the eve of St. Nick's
"is it the fifth already??"
mad scrounging for treats

forty-two years old
and I'm just learning to spell
the word dilemma

Must send them to school!
Twice yearly temper tantrum
I feel better now.

it is with great glee
that I see the  pony beads
meet  vacuum cleaner

One from my clever dh:

Long word haikus rule

Antidisestablishment-

arianism

:)

Seven Quick Takes: Haiku Version
(over at my other blog)

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being a math geek
haiku prompt spurs me on to
define harmonics

A harmonic is
a wave whose frequency is
integral multiple

of the frequency
of some reference signal
or wave. f, 2f.


poetry and math
creates it's own harmony
in my bizarre brain


Posted for Sensational Haiku Wednesday prompt: harmonics

grief's thoughts clattering
afraid of the opposite
deafening stillness


Written for the One Single Impression prompt: Stillness

studying Japan
yen, tea, Fuji, kabuki
think I'll teach...haiku :)

My ten-year-old daughter made up this poem and it actually fits the haiku model (not intended). I loved it and wanted to remember it:

I kicked a pumpkin
Oh my gosh, it hit a tree
branch and came down - squash

Get it...squash?