Lamentation Seventeen

Once again, Tess Kincaid ups the Sunday tempo with her new picture prompt.

A Timely Haiku

Wee bloke in Subway

pleads "Man Ray,destroy me not!

I'm the Metro Gnome."

Lamentation Sixteen

Snog Warning

"Who cares about rain,"

she told him through their kiss. Both

caught their deaths of cold.

So just what has Magpie 141 got to be cheerful about? Read some and find out.

Lamentation Fifteen

Weight Watchers' Warning

(Midnight Snack, 1984, by Curtis Wilson Cost)

Don't count calories

or your gobbly midnight snacks.

Count your heart-attacks!

My pessimistic response to Magpie 139, here.

Lamentation Fourteen

Two Haiku To Confuse

"Shall we dance?" "I need

a doctor!  Where've you sprung from?

The previous post . . . ?"

"And while we're at it -

Where's Lamentation Thirteen?"

"Don't look for bad luck!"

Serious writers will find rewarding Magies making better use of the Willow Manor prompt HERE.  The picture is:  Sick Woman, 1665, by Jan Steen

Lamentation Twelve

Two-Step Haiku

The Sailor: "Dancing's

the vertical expression

of flat-out intent."

Venus: "In your dreams!

You'll neither dance nor grope me when

you're falling-down drunk."

Tess Kincaid's weekly prompt and many responses to it can be found here.
The picture is: Venus and The Sailor, 1925, by Salvador Dali

Lamentation Eleven

Haiku on Target

Breakfast, 1921, Fernand Leger

Please soft-boil my eggs

so when they splat this picture

goo might improve it -

 Tess serves up a cryptic breakfast Magpie this week.

Lamentation Ten

Tess at Willow Manor raids another art gallery for this week's prompt.

A Correct Plural Haiku

(Summer Night, 1913, by Albert Bloch)

Would I joke with you?

You guys should watch out!  There are

octopi about.

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