A gruesome gremlin
Dredged from the depths to inspire
Your horror haiku
That looks like a three-towel job, Lorena C.
Friday Haiku: … And Don’t Feed Them After Midnight
October 30, 2009 By
A gruesome gremlin
Dredged from the depths to inspire
Your horror haiku
That looks like a three-towel job, Lorena C.
awwwww….! I’m SO watching Gremlins tonight!
awwwwwww droopy ear-furs!
I’m drippinks with goo!!!
Trying to be scary! “Boo!!!”
Alas, I’m still prosh…
Wow! That’s one amazing fur ball caught in the drain. Ew!
I’m so cute it hurts
And hurt you I surely will
But first a towel please!
You need to pronounce towel as “towl” to give it only one syllable.
My ears stick out far.
I look like The Flying Nun.
You really like me!
A signature scent
Is every puppy’s best friend
Mine: Eu de Dead Mouse
I squeeze him to me
shirt soaking up the water
no towel needed
Strange gremlin
That has moist nosicle
Limpid eyes, and teeny pawsitude
I can not get wet!
Brussel sprouts will grow on me
Turns into gremlins
Mogwais have to be
the cutest things in the world
Not so for gremlins
You are so getting
A SPECIAL Halloween treat
In your leather pumps!
Way back in the day
Bathtub gin was made with grain
Does this taste funny?
[Semi-relevant linkage added
- Ed.]
Yoda?
[Seek me, do you? - Y-Dogg]
Damp like water bowl
Shivering in my moist shame
Wet dog smell won’t leave!
lady i got your
sink all fixed. i’m cuter than
your average plumber.
fixed = 1 syll
average = 2 syll
i hope!
[To make extra certain, you could contract it like this: av'rage - Ed.]
damn doggie shampoo!
just when i was starting to
smell like a real dog
Cute gremlin-like pup
Grab a towel and cuddle
Beep beep beep
Ok, maybe poetry isn’t my thing…
Please don’t use Draino
This clog will remove itself
When it’s time for treats
This dog looks A LOT like my dog Kira! We call her gremlin too
@ Katiedid – BRILLIANT
You wouldn’t do this
to the d@#$ cat so why
to me – rotten trick
earworm hijack: commence!
Though I’m the one who’s soaking wet,
Your body starts to SHIVER –
For no mere mortal can survive
The CO of . . . the THRILLER.
Vincent Price evil laugh: “Ah, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . . .”
I is not scary.
Present I leave in your shoes,
Now that be scary.
It’s a wet Yorkie!
Poor thing looks so despondent.
“Mommy let me out!”
At least, that’s what my mom’s yorkie “says” when he’s getting a bath. And those dogs have to be bathed weekly.
Foul breath of sewer
animates hairball and sludge;
terror from below!
A slow swim upstream,
a narrow squeeze at the drain,
the Thing finds the sink!
I”m warning you now:
Don’t go into the bathroom;
you’ll never return….
Have a happy, spooky Halloween everyone!
WOW! LOL at all y’all. Gizmo, aquamarine… and a whole bunch of others. CO poets rock!!
Nice one, Oakley! (#19) If only all our drains could clear themselves!
Evil balloons fly
Fanged clown climbs out of sewer
No, wait. That was “It.”
“Come close, if you dare,
And I shall have my revenge:
It’s the SHAKE OF DEATH!!
Mwa ha ha ha ha!!”
Shake splatter splatter splatter
shriek cower collapse.
(Somehow I don’t think this is what the Japanese had in mind when they developed this poem form…)
almost forgot the seasonal reference!
ah, fall on the moors
soft showers of brown yorkies
breathe sweet puppy breath
jenn, i’m sure you’re right, but oh, friday haiku feeds my soul!!! i love reading all of these!
Little dog works hard
To smell just the way he likes
Now he starts over.
Drip, Drip, Drip, water.
What IS that funky odor?
The Cute is worth it.
LOVE IT @ dub1
*gears up for all-day Thriller-dance in the living room tomorrow* LOLOL
Gave my dog a bath.
Didn’t go as well as planned.
Hooray for groomers.
Dipped, dunked, and ker’plunked
Baptism is no help for
Horizontal ears
Midnight in Arkham
Cthulhu is done dreaming
“I can has world end?”
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Horror from the deep
Gruesome, drippy drain monster
Wants braaains now!*
*you have to say it zombie-like for the syllables to work
Off-label use of
Yorkie ears; horizontal
And not vertical.
I was a black lab
When I got in this d**n sink
Stupid hot water!
Argyle Donkeypants & Dogma: GOOOOOOOD!
Placing my happy vote for Everybody
(But my extra shiny vote, with Rhinestones attached, to Aquamarine @ # 15!!!!)
Do you prefer pink or silver Rhinestones?
dog snorts scornfully,
smells like wet human in here;
and you thought I stunk!
