Tag: Cats

Summer of Cats and Covid

Lake Mendota

7/10

Cumulus fractus

Seen from above, so below

A tranquil lake scene

Photo by Simon Matzinger on Pexels.com

7/14

Princes in towers

Ought not lean out the window

On blustery days

The book was Peace Talks by Jim Butcher

7/17

Doctor sits on me.

I just got a new book and

he won’t let me read.

There was a chipmunk…

8/20

Countess’s vigil

She sits on the windowsill

Doctor waits to see

Highway 151

8/25

Yellow road-runner

Tooling down the highway; man,

that spoiler be spoilin’

How undignified!

8/28

Sucks at adulting

Crusader in apathy

These are my taglines

Haiku June

Six photographs for the sixth month of 2020

The ceiling is collapsing!

6/3

Things falling apart

Our ceiling cannot hold when

Anarchy is loosed

Quit looking at me, Iris.

6/8

Flower confusion:

Irises blue or purple?

Eight percent are blue.

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

6/17

I did not feel like

Composing haikus today

For crying out loud

All that fur must be strictly ornamental

6/19

FEAST YOUR EYES UPON

THE FUZZY GLORY OF MY 

SOLAR PANEL TUMMY

Sigh…it’s not actually a bag

6/24

The cat’s in the bag

Eyes wide with excitement she’s

Peeking out at me

A plague of damselflies

7/6

Many damselflies

Are attracted to my arm

Only God knows why

Office Poetry

I like to write silly haiku poetry while at work. Here is a sampling of my efforts over the past six months, alternating with my amateur flower photography.

I hate limericks

I prefer to write haiku

This is easier

A.R. Grimes
I couldn’t help it, they were so yellow and pretty like sunshine!

THE HAIKU TODAY

IS BY NO MEANS ELOQUENT

OR AT ALL FUNNY

ARG
Close-up of a white peony, Georgia O’Keefe style.

EAT PURPLE CABBAGE

IT IS VERY GOOD FOR YOU

UNLIKE MOUNTAIN DEW

ARG
Not a purple cabbage, but a lovely purple iris!

ALICORN PRINCESS

SHOULD BE MY FACEBOOK I.D.

SO MANY PONIES!

ARG
Okay, this is a photo of My Little Pony toys, not flowers. Just thought this would be more appropriate to pair with the haiku. And yes, I do have more than these six ponies in my possession. Pega-sisters unite!

Beautiful sunlight

Let’s blow this Popsicle stand

And all go outside

ARG
It’s a beautiful day…perfect weather to go for a walk on the Glacial Drumlin State Trail.

SOMETHING IN THE AIR

IS MAKING MY HEAD ACHE HERE

I FEEL LIKE BARFING

ARG
Urgh…and then flowers burst out of the toilet?!

FILL EASTER BASKETS

WITH CANDY AND TOYS, BUT KNOW

YOUR REDEEMER LIVES

ARG
Do you see the butterfly?

It’s too nice today

to consider tomorrow’s

forecasted weather

ARG
Her Excellency, Graefin the soot panther definitely agrees.

Too much stuff is bad

Too little of anything

Is also not good

ARG
Confucius say…What the phlox?

Although I claim that

APRIL is the cruelest month,

MAY can be mean, too.

ARG
Yeah, just look at how gloomy it was that day…in May.

NO INTEREST SHOWN

SO TODAY HAS BEEN CANCELLED

GO HOME TO YOUR CAT(S)

ARG
All five of them, in this case. No, these cats are not mine. I was cat-sitting for a friend.

INDUSTRIAL SIZED

HEAVY BALLOONS SLALOMING

ACROSS THE BLUE SKY

ARG
Sorry, kids, no balloons here. Nobody here but us blossoms.

IT’S ALWAYS RAINING

IN THE DARK DEPTHS OF MY SOUL

I NEED SUNSHINE, PLEASE

Google Weather says

That the sun probably will

Peek out of the clouds.

ARG
These are pretty irises.

HOT, STICKY OFFICE

LEADING CAUSE IN CREATING

CRABBY EMPLOYEES

Perfumes can’t cover

Permeating the office

The vile stench of death

me
These peonies are not only lovely but they smell wonderful.

My rule with haiku is to whip one out in less than 2 minutes – usually during my breaks at work – so these were pretty raw and generally silly.

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