Friday, November 01, 2013

 

Haiku Friday: Best costumes


I hope everyone had a great Halloween!  It was quite an adventure at my house.  Joy showed up and then commandeered the job of handing out candy, which at one point involved giving one kid a can of sardines, interrogating others about their age, and then kicking one little scamp after a vivid exchange of insults.  (Seriously-- all those things happened).

The costumes this year were better than average.  Lots of superheroes, princesses, and (oddly) Roman gladiators.  Intriguingly, there were no older kids showing up at 9:30, a staple of Waco Halloweens.  (In fact, one year when IPLawGuy was visiting he put on his Lowell Weicker costume and hit several houses to no undue notice).  

Let's haiku about favorite costumes this week-- your own, or someone else's.  

Here is mine:

Simple, classic, easy
I was a ghost! One drawback:
Looked like the Klan.

Now it is your turn!  Make it 5 syllables/7 syllables/5 syllables, and it doesn't even have to rhyme!  


Comments:
A pirate costume,
With snow boots and long underwear,
Snow, twenty inches.
 
Coal miner costume
Was very popular 'til
I sat on their couch
 
Harlan was a shark
But he wouldn't wear the head
Headless shark? Scary!
 
Super sexy cat!
"Will you rub my ears?" I ask.
Everyone says "yes."
 
rOmEO tRIck OR tReAtS

Dog arrived at an
UnGettysburg address: black
Stovepipe hat fake beard

Paying homage to
Abe and Daniel Day Lewis.
Treats? What's not nailed down.
 
Pink feathery mask
Directly from Amsterdam,Marie
Antoinette glittered.

Silver curls atop
Mount Everest hair.Neck blood
Dripped to cleavage.
 
Pirate time! Only
Mom let me borrow Dad's best
white shirt. Bah, humbug!
 
Kitty mask with ears,black
Catsuit spandex,inset Leopard, Catwoman picked Batman

Up from Minnehaha
Academy.Heads spinned
On collective necks.

Black Patent High Heels
On the sidewalk.They plan their
First foray: Grandma's.

 
When Sal dressed up as
Irma La Douce,Could Sherlock
Holmes help it,if he

Was irresistibly drawn
To her mysteries? Difficult
Solve...Pleasurable!
 
White flannel nightgown,
mom-made wire hanger halo:
Voila! An angel!


 
Listen Osler--Geoff sucks and why the hell am I up writing haiku at one in the morning?

Why I date Geoff is
The real mystery. Check your
Love technique,Sherlock.

Or lack thereof.Get
A grip,Casanova. Oh
Yeah...nothing to grip.
 
She was Celtic Saint
Gobnait in cloak bee buttons
Pinned on.No one answered door.

'Course she was 60
At the time. The kids asked who
She was. Hard to explain.

One usually dresses
As a sinner for Halloween.
No one informed her.
 
It was calico
with a toile collar, red nose
Clowns are scary

Others, butterflies,
angels, princesses,so cute...
Clowns are scary

 
Diminutive Dorothy
With Toto in a basket
And red braided hair.

Third year for this theme.
Costume still fits. Love
Her recycling heart.

 
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