we are a zoo
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Postby Enzo » Thu Jun 01, 2006 8:09 am

claws and paws to type
counting all my blessings that
I am not a snake
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Postby Arneb » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:36 pm

As Arneb, the hare
I would at least have small paws
To stroke the keyboard.
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Fri Nov 24, 2006 1:53 am

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

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Postby Arneb » Fri Nov 24, 2006 2:43 pm

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!
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Postby umop ap!sdn » Fri Nov 24, 2006 5:45 pm

Coooooool. 8)

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And all this time I'd seen your screenname on both BAUT and sky charts and never made the connection. :oops: (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... :lol:

Gray and long of fur
He doesn't chase laser beams
The other two do
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Postby Arneb » Fri Nov 24, 2006 10:26 pm

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

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Postby Enzo » Sat Nov 25, 2006 5:08 am

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


(refers to another thread around here somewhere.)
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Postby Arneb » Wed Nov 29, 2006 9:18 pm

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

(At 10:15 GMT tomorrow, to be precise)
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Postby Enzo » Thu Nov 30, 2006 4:53 am

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...
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Postby Arneb » Fri Dec 01, 2006 7:51 pm

(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!
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Postby teri tait » Sat Dec 02, 2006 12:33 am

December again
Gifts, lights, songs, decorations
January yet?
In my hands I hold a candle whose flame is small to see, And if I give but one light to you my life is filled for me.
But...In your hands you hold a torch for many eyes to see, So hold it high that they may light their candlewicks from thee.
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Postby Enzo » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:41 am

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
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