Haiku Anthology #1

Now, I'm definitely not "all in" when it comes to the whole Twitter craze. But I have jumped on the bandwagon. As you may know, Twitter allows you to post short status updates, so long as they are under 140 characters in length. Thinking that I was being original, I therefore started using Twitter as a place to write Haikus, a Japanese poetic style traditionally comprised of three lines of five, seven, and five syllables. But many others noticed Twitter and the haiku's synergy well before I did. I wrote a poem about it, anyway:

It seems like Twitter
was created for Haikus
like Eve for Adam.

Thanks to my smartphone many of these haikus were conceived while at work and delivered kicking and screaming into the world-wide-web shortly thereafter. (A good number relate to my job as well...) Each haiku can be found, in its original habitat, on my Twitter feed which you can view and access via the link on the right-hand column of this blog.  Enjoy!

I.

Puppies in the sun.
From the shade my eyes relish
July 4th hot dogs.


II.

Here's the funny thing:
I love the sun more due to
air conditioning.


III.

Coos and toothless smiles
wrapped in a diaper, pink-bowed.
Our Liana Rose.


IV.

Haikus are easy
and very overrated
but I haiku on.


V.

Working all day long
when I could be imbibing
the Wine Festival.


VI.

"Roast beef" sounds tasty,
but "ground beef" sounds muddy and
unsanitary.


VII.

Dogs crap everywhere.
But I, like the Poopsmith, scoop
in gallant silence.