Thirty-six degrees,
Easy, clear trajectory.
I could crap on that.
- Argyle Donkeypants
Sharp talons and beak
Slice cleanly, and blue blood flows.
Alas, just a dream.
- Jessie
Season? In haiku?
I can’t deal with the pressure!
Form’s too hard. (Winter)
- Von Zeppelin
On Thanksgiving Day
Nothing says let us give thanks
Like a Smurf balloon
- Daytime Deb
Complicated day
I click on CO and smile,
a moment’s respite.
- Fluffy
Stu G. and Chiku the African Grey enjoyed the Thanksgiving Day Parade 2009 2008 and snapped this beaut.
Two thousand and nine?
I wont rain on your parade
Don’t take our summer
A photograph…from the future?!
I am so confused
Thanksgiving Parade in June?
Helium warps brain.
Brilliant!
Thanksgiving 2009 hasn’t happened yet. Is this the future?
The future is now
This is Christmas in July
and Thanksgiving too
A giant blue Smurf
I could fly down, and pop it!
No… that would be mean.
Wait, is that something like Christmas during summer in Australia?
Perhaps this is a premonition? A vision of the future?
Did “African Grey”
Inspire “Norwegian Blue”?
All the world wondered.
I have one question
My bird brain can’t understand
Why so blue, my Smurf?
What an interesting perspective!!
Clipped wings really suck
I wish I could fly like you
Presents on kids heads
I line the bottom of my birds cage with the auto section so he can feel more like a real bird..
You look down upon
Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
If you’re a parrot
Wow… talk about your bird’s eye view!
Parrot is pondering
“Why must I be locked indoors
While the Smurfs fly free?”
I’m a winged creature,
Don’t need no stinkin’ helium,
Hahahahaha.
Oh it’s a Meg post!
Meg is into the haiku
That makes me happy
(4rly)
Field notes, October:
The humans are worshipping
a strange blue idol.
I sure hope that this
ritual doesn’t involve
the eating of birds.
Is this parrot dead?
No, it is merely restin’
Pinin’ for the fjords
Not motivated
Enough for a good haiku
Early mornings suck
To freely fly
Is not a given
Sad sad sad
Is there a picture?
I cannot see it at all
No inspiration
In Fall I ponder
blue smurf balloon below me
the world parades past
O hai Brinnan
I iz on vacation
iz fun
kittyadventures: Beautiful!
Chiku dreams flying
soaring above he finds prey
Autumn wind-ow pain
hmm feels lame :-/
trying again.
Chiku dreams of wind
His eagle’s wings carry him
Autumn prey beware
O hai Darth Laney!
We haz been missingks you lots!
Glad you’z hazin fun!
Thirty-six degrees,
Easy, clear trajectory.
I could crap on that.
High aspirations, Argyle. Very high.
You call that flying?
Walking with ropes on the blimps
Down Central Park South?
A note on my previous post–I know that’s probably Seventh Avenue, but I had to pick another part of the Macy’s parade route that fit the metre. Such are the constraints of poetry–no wonder so many poets were crazy or died young.
Smurfin’ USA!
“Papa Smurfer, Papa one”
Parrot head, Smurf’s Up!
The parrot head looks like a gargoyle.
[Does, sorta - Ed.]
Blue friend, though tethered
to the ground with cruel ropes,
let your heart float free.
I’m afraid of heights
Alfred the air sick eagle
lurks within my soul
Polly can’t wind surf
This sad bird might as well be
A giant blue smurf
Billie Jean Is Not
My Love She’s Just A Girl Who
Claims That I Am The One
Nice, catloveschanel!
Chiku waits for him
He’s behind the blue balloon
Here comes Santa Claus!
Five-seven-five is
Correct format for haiku
Get it right next rtme
Parrot thinks aloud
“Summer is really weird time
to see floating Smurfs”
@N/A:
And Berthaservant
Pointed out that often they
Mention a season.
@ catloveschanel
OMG What have you done?!
I haz an earworm!
Sharp talons and beak
Slice cleanly, and blue blood flows.
Alas, just a dream.
[My first haiku should probably start "Field notes: November." I forgot that Thanksgiving is celebrated a month later down there than it is up here. Or the parrot forgot to turn the page in his calendar. Something like that.]
Field notes, November:
I’ve found some errors in my
documentation
That blue idol thing?
It happened in November.
And they DID eat birds.
@Sheepy
A season? In my haiku?
I can’t deal with the pressure!
Form’s too hard! (Winter)
oops–
I meant:
Season? In haiku?
I can’t deal with the pressure!
Form’s too hard. (Winter)
This counting as high as seven is too demanding! Can next Friday’s competition be in some other style? Like pointless, boring, long-format essay?
Nekussa: Awesome <3
Field notes: November
They call the blue god "Jokey."
Don't open his gifts.
