Yes, Thanksgiving at my house featured kitchen dancing again (pictured above), which is one of my favorite parts of the holiday. I do feel like there is not enough of that in our lives, So let's haiku about dancing this week! Here, I will go first, with a college memory:
I knew a dancer
She spelled out her address
With limbs (and some hints).
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable pattern and have some fun!
Erstwhile buddy's first
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As "The Nutcracker"
On two left feet with
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Trying to stand up
Study or disco?
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choice. Yeah. Disco won.
Only a few moves
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Would love a partner
Jimmy Page admires
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by Jagger/Richards
Someone told me to
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And joy shall follow
Ha! Perfect topic (I’ll need to post two haiku). I think I’d love Thanksgiving at your family’s house!
ReplyDeleteDancing at my son’s
wedding - “Little bit softer
now,” brings us all in.
The fountain of youth
ain’t in Florida. It’s on
a hoppin’ dance floor!
Dancing adventures,
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Lovely memories.
They were born limbs linked.
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Kiss to Glenn Miller
She looked like a full-blown rose—
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Leapt in space ,fearless.
She in mom’s sewing, they twist
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She dwarfed…Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.!
Righteous the brothers croon O
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They danced, birthday rose , perfume!
Oops! That last line is off two syllables. May be it should be: rose, perfume??
DeleteI am off today . Sorry—must have been the Pina Colada. I want to bless you for this exercise in haiku. It has made me want to write again. Haiku has cleaned up my poetry considerably and definitely increased its output. So, just—thanks!
ReplyDeleteYou are very good at it!!!
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