Prehistoric Poo

Gild the lily • \GILD-thuh-LILL-ee\ • phrasal verb – To add unnecessary ornamentation to something beautiful in its own right

An Ode to Coprolite

Fossilized Feces

Gilding the Lily of Time

History Is Changed

It's the Same, Only Different

Homophone • \HOME-uh-fone\ • Noun - A word that is pronounced like another word but is different in meaning, origin, or spelling.

A homophone haiku

I chased your chaste love

Your love is a sweet dessert.

Dear don’t desert me.

Look out Below!!!

Defenestration ● / dee-fen-uh-STRAYS-shun / ● Noun – 1: a throwing of a person or thing out of a window 2: a usually swift dismissal or expulsion (as from a political party or office).

Defenestration

Chamber pot out the window

Hey! Regardez l’eau

What is the origin of the word ‘loo’?

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/explore/what-is-the-origin-of-the-word-loo/

This Rock's Gonna Roll...

Otiose /OH-shee-ohss/ Adjective – 1: producing no useful result: futile 2: being at leisure: idle 3: lacking use or effect: functionless.

Otiose Effort

Push the rock up the big hill

Sisyphean task

Delicate Drifts of Pink Snow...

Flocculate ● /FLOCK-yuh-layt/ ● Verb – To aggregate or coalesce into small lumps or loose clusters

Wafting, spent blossoms

Soft, pink petals flocculate

See the hue of spring

Light, and get away. With loud retort!

Efficacious • \eff-uhKAY-shus\ • Adjective - Having the power to produce a desired effect

Ipecac relief

Efficacious music now!

Here’s the “Candy Man”

(Good Grief…what a HORRIBLE haiku!)

National Haiku Poetry Day - The Rain, It Falls...

The rain. It falls...

Hard rain, and soft drops

Charm of Pacific Northwest

Evergreen and sweet

The blessing of the rain...

I welcome the rain

Torrents, sprinkles, soft drizzle

Blesses blooms of May