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Hollylane · 05-30-2012, 10:41 AM

Oops, a hernia...
Guts spilled, no zombies present.
Menudo sound good?

*Anya* · 05-30-2012, 11:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hollylane

Oops, a hernia...
Guts spilled, no zombies present.
Menudo sound good?

LOl!!

One of your absolute best haiku!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Perfection achieved
Hernia not funny, ouch
Yum, menudo, yum

Cin · 06-05-2012, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hollylane

Oops, a hernia...
Guts spilled, no zombies present.
Menudo sound good?

I have got to make more time to check the planet. I almost missed this. Hilarious Haiku. Menudo indeed!

Cin · 06-05-2012, 05:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hollylane

Oh dear...I can't stop laughing, and I have an umbilical hernia...This is not going to end well...I just know it...

Stop laughing. Right now.

Oh dear, too late.

Too little too late; a day late and a dollar short. The story of my life summed up right there.

I'm sorry, it seems I've taken your misfortune and make it about me.

I had a client who was so good at this she made it an art form. Here's one particularly amusing example:

Dawn: "Something terrible happened to me at the grocery store yesterday."

Me: "What happened?"

Dawn: "I was standing in line to cash out and the guy in front of me punched the cashier in the face."

Me:

Me: "That must have been horrible for you. More so perhaps for the cashier?"

Dawn: "I was shaking all night. And I had to wait forever to pay for my groceries."

Hollylane · 07-14-2012, 12:15 AM

The bills went unpaid
Yet, when the lights did go out
They were still surprised

*Anya* · 08-04-2012, 04:40 PM

Heart ripped out, arteries
Hanging by a thread
Blood pooling on the floor
Soul vacant, trust gone
Sadness moved in
No room for anything else

*Anya* · 08-08-2012, 05:00 PM

Never mind.

*Anya* · 08-16-2012, 07:48 AM

Tears now drying fast
Accepting reality
Head removed from vice

*
n
vice
(Engineering / Tools) an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws

Hollylane · 08-18-2012, 09:38 AM

Gogyohka:
• 5 lines of free verse
• No set syllable pattern
• Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath
• Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words

I bet we can have some fun with this...

Example:

Sole commander of my ship

with the flow

I go

and the pen

is my alter-ego.

by Ruth Berdah-Canet

Hollylane · 08-18-2012, 12:51 PM

I tried to write a good Gogyohka...but this happened instead:

Near the shoreline
I will go
To be near the magnificence of Mother
Where the pounding of waves
Reminds, that like patterns in sand, most slates wipe clean
Though some,
May require the power of repetitive rinsing…

Hollylane · 08-18-2012, 09:08 PM

Somehow, this puts my lack of creativity today into perspective...

Droppings?

So, it’s was morning again
The coffee brewed
While the songbirds sang
And there was hope for a revelation
But nothing other than bird shit arrived.

*Anya* · 08-25-2012, 11:11 PM

The beach, whether it be bay or ocean

I can breathe freely and at peace

The sadness lifts and my spirit soars

I will remember always and forever

When I was loved

*Anya* · 08-26-2012, 05:58 AM

This is my shorter version trying to use Gogyohka principles. It is difficult!

~The beach

sets my spirit

Soaring and free

Remembering when

You loved me~
_________________________

Gogyohka

• 5 lines of free verse
• No set syllable pattern
• Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath
• Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words

*Anya* · 08-26-2012, 02:01 PM

It's been
4 weeks
28 days
672 hours
40, 320 minutes
I still breathe

Hollylane · 08-27-2012, 09:54 PM

Bad Gogyohka...

Paper thin walls
fail to insulate
as screams grow louder
the wall banging goes unnoticed
one should try turning up the TV

*Anya* · 09-01-2012, 12:08 PM

Before and after

Joy at finding love
Wonder at the feeling
Touching your soul, finding it open and receptive
We were in the same place
My head on your chest
Listening to your heart beat
Reading your thoughts, feelings, hopes,
love and need for me in print
Pouring out of you
Hearing your ache for me
Missing me
Wanting me
Saying you wanted to grow old with me
Then
I allowed myself to believe, really believe
Loved you unconditionally
Openly
Totally
Completely
With my whole heart, soul & body
Allowed myself to feel my need for you
Now and always
Shared that with you
Shed tears
Missed you so
Still believed we were in the same place
Only to find
A minefield of words
My hope and dreams for the future
Now gone
Still trying to understand
How it became
Before and after

*Anya* · 09-08-2012, 07:27 AM

No more looking back
Instead, looking ahead now
New butch very cute!

*Anya* · 09-13-2012, 04:35 PM

Enough heartache and pain
Time for healing and forgiveness
Honor the love that was
Even though it is no more

lusciouskiwi · 09-26-2012, 10:22 AM

I wrote this sometime last month but don't remember when exactly. Hopefully it's not too bad.

