Lamentation Twenty Seven

The Icecutters' Lament: A Hiceku

Thick ice, very cold.

Very thick ice hard to cut

and we're cold. Very.

The picture above, (The Ice Cutters, 1911, Natalia Goncharova) is Tess Kincaid's prompt for Mag 198

Lamentation Twenty Six

A Haiku for Lovers

The Moth and the Lamp, Cesar Santos 

The moth says "Your love

sets me aflame." The flame says

"Yours suffocates me."

This Cesar Santos picture is Tess Kincaid's prompt for Mag 187.

Lamentation Twenty Five

A Haiku in Passing

Two cars crash head-on

in the passing place. Too much

courtesy can kill.

Tess Kincaid's prompt this week invites disaster. (Mag 183 is here.)

Lamentation Twenty Four

A Snapped Elastic Haiku

You think I enjoy

standing like this?  If I don't

my knickers fall down.

The prompts from Willow Manor are unfailingly entertaining.  Mag 181 is no exception.

Lamentation Twenty Three

Haiku on Two Manuals 

Drawing Hands, 1948 by M. C. Escher 

For once the right hand

knows what the left hand's doing . . .

And it's off the cuff!

Thanks to Tess for this Mag 180 prompt, shown HERE.

Lamentation Twenty Two

Haiku On the Law of 
Unintended Consequences

Man with shotgun thinks
"Don't look gift car in the tyres!"
BANG!  Car falls on head.

Another satisfactory tale of mishap and woe suggested by the Magprompt HERE.

Lamentation Twenty One

Supermoon's . .

. .  at perigee, but

you've never been so remote!

No apologee?

Reader's may forgive this dreadful play on words.  Or maybe not.  Prompted by Tess Kincaid at Willow Manor.    Image: Supermoon 2013, Julio Cortez, AP 

Lamentation Twenty

Posted in response to Mag 159, prompted by Tess Kincaid.

Haiku for a Lovesick Sailor

She shot him one glance.

Holed beneath the waterline

He sank without trace.

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Lamentation Nineteen

Haiku for the Lost and the Lonely

"Are you quite sure, dear,

 you keyed Buckingham Palace

 into the satnav?"

Tess Kincaid offers a weekly picture to encourage us to write something. Anything! More HERE.

Celebration One

Lamentation Eighteen

Mag 153 prompt from Tess Kincaid.

Haiku in Vinyl

I've found a flat, black

disc which has a central hole.

Is this a record?