Friday, April 26, 2019

Welcome to National Hairball Awareness Day...

A Hairball Haiku

There’s no alarm clock
As good as a cat puking hairballs
Can’t move fast enough!

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Speak Like Shakespeare Day...My Relentless Love...


Inexorable /ih-NECKS-uh-ruh-bull/ Adjective: Not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped: relentless.

Thou art glorious
Thy inexorable beauty
Soothes my weary soul

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Tuesday, April 16, 2019

The Gargoyles Weep...


Gargoyle \GAR-goyl\ Noun – 1a: a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building b: a grotesquely carved figure 2: a person with an ugly face

The pitiless blaze
Engulfs sacred Notre Dame
And the gargoyles weep

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

A stinker of a sonata...


Opusculum /oh-PUSK-yuh-lum/ Noun – A minor work (as of literature) — usually used in plural.

Joel’s opusculum
Read the Horrible Haikus
Some marvelous dreck

Monday, April 8, 2019

Trees anoint us with beauty...

A tree’s sweet spring tears
Spent blossoms, swirling like snow
Drifts of pink petals