Field notes: December
They call the red god "Santa"
His gifts are better.
Long-format essay??
But this is the internet!
Short attention spans.
I realize that my haiku has an extra syllable in the first line, but that’s only because I failed to punctuate “pondering” properly. More poetic would have been “pond’ring.”
Grey on grey, feathers
Overlap in scalloped rows,
Neatly, like shingles.
Oh! CuteOverload
Misidentified the float
That’s not Papa Smurf
Well seasoned haiku
Thyme’s running on the meter
We autumn hurry
Chiku(rhymes with Hiku)?
Chiku sees future (November 2009)
Bird can fortell disaster
Smurftastic demise.
Clipped wings and/or strings
Limitations really suck
How I want freedom
On Thanksgiving Day
Nothing says let us give thanks
Like a Smurf balloon
Come closer, you smurf
I want to aim at your hat
and drop something off
(ewwww)
D’oh.
My last line shoulda been, “We autumn s-curry”
Get it? Curry’s a seasoning.
Oh well.
:-p
Oh won’t someone help?
My earworm doth persevere.
I want a new one!
[Try alternating between the Smurfs theme and the intro to "Centerfold" by the J Geils Band. In your HEAD, please; you don't want your cow-orkers to kill you. And if that doesn't work... - Ed.]
I will fly to you.
Then just one tiny nibble,
and pop you will go.
Oncoming Smurf
Most thankful for arrival
of new blue perch
I see you down there -
People, Plastic, Helium.
Overlord, am I.
Yes, crush them like ants.
My rein of terror is now.
Giant blue minion.
@ Jessy: Beautiful!
Now mine:
Daddy lookit that!
Blue birdie flies onna leash!
Don’t try that with me!
@Brinn, was gonna say
LaLa-LaLaLa
La-LaLaLaLa-LaLa
LaLaLaLaLa
But T(Ed.) beat me to it.
Can resist no more.
I must add to the haikus
And Friday spirit.
Complicated day
I click on CO and smile,
a moment’s respite.
Nuffers go away.
Don’t spoil my “cute” break.
Its only for fun.
And now the parrot:
From his aerie he must laugh
at silly blue Smurf.
Nice Fluffy!!!
Smurf is So Eighties
Give Me Up-To-Date Icon
Like J-Lo’s Butt Float
[That would be '90s
[Up-to-date probably means
[Nick Jonas, dammit - Ed.]
For sale at Macy’s
Beautiful African Gray,
Bonus: Papa Smurf.
Wow! That red building on the extreme left is my apartment building.
What are the two strange
orange balls behind the smurf?
‘cannot recognize.
[ ... too many JOKES... aaargh... - Ed.]
No, it’s not Papa.
But here’s the challenge: Can you
Tell which smurf it *is*?
Extry Smurf!
In a bird’s eye view
They slaughter our ranks for thanks
Mocked by snurf – big, blue
Smirkin smurf
Smurf.
No baker’s hat here
No glasses flower or beard
Must be Happy Smurf
(alternate line)
Oh Generic Smurf
(alternate alternate line)
All Purpose Smurf
Big white hat calling
“Look! I’m a floating target!”
Move – I gotta poop!
Parrot vertigo!
Chiku thinks to himself: Gosh,
Humans are stupid.
It is Poet Smurf
Glidding Past my window view
Earthound just like me
“What season is this?
Fall floats in summertime??” asks
Chiku the parrott.
Clipped Wings restrain me
blue balloon floats by my perch
Autumn dreams haunt me
Chiku thinks that is
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Who ya’ gonna call?
Ooh, Annie, #85 is awesome!
Because I can haz
Vacation day this Nomday
I skipped ahead some.
CO Calendar
I thank you for saving me
With Nomday’s bunneh.
His earworm is much
Much more pleasant than MJ
To mine bleeding ears.
I work right across the street from Chiku! In fact, his neck is covering my office window! Neat!
Just breathe deep, parrot.
Think jungle trees, not buildings
And an ugly blue sloth.
Spectators on land
Will be scarred by my attack
On that Smurf’s white hat.
(Ha ha.)
ooh, makes me dizzy…
Though you fly freely
Curious that you lack wings
Who pulls your strings, Blue?
from my perch i stare
i should be flying, not you
i want to bite you!
oh noes I slept through summer again!
Blue foe comes at last…
Leave that girl scout troop alone!
Your fight is with me!
Smurf so big and blue
Looks quite tiny from birds eye view
Want to poop on you…
Archers at the ready!
Blue team, grey team, flank right, GO GO!!
Fruition of plan.
I want to fly free
outside and under the sky.
Let’s switch. Dad won’t care.
***
I wish people would
stand around and cheer and clap
like this when I fly.
I saw that parade on TV!
The parrot wonders:
Tied by ropes, is dragged.
Two giant pumpkins follow.
