Assorted, in Haiku
May 31, 2007 @ 2:50 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
Registration for
summer Bravewriter courses
begins tomorrow.
***
Ants in my keyboard:
Not that I would ever eat
cookies while blogging…
***
Do you know all these
words? ‘Merican Heritage
thinks high school grads should.
Most of the words on
that list are entire lines of
haiku by themselves:
circumnavigate
obsequious xenophobe
recapitulate
***
I’m nearly certain
I have counted wrong somewhere.
Are you checking me?
I can’t decide how
many syllables in the
word "entire." Two, three?
Perhaps it depends
on just how Southern you are.
En-tye-err? Ent-ire?
Related Posts
Comments
7 Reponses | Comments Feed
Christine M says:
Lovely Haiku. Don’t forget to submit it for poetry Friday. The round up is at Adventures in Daily Living – http://adventuresindailyliving.blogspot.com/
On May 31, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Tia says:
Totally creative and talented post! Love it!
On May 31, 2007 at 4:46 pm
Lisa says:
Fun post, Lissa! I was counting syllables without even thinking about it… how’d you know? Maybe “entire” technically has 2, but it sure sounds like there’s another 1/2 syllable in there when this lifelong Hoosier says it and I’m sure there are Southerners who can get at least another syllable or two out of it!
On May 31, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Ellen says:
I thought the Southerners would be the ones pronouncing entire with 2 syllables: en-TARR. Loved the one about the ants!
On May 31, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Theresa says:
Baa haa!I was counting and entire totally threw me. I know it SHOULD be 2, but goldarn it if it don’t sound like 3 when I say it. Y’all.
On May 31, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Amy says:
LOL about the ants!
Glad someone is haikuing around here. š I’m too busy trying to figure out how to knit and grow a baby at the same time, lol. š
On June 1, 2007 at 7:24 am
Sandyone says:
As I read, my kids are watching Paula Deen on the Food Network. My vote is for *at least* three syllables.
Ellen has a good point about en-TARR. Maybe it depends where in the South?
On June 5, 2007 at 10:25 am