Time for a new category here at the Refuge, namely "Hokey Haiku". It's just a fun way to communicate a simple thought or observation of the day in a mere 17 syllables. Don't expect Robert Frost or e.e.cummings though.
Summer's vanishing
Where is my calculator?
The semester starts
Yep. I'm back on campus.
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Something told the wild geese
It was time to go,
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, "snow."
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, "frost."
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice,
But each wild breast…
Second cup of Joe
Tired of life, graduate school
A new term begins
or...
The evil gnomes know
Of my doctoral pressures
And destroy my data
Haiku?
Gesundheit.
Wiping tears away
Wont stop the chest from heaving
So why hide the pain?
What the hell...
Nobody is going to believe me anyway...
Fuck it!
John McCain lost five military jets...
One was not his fault...
Which one?
I could sit here and opine all night long,
but I ask you,
What's the point?
Remember when ya didn't like broccoli,
but now ya do?
Yummies!!!
Gimmie a grinder with double meat
and double cheese,
but hold the hots.
Tonight, I feel like a hot dog
With bacon & cheese...
I'm on a roll.
While Autumn prepares
Summer lolls like a young girl
The weather is warm
Bill, I like your entries, but usually Haiku is taken as three lines of 5-7-5 syllables to achieve the 17 total. But I note that the rules have weaken over the years (and a syllable is only an approximation to the Japanese sound count anyway).
Learning? Not really.
Another year of school means
More hoops to jump through.
If it is just hoops
and there's no learning at all,
try a new major
(a time-honored prescription)