When I Say
I like peanut butter
You call me a chocolate-hater
And when I say I like chocolate
You say never trust anyone who despises peanut butter
Like the ad said, I like peanut butter in my chocolate
I like chocolate in my peanut butter
I like rain and sun, night and day, dogs and cats
(big ones, like lions), salty and sweet, coffee and tea,
wine and craft beer, beach and mountains, stars in the sky
and stripes on zebras
There are things I do not like, which fall under my unalienable right
to not pursue things that lead to unhappiness, like roadkill.
I like people who do not like me back, and if we meet again,
I’d like to share a package of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
one for You
one for Me
Friday, April 14, 2017
Haiku Friday: Chocolate
It is kind of about chocolate, but not really. What stuck in my head was this line: "I like people who do not like me back..."
At first, I empathized with that view, thought "yeah, I am like that!" Then I recoiled, think "yikes, am I like that?" The revulsion was born of the sense that if you like people (or institutions) that do not like you back, you probably lack self-esteem.
But then another thought came. Isn't it really the case that it takes great belief in one's own value to like people who don't like you back-- isn't a sign that your own self-worth is not dependent on what others may think, and that you can even recognize the good in people unlike you?
So, anyways... let's haiku about chocolate this week. Or, if you would like, something else. Here, I will go first:
Chocolate bunny
I nibble your ear and stop
It just feels... heartless.
At night, in the dark
I put you in the freezer
And there you still sit.
Now it is your turn! Use the 5/7/5 syllable pattern and have some fun.
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Love that you highlighted Megan, whom I love, here.
He ate the pasta
In the garden of olives
then brought me a mint
He ate the pasta
In the garden of olives
then brought me a mint
I will think about chocolate haiku and maybe come back.
I clicked on the "Have Tea, Will Write" link in your post. It led me to a poem that ended "Buckle up, buttercup. There is no return trip." So painfully real right now...
Thank you for sharing this.
I clicked on the "Have Tea, Will Write" link in your post. It led me to a poem that ended "Buckle up, buttercup. There is no return trip." So painfully real right now...
Thank you for sharing this.
"Dad, I have a gun!
Right there in my room! Just shoot
Them already, Dad!"
Scott Evil
Right there in my room! Just shoot
Them already, Dad!"
Scott Evil
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Add chocolate to hops.
Sounds like a beer recipe;
Also makes bunnies.
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Add chocolate to hops.
Sounds like a beer recipe;
Also makes bunnies.
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