Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 25

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 25 – February 25th – Theme or Word: Cult Form: - Haiku 3-5-3

Here's mine:

CULT

Sitting there
Brainwashed like piffy
Cultishness

25022012

Here's my Day Twenty-Five from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 24

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 24 – February 24th –
Words: Dream Walks

Thanks to Rachana Shakyawar of Humming Today
because the phrase 'Dream Walks' was coined from her poem.

Here's mine:

I wrote the following for the above prompt from my 2007 poem Dream Walk

DREAM WALKING

His dream safari
Was a monkey tail nightmare
Please don't eat the soup

24022012

Here's my Day 24 from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 23

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 23 – February 23rd – Theme: Joy of Giving
Form: (ABC, CDE, EFA) - Haiku

Here's mine:

JOY OF GIVING
He gives ten per cent
From his income before tax
It gives him great joy

It gives him great joy
every time he pots a ball
To save just one child

To save just one child
Losing at Snooker won't help
He gives ten per cent
23022012

Here's my Day Twenty-Three - Tongue Twister from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 22

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 22 – February 22nd – Theme: Paint the Image

Photo Clicked by Enosh of: Enosh Bansode Photography

Here's mine:

LEFT FOOT RIGHT

Big foot little foot
Little foot goes to the south
Big foot legs it north

22022012

Here's my Day Twenty-Two from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 21

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 21 – February 21st – Theme: Dedication

Here's mine:

DEDICATION

Monosyllabic
I am not a row~bot~tic
Toc

stop

all

the

clocks

21022012

Also written for Carry On Tuesday #145 and everybody who loves me...

My Day Twenty-One from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 20

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 20 – February 20th – Quote:
Live out of your imagination, not your history.

by Stephen R. Covey

Here's mine:

IMAGINATIONS

Mix faith with vision
Inventive transformation
Choose change over chance

20022012

Here's my Day Twenty from 2011

More IMAGINATION here!

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 19

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 19 – February 19th – Theme: Seasons Type: Kigo

Here's mine:

NEARLY SPRING

Snow stops frogs blossom
Skating on the frozen pond
Singing for his mate

19022012

Here's my Day Nineteen from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 18

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 18 – February 18th – Theme or Word: Famine

Here's mine:

FAMINE

One man sees famine
Poverty personified
Another sees feast

18022012

Here's my Day Eighteen from 2011

Monkey tail soup...

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 17

Day 17 – February 17th – Theme or Word: Wait + Paint the Image
Inspirational Image Clicked by Anand of: Apple Blossom's Photography

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

AT THE SOUP KITCHEN

Left on the green shelf
All the sandwiches have gone
Until tomorrow

17022012

Here's my Day Seventeen from 2011

Check this!

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 16

Day 16 – February 16th – Theme or Word: Sin Form: Haibun

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

A SIN NOT TO

The Deafblind Manual Alphabet is the best way to communicate with someone who is Deafblind. In fact it would be a sin not to try to communicate with them. You can learn it quickly, and here's how you do it. Stick out your index finger (that's the long one next to your thumb) on your right hand. Fold your other fingers out of the way. Think of this finger as your pen. You are going to use it to write - not on paper, but on your deafblind friends left hand which they will hold out for you.

She holds out her hand
He spells out L~O~V~E
Communication

16022012

Here's some links to a Deafblind writer, her Newsletter, and her Weblog!


Here's something after the manner of a Haibun that I did in 2010

Finally here's my day sixteen from 2011 the prompt was actually suggested by our host today, SiS.

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 15

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 15 – February 15th – Theme: Paint the Image

Inspirational Image from:
Google Images, Author: Unknown

Here's mine:

ANYONE FOR TENNIS

I've not lost my head
I might be stuck in the mud
But I'm still smiling
15022012

mY dAY fIFTEEN FROM 2011

Fashionista (check this!!!)

