haiku

As a writer, Kacie loved Haiku's. I found this description of what a Haiku is on the internet:
"Haiku is a poetic form and a type of poetry from the Japanese culture. Haiku combines form, content, and language in a meaningful, yet compact form. Haiku poets write about everyday things. Many themes include nature, feelings, or experiences. Usually they use simple words and grammar. The most common form for Haiku is three short lines. The first line usually contains five (5) syllables, the second line seven (7) syllables, and the third line contains five (5) syllables. Haiku doesn't rhyme. A Haiku must "paint" a mental image in the reader's mind. This is the challenge of Haiku - to put the poem's meaning and imagery in the reader's mind in ONLY 17 syllables over just three (3) lines of poetry!"

I remember Kacie and I had found on Craigslist.org (a online classifieds page/ community forum) that they had a discussion forum for every city just on haikus. We were in awe at the haiku's that people were writing in. We tried to sift through some of the cheesy ones and find really funny ones. She was always trying to find humor wherever she could. This is a series of haiku's we found by someone on craigslist a few years ago. Pardon the bad language but they are actually really funny. Kacie and I laughed for hours about these. Both being experts at moving and living in tons of different apartment complexes we too had shared this authors dilemma many times.

Feb 25, 2006

Haiku ..1__
Turn off your fucking alarm clock,
Noisy alarm clock_
Reverberating through the_
Entire building__

Haiku ..2__
Maybe you didn't_
Realize just how loud it_
Actually is__

Haiku ..3__
It sounds like a big_
Fire engine..except, right_
Next to my eardrum__

Haiku ..4__
It's been going off_
This time, for twenty two minutes_
Are you fucking deaf?__

Haiku ..5__
Is it possible _
To buy a softer one? Or,_
turn it off sooner?

Remembering thes Haiku memories with Kacie, I decided to try and write some haiku's myself about different moments I had with Kacie... here goes

Haiku 1

Sharing a mirror
Getting ready to go out
Glazing lips with gloss


Haiku 2

Frying pan sizzling
I sat in the window seat
You wore your sweat pants