Haiku ~ The Wedding

Today another Royal couple were created for the House of Windsor (or rather, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, until the political change) and also for the paparazzi. After months of build up we will see further weeks of pictures of the wedding followed by the usual “is she pregnant yet?” speculation for months on end up until the point at least two royal sproglets are dutifully produced to (Royal) Order.

Unsurprisingly, I didn’t watch the wedding, but instead decided to use the opportunity to celebrate the day by restarting my blog (yet again – I’ve been very busy) with the following haiku.

Enjoy, or not, the choice is yours!):

Worldwide coverage.

Amid pomp and vanity,

Privileged couple wed

Having said all this, I obviously wish them all the best for a long and happy future together.

~Richard

May 19, 2018 3

Haiku ~ Bitcoin

It’s funny how things pan out. I was searching Amazon for a new powered USB hub as my last one seems to work no longer, and I am shown USB devices to mine bitcoins. Further reading and I stumble upon this alarming article from The Guardian explaining the effects on this activity as “…a competition to waste the most electricity possible by doing pointless arithmetic quintillions of times a second.”

Has the world gone (even more) stark, raving mad?

Heating our planet

To feed insatiable greed:

Cryptocurrency

~Richard

March 26, 2018 3

Haiku: Love Locked

~ Love Locked ~

Locked there forever

On the fence at Montmartre

A shared sacred heart.

~Richard

August 2, 2017 0

Haiku: Matryoshkapolitik?

~ Matryoshkapolitik? ~

Matryoshka doll

Hiding unspoken secrets

Realpolitik?

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~Richard

May 31, 2017 1

Haiku: Late to NaPoWriMo

~ Late to NaPoWriMo ~

Every year National Poetry Month creeps up on me and I don’t notice it. Finally, a chance for a haiku today…

April, halfway through

Before I see the verses

It’s NaPoWriMo!

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~Richard

April 14, 2017 0

Haiku: Tale of a Circle

~ Tale of a Circle ~

Three point one four two

Twenty-two over seven

Eat your Pi today!

~Richard

March 14, 2017 1

Haiku: Saving Daylight

~ Saving Daylight ~

A great leap forward

But fewer hours of shut eye

As we welcome Spring

~Richard

March 12, 2017 0

Haiku: Time Marches On

I cannot believe we are entering the third month of the year already. I know that everything seems to speed up as you get older, but this is getting ridiculous. It’s Friday already and I haven’t written a haiku for a while, so here goes:

~ Time Marches On ~

Quickly the day flies
For us, time travelers, all.
But one way only…

~Richard

March 3, 2017 3

Haiku: Eight Hours

Earlier this week we spent an interesting (!) eight hours in the local ER, to a large extent at the behest of my daughter’s pediatrician. Nothing overly serious in the end, but it did give me some thinking time, and the Monty Python Hospital sketch did creep into my mind…

~ Eight Hours ~

Needles and vitals
And the machine that goes ‘ping.’
Emergency Room.

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~Richard

February 15, 2017 0

Haiku: Groundhog Day

~ Groundhog Day ~

Punxsutawney Phil
Opines upon his shadow.
We’ve been here before.

By Cephas (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

~Richard

February 2, 2017 2

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Haiku ~ The Wedding

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