~ 8:57 ~
Eight fifty seven.
Seventy-two minutes gone.
Four sixty-eight left…
Haiku: High Flying Food
After seeing this remarkable story this morning I felt inspired to commemorate the occasion with a simple haiku:
~ High Flying Food ~
Epicurean
meat and potato pastry?
It’s pie in the sky!
Haiku: Black Friday
~ B l a c k F r i d a y ~
Tempers flare, shots fired
Ignored by the craving crowds
Black Friday indeed*
*Inspired, if this is the right word, by the depressing statistics on http://blackfridaydeathcount.com/
Somehow my abstract “The Meaning of Life” seemed an appropriate image (click image or here for more information)
~Richard
Haiku: White Collar Machine
~ White Collar Machine ~
White collar machine
Discharging bureaucracy
With a stifled scream
~Richard
Haiku: True Colors
~ T r u e C o l o r s ~
A few minutes talk
revealing his demeanor.
True colors exposed
~Richard
Haiku: Matthew
~ M a t t h e w ~
A Saint he was not
as he tore up land and lives.
The Storm called Matthew
~Richard
Haiku: Journey’s End
~ J o u r n e y ’ s E n d ~
Delicate traveler,
gave us a glimpse of the past.
Thank you, Rosetta!
Back story: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37511861
~Richard
Haiku: Rhinoceros
Today is world rhinoceros day. As I haven’t written a haiku for a while I dedicate one today to this wonderful beast…
H a i k u – R h i n o c e r o s
Horned megafauna
Myopically wandering
Beautiful rhino
Haiku: Bygone humor
Today Gene Wilder died, at the age of 83. He suffered from Alzheimer’s Disease for the final years of his life but didn’t want it to be known for one, amazing reason: he was still regularly recognized by children as Willy Wonka and he wanted them to only be happy when they saw him.
Here is my humble tribute to the late, great actor who made me laugh so much over the years:
Haiku: Bygone humor
Leo Bloom, Wonka,
the Waco Kid, Frankenstein.
Wilder Days indeed!
Haiku: First Internaut
Today is Internaut day, the anniversary of the opening of the World Wide Web to the public by CERN on August 23, 1991. We used to consider a generation to be approximately 25 years so, to my thinking, 2016 now means that the web has come of age. There are billions of people now who cannot comprehend a time before the web existed. We live in a time of faster, borderless, communication and more open exchange of ideas. Society may still struggle with this shift in global information flow, but personally I think it has been a positive experience so far.
I take the opportunity acknowledge the world’s first Internaut, Tim Berners-Lee, using the much older medium of haiku:
~ The first interanut ~
Connectivity
Information free flowing
We thank you, Sir Tim.
~Richard
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