Sunday, November 11, 2007

haiku to a spatula (a welcome home)

deftly tossing eggs
scraping the pan with such ease
welcome home, old friend

like a prisoner
freed from long forgotten war
finally at home

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

See...you don't appreciate what the simple things until they are gone...that is the lesson that Mark and I were trying to teach you...You are Welcome!!

Kris

Jack Croupy, alias said...

Why don't you just ask Kris to get you a superduper-ultraextreme-uppity,overpriced, but totally hip spatula from her new work?!

she's good for it...

Jack Croupy, alias said...

Can you remind of the rules of writing a(n?) Haiku?

Anonymous said...

Haiku (hy-koo) is a traditional Japanese verse form, notable for its compression and suggestiveness. In three lines totaling seventeen syllables measuring 5-7-5, a great haiku presents, through imagery drawn from intensely careful observation, a web of associated ideas (renso) requiring an active mind on the part of the listener.

Anonymous said...

How reluctantly
the bee emerges from deep
within the peony

...if you know what I mean...

Matt said...

did you write that haiku or find it?

(freud would have fun with you)

But on another note, I have always liked the haiku form. It forces you to distill a concept to a simple few phrases.