Friday, January 24, 2025

Haiku Friday: The Deepest Cold

 


Here in the north country, it has been below zero-- as cold as -18-- for a while now. It's a good thing, really; this part of the world needs a good deep cold to keep invasive species at bay, among other things. 

It's pretty cold where you are, too, most likely. So let's haiku about that this week. Here, I will go first:

Went out with wet hair
In an instant, It stiffens
Crunchy to the touch.

Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable formula, and have some fun!

13 comments:

  1. Landed in Tampa
    Late yesterday evening
    Needed my mittens

    Brrrrr, house was sixty⁰
    Heat ran nonstop through the night
    Sleeping beneath down

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  2. CraigA11:14 AM

    Night temps in the teens:
    Warm gas fireplace with good book,
    and a touch of Makers!

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  3. Pretty the first day
    Still pretty the second. Come
    the third, slushy mess.

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  4. Anonymous1:25 PM

    Like a scimitar
    Ice sliced through me, troika leapt
    Minnesota sled.

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  5. Anonymous1:29 PM

    From the bath of warmth
    I emerge frozen
    Resolve: Bathe no more!

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  6. Anonymous1:34 PM

    You kiss me in car
    My lips freeze solid. Careless,
    I beg another.

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  7. Anonymous1:40 PM

    Moved from Seattle
    To- minus 30 degrees
    All garments owned: ON!

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  8. Anonymous1:43 PM

    Matchless beauty a
    Frozen rose—frozen derriere
    Not so much. Really.

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  9. Anonymous1:51 PM

    Juncos flutter o’er
    The feeder in fierce cold
    What more can I give?

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  10. Anonymous1:54 PM

    Coyote Lopes o’er
    field,we peer bus windows

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  11. Anonymous1:57 PM

    Coyote lopes o’er
    Field, child peers out bus windows—
    Can he defy such cold?

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  12. She's as cold as Ice
    I never did like that song
    Cold weather, I like!

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  13. Anonymous9:22 PM

    An orange sun pours
    In clear glass my spirit glows
    Till I open door.

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