Category: WOTD – Haiku
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All that’s left is silver.
Roses are red,Violets are purple,Sugar is sweet,So it’s maple syrple. Soon to be three legs,The sphinx’s riddle is answered,Someday I’ll hirple. “Gait interference,A hitch in the get along,Old age creeping in. “
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Our range of smells fits on a grayscale.
Come smell our dairy air. Just like petrichor,A scent related to farms,Hircine aroma.. “Greatest of all time,That smell that follows the rain,Welcome to the farm. “
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Your farrier can help.
Even the pills are bigger. Where to take your ride,When the gallop has a miss,Hippiatric care. “A horse is a horse,Spoonfuls of sugar will help,One bite at a time. “
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We need a word for the moss on trees.
Here’s a group that knows its way around. We Americans,All have something in common,Heteroscian “This zone is too hot,We Goldilocks the planet,This zone is just right. “
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Pathway to conduct music for its conduct in front of the conductor.
I’d dessert this desert if it was drier. Fly close to a dove,Then dove to the door to close,Heteronym Bass. “This haiku needs a pronunciation warning label.. That was always hard for me in grade school. English really said same spelling, different chaos and then made us clap for it.😂😂😂” “That one hurt my brain,No…
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I have no choice.
I was forced to write this. Governed by the rules,I choose just what I am told,Heteronomous. “I will choose free will,If that’s what they would have me do,Lemmings united. “ “This reads like Shakespeare got put on a performance improvement plan. And “Heteronomous” sounds like a Transformer with anxiety. Never understood why people used such…
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Sometimes the definitions just can’t be improved on.
No. Haiku because of the of the beautiful description.Fun to read at parties. Who talks like this? Hemiepes:A dactylic tripody having a spondaic third foot or lacking the two short syllables of the third foot.Half line of the epic dactylic hexameter. As part of the dactylic pentameter; A verse-form which follows a dactylic hexameter to…
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Tell me you don’t have a life, without telling me you don’t have a life.
A PSA and a challenge. This is screaming to be a “dad joke.” Anyone? Tiny cotton balls,Funnier than “looks like milk,”Pockets full of gnurr. “Careful, one more gnurr joke and we’re into fabric softener territory” “Pocket fuzzballs or,Forty days preparation,That’s a gnurrly lent. “
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So many options. More color cones or magnification.
This may be why shades, like goggles, exist. Mid day is too bright,With hemeralopia,Dusk and dawn are best. “Blinded by the light,What we do in the shadows,To protect our cones. “
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Also under benches at baseball games.
An opportunity, parts of a shot, but free. I passed the table, So much food on every plate, Each heeltap calls me. “Heel taps for the poor,More dignified than handouts,Full of surprises. “ “Plate stacked like Jenga,just one little snackChair now fears for life”
Two Old Men 