Ophelia
Sweet Ophelia
Waters call you to slumber
Forever to dream
Tri-Haiku FlashComp
Even though I’m banned from entering the comp (see previous post) because I’m sleeping with the organiser, I’ve written a tri-haiku regardless 🙂
I downloaded him
onto my empty heart drive;
saved him for always.
He once used her name
and I tried to byte my tongue,
but it bugged a bit.
He wormed his way in;
a daemon browsing his script.
He is one hot male.
Haiku challenge – Space
I won’t hold you back
If you need some time and space
to find happiness
Vega and Haiku: Bath time double
Vega: “Dad! We had a bath!”
Haiku: “And a shower, too.”
Vega: “Mum’s absolutely soaking.”
Haiku: “She is more wetter than us!”
Vega: “We were very good.”
Haiku: “We got treats after.”
Challenges – Mix it up!
#haikuchallenge – ‘ridiculous’
#tweetkuchallenge – ‘dialogue’
“Ridiculous? Me?”
“You’ve mixed up your challenges!”
“‘Haiku’ or ‘Tweetku'”?
Vega and Haiku – ‘Bad cop’ walkus
Haiku: “Bad cop walk again.
Does she know where she’s going?”
Vega: “It’s a new field!”
Both: “Yay!”
Haiku: “This field is all ours.”
Vega: “Watch out for the Staffie pup!”
Haiku: “Mum! Pick me up, quick!”
Haiku: “Why’s it always me
who has to lie on my back?”
Vega: “It’s me, too, this time!”
Vega: “Buster’s not too bad.”
Haiku: “Why am I still on my back!”
Vega: “You can watch us play.”
Haiku: “Look! There! It’s our car!”
Vega: “Our cage isn’t in the back…
We can ride up front.” 🙂
Haiku: “We’re still in the back.”
Vega: “We can see where we’re going.
I like it this way.”
Vega and Haiku – Labradoodles extraordinaire!
I haven’t had much time to do any quality poetry today, so here is a picture of my puppies, and a haiku they did when I took them for a walk the other day.
Vega (‘Big Bear’) and Haiku (‘Baby Bear’) are two labradoodles. They are half-sisters; sharing a Dad. Vega was born in May 2014 and Haiku was born 6 weeks later in June.
When we were choosing names for the pups, we wanted then to be music and poetry-related. I also love the solar system; hence my nickname, ‘Moon’ and the title of the paper (https://paper.li/f-1411074477) and website (coming soon), so ‘Vega’ ticked a lot of boxes. Vega is the brightest star in the Lyra (Latin for lyre) constellation and we’d been to see Suzanne Vega the week before we brought Big Bear home.
We had a little longer to choose another name. Before we decided to go with a poetry connection, we almost choose Sushi for the little one (we love sushi – Yo!) Once we’d got the Japanese connection, though, Haiku was an obvious choice.
Vega and Haiku love their walks with Dad, and they’ve picked up the writing bug themselves, writing their own diary of haikus, or ‘walkus’, as they call them.
You can follow their antics on Dad’s site, http://graemesandford.wordpress.com/, although with the proliferation of their writing, I think it’s time they got their own blog!
Word in the field it’s that they’re also in negotiations with a publisher for a book deal! Watch this space!
Haiku challenge – Eager
Elegant Smokey
Eager to travel beyond
Emotions apart
Tweetku challenge – the sequel
You are the sequel
Divine, defining chapter
of my once blue life
Jane Sandford 