Friday, February 12, 2010

 

Haiku Friday: Family Legends and Snow


Ok, I'll admit it-- I've been kind of busy, and did not get over to the Mayborn Museum to get new photos of things in the curiosity cabinets there. Sorry, man.

Instead, this week we will have two topics:

1) Snow
2) Family legends

I've been thinking about the second topic for a while. Recently, my dad recounted one of my favorite family legends of all-- the time that he and his cousin Toughy went down to Tijuana, and only my dad came back. Here is the resulting haiku:

Madcap Mexico,
Revelry, women, police.
Duh! "Toughy and Spike."

Now it is your turn... just follow the magical recipe of 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables.

# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:02 AM
Comments:
Snow

Beautiful, small, cruel.
Weightlessly trapping us here
Bound together, warm.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:16 AM
 
She fled on a raft
Yet she wed seven husbands
Oh, her civil war.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 12:19 AM
 
Snow, how I miss thee.
I am bound to tropical hell
Palms for want of pines.
# posted by Blogger No one : 2:03 AM
 
Freshly fallen snow
Renewer of hopes and dreams
But PC melts all.
# posted by Anonymous Pope : 7:00 AM
 
In 1931
12 feet of snow in Waco
Dawson still held class.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 7:12 AM
 
Cabin in the woods
Blanket of heavy white snow
Smoke, climbs the chimney


ps. Lane - stop complaining. Oh wait, you are about to be invaded by college spring breakers.
# posted by Blogger Christine : 7:45 AM
 
Toughy?
# posted by Blogger Scott Davis : 2:38 PM
 
Yes, Cousin Toughy.
You know that my dad is "Spike."
Quite a pair, I'm sure.
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 3:43 PM
 
Abandoned coal mines,
Where just canaries and Dad
Dare to go alone.
# posted by Blogger Diana Davis : 5:09 PM
 
Leafy, dirty snow
Barely enough to gather:
Ta da! A snowman!
# posted by Blogger Ang : 5:22 PM
 
The snow fall at night,
Covering both the just and
the unjust alike.
# posted by Blogger The Medievalist : 12:16 AM
 
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