Monday, 5 August 2013

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.




Sunday, 28 July 2013

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.

Tuesday, 9 July 2013

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 

Monday, 11 March 2013

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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Sunday, 17 February 2013

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





Tuesday, 29 January 2013

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?