Gremlindog is not amused.
Never mind the towel.
I will roll myself dry
on your new down comforter.
@ resreichan: you humble me, madam! :-[ + O:-)
(that’s supposed to be a cross between an embarrassed smiley and an innocent smiley—embarrassed + innocent = humble? i am rather smiley deficient.)
if my choice is pink or silver rhinestones…..may i have chocolate covered peanuts?
A full-on glare and
Then the paw-sy lifts right up;
“I am now Teh Qte.”
Hot water all gone
Disappeared into the sink
Shivering commence!
p.s. LOL @ dogma!
How can I help it?
Smelly things, rub them I must
Bath is punishment
OMG I thought for a second someone stole my dog, took him to a strange white bathroom and bathed him!! He looks just like my Yorkie, Dante – complete with the “Why Mommy? Don’t you love me anymore?” look!
I used to love you.
I’m not so sure anymore.
Don’t fall asleep tonight.
oh woe misery;
next time just use spray shampoo
and my tail will wag
@Charliewabba,
you know it!
Call teh Ghost Busters.
I drip with ectoplasm.
I have been slime-ed.
You punish me so,
soap suds, water and splashing,
I shall fly away!
I am no gremlin.
Pay no attaynshions to those
pods on my back, please.
Call the Ghost Busters…
Again. The sewer is full
of pink slimy goo.
Bobbing for apples
is fun until you fall in.
New scent: eaux de pomme.
@lauren: more like eau de pomme de terre
Baby may be cute,
But he will grow and won’t fit
If you try to flush.
When Yoda had hair
the sewer pipes he did live
sink popping surprise
Wet soapy pup in tub?
Or victim of autumn rain?
Too prosh, either way.
Why have you done this?
Turned me into a gremlin?
Oh! For Halloween!
Drenched, soaked to the bone
Medieval ladies wore
Hats like his wet ears
I like charliewabba’s haiku. Wish I’d thought of it first.
Simple directions:
Never get them wet or you’ll
be sorry – oh noes!!
Had to give my stinky hedgehog a bath tonight and he just sits there, his front paws hooked over the bowl rim, his face set in a resigned expression, waiting for the water torture to be over with, so that he can be all wrapped up in towels. This Yorkie has similar mannerisms – I feel his pain and indignity of being bathed.
Hi QoD!! Nice Halloween Haiku !!
@ Aquamarine: Ma’am, we are honored to be of service. We have arranged the following 3 items, for your selection. Enjoy your prize(s) in good health, ma’am !!
(Sp. Note: I located some groovy graphics…one of ‘em has a fairly complex address, so it won’t all fit onto one line; hope that you’re able to just click & go there. If it won’t work, I’ll take awhile more to find another item)
http://www.plumparty.com/partysupply/graphics/products/large/15571.jpg
http://www.crystallinecouture.com/images/mouse.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_DYyFjDeifR0/SZ32Pq-lT6I/AAAAAAAADTU/acym2Mpzrqg/s320/CharlotteRusseHelloKittyRhinestoneBelt.jpg
Signed,
Your Humble Servant in Cuteness
@ Blondie re # 18
Regardless, it is evident, that “beeping” certainly is!!! Such elegant wrist action !!!!
deserve this? not me!
i lick and snorgle my parts
next thing i know-splash!
the force WAS with me
my light sabre striking true
a jedi knight , i AM!
loser gets bath first!
take you hands off me, i say
three kings beats three queens
you say you like art?
jackson pollock splatter paint
your wall with wetness
pay me no ‘ten-shun?
your texting is annoying!
you tap, you get wet!!
doggeh smell down drain
whats left, i’ll put on your bed
sniff, sniff. now lets snooze
large drippy bat ears
weapons of wet destruction
i’ll shake them on you
hey, you missed a spot
come closer, closer….. closer!
ha-ha!! now catch me!!!
yes i’m a yorkie
a hallo-weener dog, not
so turn off that grille!
Anyone else notice that the 2nd line is 8 syllables? “Inspire” is three, but it could work if you didn’t count the ‘re’ as a syllable.
[Actually "inspire" counts as two, just like "fire" is supposedly only one syllable. I know, I know; but English does have its quirks. - Ed.]
@resreichan:
aww, you shouldn’t have! while the rhinestone studded mouse is awfully tempting, i am unable to resist the chocolate covered VIRGINIA peanuts, no less. mmmmm…..crunch, crunch….licks fingers……crunch crunch crunch……..
i can hardly wait for next haiku friday!
I’ve never seen “this comment is awaiting moderation” before. I was wracking my brain trying to figure out what I said that wasn’t cute-friendly. Then I noticed you actually corrected my haiku in the previous post. I wasn’t expecting that, thanks! And people say you can’t get good service anymore…
@ Daytime Deb:
Thus the term “Our Gracious Editors” !!!!