Haiku Challenge 2012

INTRODUCTION
Each day of February there will be a Haiku prompt offered by this link: HAIKU CHALLENGE 2012 You can register on their site and post your poems to a Mister Linky thingy. If you enjoy writing Haiku this site is well worth a look.They have some interesting challenges for the different days including a NaiSaiKu on day 12.
I will attempt to do as many of the days as I can, however I can't promise to stay the course.
May I take this opportunity to wish all the contributors a Happy February!!!
Andy

Song # 708

Written for and posted to Carry On Tuesday

The prompt this week is the line from a Frank Sinatra song 'Come fly with me... '

Here's mine:

COME FLY

Come fly with me high in the sky
let's float above this thing called love
up up up in the stratosphere
just you and me and him and her
and all the lonely loons at night
that sleep all day in case they wake
come fly come fly come fly come fly
come fly away across the sky
without a care for tomorrow
and if you do I'll meet you there
and if you don't then you don't care
Come fly with me high in the sky
let's float above this thing called love
come fly away across the sky
without a care for tomorrow
and if you do I'll meet you there
and if you don't then you don't care
Repeat
09012012

Song # 709

The following was inspired by Tony Walsh's poem
that was commissioned by the BBC.

WHAT MANCHESTER DOES TODAY
The biggest team in the world V the richest team in the world today
Anyway, it’s derby day, the football barmy red and blue armies
are on the march to the match from the Kippax Street, and the Stretford End
but it’s not only bragging rights at stake in this Manchester derby
it’s the FA Cup, City are the holders, but United are tough
with, Rooney and Giggs. But are City’s, Aguero and Silva enough?
Remember the days of Lee, Bell, and Summerbee, Charlton, Law, and Best?
And all that silverware? Frank Swift and the Busby Babes, lest we forget!

If you can’t get a ticket you’ll be down the pub to watch the big screen
it’ll be the third round at the kick-off, and the fifth round by half-time
and ten pints or more before one side trots off into the fourth round draw.
In every pub in Manchester and for miles and miles around, up town,
down town, red pubs, blue pubs, old pubs, new pubs, everyone will know the score.
You’ll hear the roar as the goals pour in, in Bahrain, Hong Kong, and Bangkok
three or four? Maybe more, home, away, win, or lose, you’ll shout up the booze
to celebrate that what Manchester does today the world still follows…
08012012

There's another Manchester Football piece in this post.