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 14

Day 14 – February 14th – Theme or Word: Love or Valentine

Haiku Challenge 2012
Here's mine:

VALENTINE

Catch me if you can
Feasting on Black Noodle Day
Or white candy March

14022012

Black Noodle day explanation

Here's my Day Fourteen from 2011

Here's one on Mad Kane's blog...

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 13

Click~on~the~image~to~see~the~full~picture!!!
Day 13 – February 13th – Theme: Paint the Image

Today is Someone is Special's Nephew Ashik's 2nd Birthday. Happy Birthday ChellaKutti :-)
Photo Clicked by Someone is Special ofFew Miles

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

Ashik's Big Day

In his birthday suit
He lifts the medicine ball
Easy as his smile

13022012

Here's my Day Thirteen from 2011

Here's a really bad dream I had once.

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 12

Haiku Challenge 2012

NaiSaiKu..

I SEE BLUE

Icy Blue
Vocalising green
YOU SEE RED
When describing green
I see blue

12022012

Here's my Day Twelve from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 11

Day 11 – February 11th – Theme: Paint the Image

Inspirational Image by:
Narayana Nethralaya
Haiku Challenge 2012
Here's mine:

FACING SOUTH

Open the third eye
Faster than the shutter speed
Click Photography

11022012

Here's my Day Eleven from 2012

This Indian summer can't last...

Haiku Challenge - Day 10

Day 10 – February 10th – Theme:
Write a Haiku describing about a Special day in your life...

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

MY SPECIAL DAY

Deep inside your soul
Your kaleidoscopic eyes
Staring back at me

10022012

Here's my Day Ten from 2011

CHUGABUGGAWONDER we've just begun...

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 9

Photo: Siva's Art Work

Day 9 – February 9th – Theme: Paint the Image

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

LOCK OUT

Safer than Fort Knox
Lots of locks but just one key
Insecurity

09022012

Here's my Day Nine from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 8

Day 8 – February 8th – Quote:
This Above All, To Thine Own Self Be True

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

THE TRUTH

He gave us his light
And paid the ultimate price
The candle wax man

08022012

Here's my Day Eight from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 7

Day 7 – February 7th – Theme: Life Form: Haiga
Paint/Write your Imagination on an Image for the theme.


Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

LIFE

I chose you
to be my Mother
in this life

07022012

Here's my Day Seven from 2011

Here's an Acrostic sonnet for you...

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 6

Day 6 – February 6th – Theme or Word: Think Form: Haiku & Pi-Ku

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

THINK

The little acorn
Thinks it's a mighty oak tree
Bears the weight of time

06022012

PI-KU (ATTEMPT)

Mighty oak
Thinks
Little acorn
06022012/1

Here's my Day Six from 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 5

T	O	T
O	X	O
T	O	T

Tot	over	talent
onto	xylophone	onto
talent	over	tot

Day 5 – February 5th – Theme: 'Ur' Choice - Form: Acrostic Haiku

Haiku Challenge 2012


Here's mine:

TOT

Tot over talent
Onto xylophone onto
Talent over tot

05022012

And here's a real acrostic poem.

Day Five 2011

1	2	2
2	3	2
2	2	1

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 4

Day 4 – February 4th – Theme: Opposite Emotions

Haiku Challenge 2012

OPPOSITE EMOTIONS

Yang recently Yin
Yang to Yin then Yin to Yang
Yin recently Yang

04022012

Day Four 2011

Batman and Alice!!

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 3

Photo Clicked by Anand of: Apple Blossom's Photography

Day 3 – February 3rd – Theme: Paint the Image

Haiku Challenge 2012

SERVING SOUP

She stands silently
So statuesque, serving soup
Secretly smiling

03022012

Day Three 2011

Not a Haiku but in the same vein!

