Am I a giant? / Or lost in surreal madness? / Your haiku decides
Thanks for the trip through the looking glass, Betsy B. Photo by the squirrely John C. His Flickr photos are here.
Update: NTMTOM here, pickin’ some faves (as of noon Pacific Time):
Am I dreaming you,
Or is it you dreaming me?
Let’s never wake up.
(Cath)
Master Skwerla teach
Young Skwerlwalker Ways of Force
Pumpkin, lift you will?
(Metz)
Window shopping sqwerl
Sees stripes are in this season
And giant handbags
(Trabb’s Boy)
contemplative hands
what the hell is that blue thing?
oh, look- tiny me!
(temperance)
Beautiful rodent
In an unaccustomed role
Big man on campus
(Raymond)
Squirrel’s autumn gaze
My double, safe and secure
While I adventure
(Berthaservant)
Behind the window
artificial reflection
of my perfection
(Nuri)
at the stroke of noon
your coach became a pumpkin
my nuts hit the floor
(Patito Gigante)
Is this happening?
Maybe I’ll go ask Alice.
Chihuly pumpkin??
That is not a skwerrl.
Why is it pointing at that?
None of this is real.
I have found him, now.
He will be my mini me.
This force field is lame.
It took a minute
To figure out what the hell’s
Wrong with the pumpkin
It looks like his stem
Is just a big curlicue
Trailing down his side
Brinann, I’m thinking,
It’s big blue armor plate things
Like Stegosaurus.
You and me, buddy
We are to travel the world
Shame glass between us
Am I dreaming you,
Or is it you dreaming me?
Let’s never wake up.
[
Nice! - Ed.]
Theresa, he may
Just have a large, weird growth on
His epidermis.
OOoh, Cath, I love that one!
Through the glass darkly…
Is this a fun house mirror?
I’m a REAL squirrel now!
The little people
inside this big-screen TV
are not so little.
Why so silent, friend?
Have I offended your calm?
Hello? Who sees this?
* Pretty sure I don’t know how to write haikus because I fell asleep during that part in high school English class.
Stegasaurus yes
Still don’t know what it means though
Christmas Cactus, too
Fe-Fi-Fo-Fum
I like Lynch’s films,
but I’m not clever enough
to understand them.
[Laughing out loud here.
[I've seen a few Lynch movies.
[You're not the problem. - Ed.]
Blah blah blah squirrel
Blah blah blah little squirrel
Blah blah blah window.
through the looking glass
chasing rabbits tra la la
are you my girl friend?
Poor Liliputian
Squirlio is trapped inside
Where no acorns grow.
Please stop your pointing
It is rude and strange to see
Yet you continue
You like thees punkin?
Eet ees fancy glass punkin.
Ees yours for seex nuts.
There are two of me
I can’t talk about Fight Club
Do not ask me please
[NO idea what you're on about.
- Ed.]
Oh dear, sweet Theo
What in the world are seex nuts?
Where can I find them?
Great Skwerl Folded Paws
Share with me sekrit of life
Eat more nuts small one
Master Skwerla teach
Young Skwerlwalker Ways of Force
Pumpkin, lift you will?
Where to get seex nuts?
Hmm, lemme get back to you.
It’s not what you think.
Squeak squeaker squeakum
Squeaks squeaky squeako squeakin
Squeaky Squeaker Squeakum
Brinn knows a skwerl that haz 2. :-p
CoffeeCup I think
That may be a quote from the
Emperor’s New Groove
*snerk* Metz do you know
How to post a linky-poo
To to that pic from here?
Haiku Friday, Peeps!
It’s five-seven-five or fail!
Count those syllables!
She used pumpkin bait.
I said, “Chip, you can’t trust her!”
I hate being right.
On a lighter note:
Window shopping sqwerl
Sees stripes are in this season
And giant handbags
If I had not typed
Two ‘to’s accidentally
That would have been right
[It's not about you.
[OK, not JUST about you.
[/analretentive] - Ed.
Haggling over price
seex nuts iz pricey trinket
I will give you two
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k207/brinnann/Houston%20Zoo/DSCF0170.jpg
Photo credit due
To my dear dear friend Brinnann
Kudos to her skills
#33, pt. 2 FTW!
I am haunted by
The eternal question. It’s
“Where is the peanut?”
Seex nuts?? I knew a guy with seex nuts once…. there’s gotta be a few limericks in there!
[HEADSMACK]
Squirrely wonders
What to bring home from his trip
As a memento
He thinks it would be
Funny to bring back mini
Version of himself
(Anyone else know
The song by No More Kings called
“Leaving Lilliput”?)
Brinann, you are right
I had to watch a vid
To get it all right*
*The video was coincidentally, in Norwegian, which I don’t speak. So the only part I did understand was…”squeak squeakum squeak squeak” …..
HAHA @ Theo !
Cath should win some sort of prize for her lovely haiku … thanks for the lyrical (and cute) moment!
