Jul 16
Haiku 1098
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: dogs, peace, toadsJuly 16th, 2013
Mar 15
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: dogs, snowman, winterMarch 15th, 2013
Mar 07
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: alone time, dogs, finding self, motherhood, parenthoodMarch 7th, 2013
Jan 11
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: dogs, Han Min, motherhood, puke, school, tired, tirednessJanuary 11th, 2013
Jan 05
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: dogs, fear, imagination, trees, Twilight, vampires, winterJanuary 5th, 2013
They bluster and bark
at an empty tree. What’s there
I wonder — vampires?
Damn Twilight. Ever since I read those books, I can’t shake the feeling that vampires are lurking in my night trees, watching me as I take my dogs out before bed. If you only knew how many nights I’ve hurried my dogs inside while keeping an eye on the sky. It’s even crossed my mind that my dogs are probably safe from these monsters of the night. They’re so small, they wouldn’t provide much sustenance. But then that leaves me . . .
I’ve tried several times to write a haiku about this fear, but I’ve either never been pleased with the outcome or, in a fit of self consciousness, chickened out when it came time to push the publish button. Surely readers would think me silly.
But since we’ve decided to relax our approach to haiku this year, to let ourselves write about whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial, I decided it was time to finally share my vampire jitters.
Feb 26
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: bed, dogs, NaHaiWriMo, sleepFebruary 26th, 2012
Feb 19
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: amusement, dogs, grass, hunting, mice, NaHaiWriMo, winterFebruary 19th, 2012
Feb 08
Posted: under Alison's Haiku, Daily Haiku.
Tags: cold, dogs, NaHaiWriMo, virus, winterFebruary 8th, 2012
Oct 25
Posted: under Daily Haiku, Kelly's Haiku.
Tags: Autumn, dogs, fall, Halloween, neighborsOctober 25th, 2011
Oct 11
Posted: under Reviews.
Tags: Buckles, Buckles comic strip, clippings, comic strip, David Gilbert, dogsOctober 11th, 2011
I’ve written in this space before about my mom’s habit of “clipping.” When she comes across an article she thinks I will find interesting, she “clips” it out of the newspaper or magazine and sends it to me.
Many months ago, she gave me a clipping from an article in the Wall Street Journal about President George W. Bush that said he liked haiku.
More recently, she gave me a haiku-related comic strip that she clipped from the paper:
Oh, how sad and true this haiku feels to me. But it’s only sad and true if this is, in fact, what my dogs do when I’m away. Maybe they don’t pine for me during my absence. Yet their exuberant greetings lead me to believe they do…
This isn’t the first time my mom has clipped a Buckles comic strip for me. After all, in my family, we’re devoted dog lovers and Buckles is all about the life of a spoiled dog.
And actually, my mom has clipped Buckles haiku for me before. It seems David Gilbert, the comic strip’s creator, has a hidden love of haiku.
I’ve tried to contact Mr. Gilbert in the past to find out if he has a collection of Buckles haiku, or if he would be up for telling me more about his haiku streak. Maybe with this blog posting, I’ll finally get a response!