Friday, June 13, 2014

 

Haiku Friday: Summer jobs


That's my sister Kathy, happily gutting a fish up at the Island last summer.  There is something about summer tasks-- grilling, fish-catching, mowing the lawn-- that get built into our sense of self.  

So that's one kind of summer job you can haiku about.

The other is the more traditional "summer job"-- those temporary employments during high school and college.  Feel free to cover that, if you would like.

Here is mine:

I drove a combine
In thick, lush fields of green peas
Unlikely farm hand.

Now it is your turn!  Craft a poem that has about 5 syllables for the first line, 7 for the second, and 5 for the third, and you are in business!


# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:00 AM
Comments:
Lifeguard at the pool
Tanned, flirting but ready
Save lives in a trice
# posted by Anonymous Casablanca Fan : 8:44 AM
 
KFC kitchen
Dropped a lot of chicken
Grease spill paradise!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 9:31 AM
 
Babysat a cat
It was plagued with demons
Me, terrified boy.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 10:45 AM
 
Forty Baylor Bears,
Exploring the Alhambra,
Spain in the summer.
# posted by Blogger The Medievalist : 11:12 AM
 
The who had it right
No cure for summertime blues
Work = the blues
# posted by Blogger Steelyjaw : 12:27 PM
 
Poor Anonymous! That haiku made me laugh hard.
--

Movie concessions:
Got my fill of popcorn and
free midnight premieres.

Cleaning the popper
is grimy, hot work. P.S.
Never get "butter."
# posted by Anonymous Ang : 1:12 PM
 
Indigo sky chucked
Insults early morning bus
White dress hairnet charm.

Breadsticks white hot shot
Like Missles down the belt,is
THIS my life's work?!

.
# posted by Blogger Renee : 1:54 PM
 
I boxed breadsticks at Gai's Bakery in Seattle at 5 a.m. Boxing breadsticks in Hell.
# posted by Blogger Renee : 1:57 PM
 
I am a lifeguard.
Summer job: a perfect fit.
Meyers/Briggs says so.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 2:23 PM
 
Worst job ever? Mine.
Babysat IPLawGuy
(He was 21).
# posted by Anonymous Tabby : 5:05 PM
 
R&D lab tech
Bakery Applications
Taste testing best part
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 7:21 PM
 
R&D lab tech
Bakery Applications
Taste testing best part
# posted by Blogger Unknown : 7:22 PM
 
A fellow waitress
Lobbed saltshaker at my head.
My testy sister.
# posted by Blogger Renee : 10:48 AM
 
The aged don with
Bergemot scented breath.Silk
Ties kid leather shoes.

I transcribed his notes
And all of a summer kept
A garden in his bed.
# posted by Anonymous Antonia Promessa : 10:54 AM
 
White cupboard of jars
In a Catholic family's house
Eight kids. I babysat.

I also cleaned.Jars
Baby food jars they were,filled
With water. I poured


Water in sink,tossed
Jars in trash...they were filled with
Holy water! Prot!



# posted by Blogger Renee : 5:51 PM
 
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