To his death perhaps?
For the Gods, we have
A Primitive thanks-giving.
A Smurf Sacrifice.
The Smurf sacrifice
Would be much more dramatic
With hydrogen gas
Say! Inclusion of a “seasonal word” (kigo) is traditional in haiku. The kigo can be any word that invokes a season. Taxes, funnel cake, werewolves, gingerbread…
http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
Theo
“With hydrogen gas”?
Is that a Zeppelin joke?
Very insulting.
Insulting? Perhaps-
To the Hindenburg victims.
But they are not here.
: )
I’d not thought of that.
Boom! Oh, the humanity.
Go watch MythBusters.
Balloon hit light pole
in two thousand five. Since then
no parade in wind.
Bird sees the past, hopefully not the future!
Von Zeppelin (and people who recognize the avenue), wouldn’t that be Broadway?
I’ll just leave this right here.
@ kibblenibble: Thanks
The November sky
Beckons me. They cook my kind
On this day of thanks.
Ahem: Please note seaonal reference.
Snicker
Theo, Theo. *Shakes head.*
OMG Teho
LOL @ linky-poo
Oh my, that is huge!
(thank Brynzilla; it was on her Vox
)
Crowds a “no-go” for
Agoraphobic parrot
Views fun from safe spot
@Theo .. ROFL … out loud.. at work
One eye, unblinking
Puzzled by the blue man who’s
Floating yet chained.
That was supposed to be…
One eye, unblinking
Puzzled by the blue man who’s
Floating free yet chained.
Too tired to haiku apparently!
i can’t write a haiku…i feel terrible
Sir Jorge, it’s really not that hard. Line one is 5 syllables, line two is 7 syllables, and line three is 5 syllables.
5
7
5
Sir Jorge, why so sad?
The haiku is not for all.
Look at Bill Shakespeare!
Parrot is happy
That he is not a turkey
To be served this fall.
Pinin’ for the fjords, he is! LOL
According to the list linked to by Patito Gigante, “parrots” qualifies as a seasonal word.
so does “Manatee”
Fly through the air
The Parrots, and Manatees
fly through the sea.
The fat professor,
Put strings on him and drag him
floating, down Broadway.
Want to play a game?
I spy with my beady eye
One of the windows
you are far too bored
for a Friday afternoon
two words: PUDDING BATH
(pudding is SO a season!)
I shouldn’t haiku
When working late on Friday
Can’t resist parrots
(or wordplay)
It’s raining outside.
Afternoon in Florida.
What else can I do?
Drifting Balloon smurf
parrot contemplating life
viewed in “Noir” angle
Theo, don’t stop them -
These comments have made my week!
Many thanks to Meg.
[Why would I stop them?
[Heck, I'm enjoying the ride.
[Party on, people - Ed.]
@Camille– tell me about it! Every summer the eggs they left in the walls start popping open and my whole building is totally infested with those colorful little “guests”. The cat eats as many as she can catch, and I set out motels and keep the kitchen spotless, but every time I turn on the light I see a bunch of them scatter under the stove with my crackers in their beaks.
In what country is
“Parrot” a season? Tell me!!
WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE WHERE?
The stress of haiku
Has caused undue CAPITALS
I’m so, so, sorry.
What if my brain starts
To think only in haiku?
Oh noes. It’s alread
Mary (the first), yep-
I, too, have that problem now.
Is it a bad thing?
Giant grey, big blue.
Epic battle imminent . . .
AiEEE! Godzirra!
Humans, size of ants,
sort of like sesame seeds.
I’m pecking your heads!
i don’t get parades –
floating cartoon characters -
you think this is fun?
thanksgiving parade
bird’s eye view in the city
they all look like ants
(except that smurf)
I better fill up.
Many bird seeds needed for
big poop on papa.
I LUUURVE PARROTS!
i see you just there
big blue fine mamma pappa
come and take me home
Parrot Season!
Smurf Season
Parrot Season!
Smurf Season!
Parrot Season!
Parrot Season!
Smurf Season!
KAPOW!
I must be dreaming
Humans on the street below
Size of tasty seeds
That’s not Papa Smurf.
Ai ar tuu layte foar an Ohai Kuu; but, Wowsers!!!
Talk about a bird’s-eye-view!!!
Peter Gabriel:
“The Smurf Lies Down On Broadway”
Bird says, “Not so much”
@ noelegy LOLOLOL
Owl far above
Sees all as a giant Smurf
Is pulled ‘long the streets
“Oh my god,” said the
parrot ” what the heck is that?”
“It’s a floating smurf!”
That picture made me go xO. Diiiiiiiizzzzzyyyyyyy!!!! And the Smurf was weird… lol
Ah great blue Smurf bird
There too should this great gray be
Parading feathers
Crowd flees blue giant
But I, with sharp beak and claws,
could be their savior.