I can see you
standing over there
a reflection passing
thousands of miles away
a breath
a pause
eyes a gaze
my way
but you can't see me
loneliness that's like
fingernails down a
blackboard
I see you
a shimmer
a breath on my neck
I want to plunge my hands
into your skin
to drown
in the scent of you
like the softest cotton teeshirt
that you've had for years
my hands on your back
I feel like a cat in
heat
from you
that you
for me
fill me

*Anya* · 09-27-2012, 07:38 AM

Two forward, one back
Trying to move on today
Back is the hardest

07-14-2012, 12:15 AM	#145
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08-04-2012, 04:40 PM	#146
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08-08-2012, 05:00 PM	#147
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08-16-2012, 07:48 AM	#148
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Bad Haiku, continued Tears now drying fast Accepting reality Head removed from vice * n vice (Engineering / Tools) an appliance for holding an object while work is done upon it, usually having a pair of jaws __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

08-25-2012, 11:11 PM	#152
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	The beach, whether it be bay or ocean I can breathe freely and at peace The sadness lifts and my spirit soars I will remember always and forever When I was loved __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

05-30-2012, 10:41 AM	#141
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08-18-2012, 09:38 AM	#149
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,362 Times in 5,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	Gogyohka: • 5 lines of free verse • No set syllable pattern • Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath • Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words I bet we can have some fun with this... Example: Sole commander of my ship with the flow I go and the pen is my alter-ego. by Ruth Berdah-Canet

08-18-2012, 12:51 PM	#150
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,362 Times in 5,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	I tried to write a good Gogyohka...but this happened instead: Near the shoreline I will go To be near the magnificence of Mother Where the pounding of waves Reminds, that like patterns in sand, most slates wipe clean Though some, May require the power of repetitive rinsing…

08-18-2012, 09:08 PM	#151
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,362 Times in 5,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	Somehow, this puts my lack of creativity today into perspective... Droppings? So, it’s was morning again The coffee brewed While the songbirds sang And there was hope for a revelation But nothing other than bird shit arrived.

08-26-2012, 05:58 AM	#153
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Difficult Hollylane! This is my shorter version trying to use Gogyohka principles. It is difficult! ~The beach sets my spirit Soaring and free Remembering when You loved me~ _________________________ Gogyohka • 5 lines of free verse • No set syllable pattern • Short & succinct lines, governed by the duration of a single breath • Captures an idea, memory, observation or feeling in a few compelling words __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

08-26-2012, 02:01 PM	#154
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	It's been 4 weeks 28 days 672 hours 40, 320 minutes I still breathe __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

08-27-2012, 09:54 PM	#155
Hollylane Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: . Preferred Pronoun?: . Relationship Status: . Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: . Posts: 11,495 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 34,694 Thanked 26,362 Times in 5,875 Posts Rep Power: 21474862	Bad Gogyohka... Paper thin walls fail to insulate as screams grow louder the wall banging goes unnoticed one should try turning up the TV

09-01-2012, 12:08 PM	#156
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Before and after Joy at finding love Wonder at the feeling Touching your soul, finding it open and receptive We were in the same place My head on your chest Listening to your heart beat Reading your thoughts, feelings, hopes, love and need for me in print Pouring out of you Hearing your ache for me Missing me Wanting me Saying you wanted to grow old with me Then I allowed myself to believe, really believe Loved you unconditionally Openly Totally Completely With my whole heart, soul & body Allowed myself to feel my need for you Now and always Shared that with you Shed tears Missed you so Still believed we were in the same place Only to find A minefield of words My hope and dreams for the future Now gone Still trying to understand How it became Before and after __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

09-08-2012, 07:27 AM	#157
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	No more looking back Instead, looking ahead now New butch very cute! __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

09-13-2012, 04:35 PM	#158
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Non Haiku Enough heartache and pain Time for healing and forgiveness Honor the love that was Even though it is no more __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner

09-26-2012, 10:22 AM	#159
lusciouskiwi Senior Member How Do You Identify?: femme lesbian feminist Preferred Pronoun?: Anything except for "aunty" Relationship Status: Happy with my butch. Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Aotearoa New Zealand Posts: 2,681 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 25,494 Thanked 9,095 Times in 1,899 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I wrote this sometime last month but don't remember when exactly. Hopefully it's not too bad. I can see you standing over there a reflection passing thousands of miles away a breath a pause eyes a gaze my way but you can't see me loneliness that's like fingernails down a blackboard I see you a shimmer a breath on my neck I want to plunge my hands into your skin to drown in the scent of you like the softest cotton teeshirt that you've had for years my hands on your back I feel like a cat in heat from you that you for me fill me __________________ happiness is a form of courage. George Holbrook Jackson Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. Katherine Mansfield Motivate yourself or be miserable. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. Wayne Dyer

09-27-2012, 07:38 AM	#160
Anya Infamous Member How Do You Identify?: Lesbian non-stone femme Preferred Pronoun?: She, her Relationship Status: Committed to being good to myself Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: West Coast Posts: 8,258 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 39,306 Thanked 40,445 Times in 7,285 Posts Rep Power: 21474858	Two forward, one back Trying to move on today Back is the hardest __________________ ~Anya~ Democracy Dies in Darkness ~Washington Post "...I'm deeply concerned by recently adopted policies which punish children for their parents’ actions ... The thought that any State would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable." UN Human Rights commissioner