Haiku Louie

Cold, rainy days in the middle of winter, in the middle of the freezing heartland, stuck in the middle of our house with NOTHING for a blustering, overactive boy to do was pure misery.  In order to keep me from completely destroying the living room, my mom would challenge my siblings and I to a rousing game of writing short stories, poetry and, her personal favorite, haiku’s.  Over time, as my older siblings grew out of such games and my little snot of a brother not yet having the mental capacity to keep up, these writing sessions turned into high battles between my twin sister, Angie, and I.  We would bicker and fight for hours as to who’s was more imaginative or created better imagery or if a word had 1 syllable or 2... on  and on we’d bluster, until, finally, Mom would step in with a plate of cookies for us and a glass of wine and little yellow pill for her; to "calm" the nerves. 

I bring this up because on a recent post from Jon @ Deep Blue, he resurrected my love of the haiku.  I so enjoyed writing my “memory” haiku that I sent mine off to Ang, to see what she thought. 

Mine was (with a slight modification to the original):

                   Emblazoned image

                   Mind’s eye open, reaching back

                  Capturing your flame

She came back with:

                          Rejuvenated

                   Petals fall upon the earth

                   Whispering your love

If you would like to weigh in on whose is better, I would love to rub my victory into her “I’m so much better than you”, self-righteous ass!! 

In the meantime, getting a little crazy with all this, I have already finished my haiku for Monday’s competition.  The theme is “birth”, and I have come up with the following:

                          A quiet slumber

                   Distant dark to shining light

                   Cries for ever more

Lastly, since I’ve already declared mine to be the best of one, my next theme is “bliss”, which I have come up with the following:

                          Hover just above

                   Ever burning deep within

                   Basking in your flow

I know this isn’t my usual brand of rhythmic pornography, but I just went where the creative flow was taking me.  To make up for the non-eroticism, I’ve added my usual selection of hard, naked men, lathered up and just begging for some of your attention.

Thank you Jon for all your inspiration, and many, many HUGS!!!

RafaDe