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 2

Day 2 – February 2nd – Theme or Word: Mother

Haiku Challenge 2012

Here's mine:

MOTHER

Watching over us
She smiles like Mona Lisa
Our Luna Mother

02022012

Day Two 2011

Haiku Challenge 2012 - Day 1

Day 1 – February 1st – Theme: Freestyle

Haiku Challenge 2012

Day 1 – February 1st – Theme: Freestyle.

Here's mine:

FEBUWORRY

Mad as a March Hare
April showers for Alice
January's gone

01022012

Day One 2011

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.

Song # 707

WISH
Christmas kiss me
will she won't she
if she don't
we never will
She could make
my dreams
come true
I think about her
all day through
and with this
piece of misletoe
she can make
my wish
come true
21122011

Song # 706

CHRISTMAS DAY
On Christmas day we celebrate
the revelation of God's love
for God so loved the world that He
sent his only begotton son
to die for all our lust and lies
a sacrifice to pay the price
that lamb of God was Jesus Christ
who lived a blame free sinless life
that whosoever does believe
shall be saved from the punishment
of hell that we rightly deserve
and we will live in paradise
with Him for all eternity
let's celebrate this Christmas day
20122011

Song # 705

NO CANDY
We've not got much for breakfast
we've not got coco-pops
and we've not got no candy
to pop out to the shops
but we've got lots of chocolate
and loads of chocolate drops
and we're going to eat them
before we eat the slops

We've not got eggs for dinner
we've not got chips and chops
and we've not got no candy
to pop out to the shops
but we've got lots of chocolate
and loads of chocolate drops
we found them in the dumpster
they parked outside the mall

There's boxes of chocolates
like pictures on our walls
we've got Belgium sea-shells
and truffels from Nepal
and lots and lots of chocolate
and loads of chocolate drops
but we've not got no candy
to pop out to the shops
12122012

Song # 703

THE PRE-TECHNOLOGITES
You are so far from the truth
I told you that yesterday
and if I tell you again
will you remember your name?

When I whisper sweet nothings
nothing appears to have changed
changing for change sake no not
nothing again!

You are pre-technologists
slashing in the wind in vain
nothing new under the sun
don't you know it's all been done

When I whisper sweet nothings
nothing appears to have changed
changing for change sake no not
nothing again!

It's not that it wasn't there
you just couldn't see it there
with your linearised eyes
look again from Tiny Tree

When I whisper sweet nothings
nothing appears to have changed
changing for change sake no not
nothing again!
03122011

Song # 701 REVEALED

UNDER THE WALLPAPER (REVEALED)
Wednesday morning out on the town if only...
Only it won't be the same without Natasha
Natasha, makes the difference and I don't
Don't don't think things will change that much ever
Every time I think of her she returns
Returns to the mental picture fuzzy
Fuzzy so fuzzy she's fading under
Under the wallpaper where do I look
Lookalikes will never match yesterday

Yes she is my wonderful my only
Only one in this world that understands
Under the wallpaper where do I look
02122011

Song # 702

UNDER THE WALLPAPER
Don't don't think things will change that much ever
Only one in this world that understands
Wednesday morning out on the town if only...
Natasha, makes the difference and I don't

Yes she is my wonderful my only
Only one in this world that understands
Under the wallpaper where do I look
Returns to the mental picture fuzzy

Fuzzy so fuzzy she's fading under
Under the wallpaper where do I look
Every time I think of her she returns
Lookalikes will never match yesterday
02122011/1

Song # 700

SECOND SIGHT
Claustrophobic as the hall stairs cupboard
Cups breaking up having a smashing time
Time after time, day follows night time too
To the woods and onward, upward sometimes

Out beyond the confines of dieing flesh
Fleshpots revisited from a great height
Heightened by the secret of second sight
Sighing as the daylight dawns a new day

Who told you that tomorrow never comes?
Come with me... back to the next century!
Cents, Dollars, Euro's, and Pounds can't buy this...
Thisaway or that? Lure versus the pull.

At the speed of thought we ride the night air
Airing cupboards of the mind unconfined
01122011