Poor, Poor, Poor Theo
Don’t bang your head on the desk
Here is some asprin
Small frozen comrade
Your liberation comes soon
After the pumpkin’s
Hahahahahahahahaha *breathe* Hahahahahahahahahaha *breathe* Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha *klunk* [forgot to breathe, passed out, fell over]
You guys keel me! I love you people!
Theo, I’m confused.
Your last haiku only works
if you don’t pronounce “/.”
Perhaps I should say
Your last haiku felt weird, ‘cos
I DO pronounce “/.”
[Web developers.
[Always getting pedantic.
[HTML5? - Ed.]
May I please come in?
I’m cold and lonely out here.
Life is so unfair
There was a guy from
Nantucket who kept all his
Nuts in a bucket
[
- Ed.]
Theo, does this mean
That each comment on each post
Must Haiku today?
contemplative hands
what the hell is that blue thing?
oh, look- tiny me!
Umbilical cord
Dangles from pumpkin’s forehead.
Squirrel is rather impressed.
I think I love you
Are you my long-lost baby?
But you have not grown
Wait! I messed up! Redo:
Umbilical cord
Dangles from pumpkin’s forehead.
Squirrel is impressed.
I had Syllable Overload. Oh great and mighty Theo, please to forgive!
[OK, this time.
- Ed.]
Did I look bigger
In this mirror or that one
Is this pumpkin “me” ?
Brinnann, we can’t stop
Compulsive haikuing
Say all haikus like Shatner
[5-6-7?
- Ed.]
Skippymom, I think
Your first try would’ve worked as:
“Skwerl’s rather impressed.”
Tell me, Squirrlio
Does this gourd make me look fat?
The truth is out there
Oh noes, CoffeeCup
Priceline Negotiator
Is heard when I read!
X-Files reference
Might be unintentional
But I still like it
LOL at CoffeeCup
Now I can’t stop doing it
Star Trek I must join
Brinnann, technically you’re right about that. However, I only use “skwerl” at home when conversing with the cats. (E.g., “Oooooh, boys, boys, c’mere! Lookie at the cutiepatootie skwerls in the yard! Such swishy fwishy tailios!”)
In public, I always employ the more formal “Squirrels”.
Ah, silly squirrel
You belong outside all day
Go back to your tree
I am a fan, yes
Squirrel does not get answer
about his spare tire
Don’t think I’ve ever
Heard it pronounced as “skwe-rel”
Always sounds like “skwerl.”
Then again, I do
Live in a rather redneck/
Hillbilly area.
Shatnerized haikus
not such a great idea
internet implodes
Pumpkin in window
with miniature squirrel
Have I lost my nuts?
(Pre-emptive strike: Miniature is correctly pronounced with either 3 or 4 syllables. I use four.
)
[works for me - Ed.]
Should have specified:
“Fairy Godmother, I need
Big coach, human prince”
Instead of Shatner
how about some Connery?
Lets all say “goulash”!
Baby skwerl says “Go!
You may be my birth father
But Pumpkin’s my DAD.”
Beautiful rodent
In an unaccustomed role
Big man on campus
(That’s a nod to Dads
Everywhere. All kinds of Dads.
Birth, Step, Adoptive.)
Raymond’s submission
Has broken my train of thought.
Unless Raymond’s “Dad”.
Streetwise squirrel sez
Squirrels who eat big pumpkins
Of course will be stuffed
Teho, I realized I had done 5-6-7 after I hit submit…I originally had it right, but strangely thought I had it wrong, and oy, things just went craaaazy.
I’m back to 5-7-5 now. Quit that successive number thing like a bad habit!
Don’t forget the fact
That haiku typically
Mentions a season
Squirrel’s autumn gaze
My double, safe and secure
While I adventure
Hello, is it me
you’re looking for? caus’ I can
see it in your eyes
groan! @ pyrit!
almost as bad as how much can a koala bare?
can I have some goulash Mr. Connery?
Christmas Cactus plant
confuses the hell out of
seasonal haiku
Pensive squirlio
Contemplates teho’s head smack
I don’t have seex nutz!
yeah, neither do I
not even Snoop Dogg has seex
a man can dream, though
Behind the window
artificial reflection
of my perfection
Nice, Nuri!
It’s not what you think!
We weren’t doing anything!
She’s just an old friend!
I’m not stupid, dear.
Now I know why you’ve started
calling me “Pumpkin.”
and cath is on FIYAHHH today
the vid was in norsk
which I don’t speak, so I heard
squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak
Christmas lights still up?
Pumpkins were SO last season.
Hey Dude – it’s summer!
Seex nuts, did you say?
This squirrel seems indignant
He only has two
Haikus are tricky
in the Autumn of my life
Can I have that Skwirl
(come to think of it, seex nuts would be très awkward; I’d need a trailer)
P.s. I love Nuri’s Haiku!
Two nuts in the hand
are, as everybody knows,
worth seex in the bush.
…I’ll get my coat.
LOL Theo!
OK, that’s it, my ass has officially been laughed off.
BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAplop.
at the stroke of noon
your coach became a pumpkin
my nuts hit the floor
Patito Snicker
Oh, you wouldn’t dare
Chipmunks in glass houses should
not throw fragile gourds
Cath, I must admit
After post 93, we
all should give up hope.
None shall ever trump
The greatness that is that post.
Innuendo-ful!
:gasping:
seex in da bushes??
Oh my! don’t get me muddy!
And the squirrels might see!
hee hee hee!
You know if men had
seex nuts they would not stop
scratching themselves there
baw haw haw ~ Paunchie gots da sillies fo’ sho’.
Awkward chuckles now
Post one oh one goes too far?
Hey look, a cute squirrel
Checking reflection
For I do NOT look like that!
He has such small bits
Cath at ninety-three
Wins the all-time brilliance prize.
(Can we come and watch?)
Oh! Well I apologize then. You know it’s true about the scratching though!
Why dis punkin’ here?
Christmas Cactus in My Way
Stuffed One is Badger
Poor mini squirrel
Stuck inside all summer long
To guard glass pumpkin
Trying to write funny
season including haiku
Can’t type while laughing
Try again small one
Acorns are not made of glass
Check another tree
interesting, Metz
I wonder what “glass” rhymes with
can’t seem to find it
Ed., how do you know
how many nuts Snoop Dogg is
packing under there?
[You can't open the book of my life and jump in the middle. - Mal]
Paunchie, I’m laughing
Or rather biting my lip
So boss doesn’t hear!
Seeex nuts went walking
Down a very dark alley
One was assaulted
ayup there sonny
it’s definitely Friday
was there any doubt
“my nuts hit the floor” would have ended mine better. Damn.
Nuri… it’s like you
wrote a poem instead of
splitting a sentence
[OK, fixed it - Ed.]
Chip points, “my big friend”
They say a pump in the hand
worth seex nuts in bush
A ghostly image
As seen in the looking glass;
Lost in reverie.
Theo seeks a word
Rhyming with glass is easy
If you spell donkey
That was bad wasn’t it? :-/
Paunchie, the bushes
aren’t muddy this time of year.
Let’s go gather nuts!
Brinann, please take care.
Is peace at work really worth
a hole in your lip?
I like daniellie’s.
I can’t stop thinking about
the ghost in the glass.
Glass
@ss
Grass
Class
mass
gas
Pass.
Ohhh yeah I could make some real good poems with those words.
That is some big nut
Why little guy has it
Is he a lil skunk?
Must have that orange thing
but invisible force field.
Will now stare hole through.
Innocent squirrel
Kept far from the madding crowd
Knows not of real love
G-rated poems
Almost as fun as writing
S & M haikus
(not that I have ever done that sort of thing!)
squirrely becomes huge
looks through the glass display
now i hav no job
Artificial skwerl
says, “Tonight we dine in HEEEEEEELLLLL!”
Tasty fake pumpkin
the whole class passed gas, how crass!
My long lost brother:
Wish I’d met him before he
got put in prison.
Hello squirrel neighbor,
May I interest you in some
Autumn pumpkin pie?
you’d need bigger pants to hold the seex nuts…
A peer, motionless
Beyond the glass barrier
So close yet so far
Haiku has season?
First I’ve heard of it. I must
Spring into action!
Fall pumpkin color.
Winter cactus too. Summer
real squirrel. Some are not.
Oh, my God! There’s a
the pumpkin with turquoise nobs!
Had some bad acorns.
I am curious
to see what else the humans
have stashed for Winter.
Summer starts Sunday
Not That Mike The Other Mike
Hooked me on haiku.
Watching cartoons? No,
These cartoons are watching me
and creeping me out.
Lil’ dopalganger.
Why embrace the big acorn?
Please share with big friend.
Time of summer squash
I’ll squash anything I see
Mwahaha, Big Squirrel
Cath–any Cath haiku– and Anner (98)–bestest.
Small squirrel, pumpkin,
Giant squirrel in the snow,
Glass seperates all
I nominate Nisielli. The haiku sounds sad but not too sad.
[You are Nisielli, idiot. And "gail the second". And "culinerycutie" and other fake names besides. - Ed.]
I like CCat’s one.
Yeah but does it LIFT and separate?
oh look, little me
or am i big little him?
confusion ensues
oh look, little me
hi, little version of me!
or am i big him?
Friday Haiku-time:
Does it end when Friday ends?
Or extend all week?
Friday Haiku tag,
Do you come with instructions?
We can haz guidelines?
I love these Hai-kus
I’m in honoured company
Of worthy poets
What am I missing
Friday – it is Haiku day
I shall remember
Join us next time, for
Reality-Casual
Friday poetry
What is this I see
Theo has an Avatar
how you get that PIC!
[That's me with Mister Bounce, maybe 5 years ago? - Ed.]
Nicole tried to help
Saw it on my laptop thanks
Why I no see here
I read your message
Visited with Tiny Pics
Now All is quite Clear
now I understand
with the help I am getting
I may do this too