Rants, mumbling, repressed memories, recipes, and haiku from a professor at the University of St. Thomas Law School.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Haiku Friday: The Olympics!
I figured that it would be a good week to link Political Mayhem Thursday with Haiku Friday, given that the London Olympics are coming up fast. I'll admit it: I love the Olympics. They have just the right combination of formality and goofiness-- the orderly processing/the crazy events-- that I love in almost anything.
Let's haiku about our favorite events. I will go first:
His head explodes!
Japanese Volleyball Coach
Is a little uptight.
Now it is your turn! Just make the haiku 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and then 5 for the third. You can (if you must) make up events that you wish were in the Olympics. The winner gets a bio here on Monday.
Cat toys, mouse quivers
ReplyDeleteAn old game, yet it is fresh
Feline wins the gold.
MMM
Two weeks, a whirlwind
ReplyDeleteCompetitive juices flow
Conflicts forgotten
In 2016
ReplyDeleteGolf is an Olympic sport!?
FOOSBALL in '20!
Guy walks up to gate
ReplyDeleteWith barbed wire. Guard asks, "What Sport?"
Guy smiles, says, "Fencing!"
Bob
Taco Bueno
ReplyDeleteOlympics, 2016
Air mattress mayhem!
Gold, silver, and bronze
ReplyDeleteRaise flags and play the anthem
My fav’rite event
Summer, gymnastics.
ReplyDeleteWinter, figure skating. Both,
agile gracefulness.
Summerfire,no air.
ReplyDeleteEuro faints.Brains,trains clacking.
Brits race home to tea.
She stands en pointe on beam
All hold breath,wait somersault
Squirrel on phone line.
I found it in May
Volleyball and net.Mom's joke.
Serve! Turtle backflips.
Summerfire,no air.
ReplyDeleteEuro faints.Brains,trains clacking.
Brits race home to tea.
She stands en pointe on beam
All hold breath,wait somersault
Squirrel on phone line.
I found it in May
Volleyball and net.Mom's joke.
Serve! Turtle backflips.
London 2012
ReplyDeleteMy friend Latta will be there
Watching the backstroke
Her god-daughter Mie
A member of Denmark's team
racing for the gold
We will watch, anxious
Our loyalty put aside
for just one minute
Diving, gymnastics
ReplyDeleteare all I watch. But SPENCER??
He watches EVERYTHING.
MOM MOM MOM Can we
PLEASE GO WATCH OLYMPIC TRIALS
in EUGENE??? Please? PLEASE???
WHERE did this kid COME FROM????
Went to Atlanta
ReplyDeleteDiscovered men's field hockey
Cheered with Australians
Moved on to horses
Cheered with the Americans
Danced in the fountain
my favorite sport?
ReplyDeleteWhatever America
wins. U-S-A! U...
Two thousand eight. Their
ReplyDeleteshirts just say "Korea." Did
they make up? I'm tired.
Fact: Ecuador has
ReplyDeleteExactly one gold medal...
Men's "race-walking."
Thru hollar and glen
ReplyDeleteGliding upon waxen staves.
Time and target sought.
Be still heart pounding.
Cross hairs eyed - With calm rythem
Trigger squeezed, "ker pling"
In-turn or out-turn
ReplyDeleteO'er droplets froze - to skip's broom
Scottish granite glides.
Draw, raise or take-out,
Swept and pulled to a red dot.
Please, not a blank end!
Visiting Sydney
ReplyDeleteParalympics 2000
Wheelchair Rugby - Rocks!
Aussie, Aussie Oi
Attended gold medal match
Oz over Canucks
The thrill of the Games
ReplyDeleteis lost to a large degree
on taped telecasts.
Has Baylor lost the
ReplyDeletename "Quarter-Mile U"? Johnson,
Wariner......Who? Who?
Most do not medal,
ReplyDeleteNo one cares for the losers,
Forgotten forever.
Our Achilles,He,
ReplyDeleteShaking Ali,bears torch.Dreams.
Old Oak,ascends stairs.