Ah-choo haiku...

UPDATE: Vote for your favorite haiku before midnight Thursday.

The topic for the weekly Haiku Challenge at Sparrow's is:

********************* HEALTH *******************

Submit your entry by 10 pm tonight and remember,
the winner picks a name from AnySoldier to receive
a deluxe care package.





on a separate note, go here let's have a cocktail for
some wonderful giving ideas.
h/t Mark.

VOTING UPDATE: Haiku dreams...

Once again the lovely Sparrow has come up with
an enchanting topic for this week's Haiku Challenge:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DREAMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's time to VOTE for your favorite by 11 pm Thursday.

~~~~~

dreams disappear when
morning breaks, leaving me to
wonder what's hiding.

in dreams we see what
may not be or re-live what
once was. Is it truth?

mem'ries, hopes and fears
are mingled in the mist of
sleep. Wake me softly.

dream a little dream.
does it follow in daylight
or sleep with the moon?

UPDATE: Memories in haiku...

The topic for Sparrow's weekly Haiku Challenge:

____________ GRANDFATHER____________

UPDATE: Please VOTE for your favorite by 11 pm Thursday.

As always, the prize is a deluxe care package, sent in
the winner's name, to one of our military serving in
harm's way. You can choose from the list at AnySoldier.com
or submit the name of someone you know.
____
One was gone before
my time. The other lives in
my mem'ry always.

He was a drinker
and a bricklayer. Played bass
in a Polka band.

Landed on Ellis
Island a year before his
family could follow.

I heard many tales
of his drunken temper. All
I saw was gentle.

He smiled while I fed
him mashed potatoes and peas
in the hospital.

UPDATE: Fall-ing in Haiku with you...

This week's topic for the Haiku Challenge
at All Atwitter, hosted by the lovely Sparrow, is:

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ FALL ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

I must have blinked and missed summer this year.

UPDATE: VOTING is until 11 pm Thursday.

UPDATE: Growing Old haiku...

I'm not sure I want to participate in the haiku challenge
at Sparrow's this week. Do you know what she picked
for a topic?
Really, do you know? 'cause I forgot.
Lemme go look again. Oh, yeah...

--------------------- GROWING OLD ----------------------

UPDATE: Wake up and go vote before 11 pm, please.


not old. please. not old.
mature and more sensual.
wise and young at heart.
----
Gracefully aging.
Loving life more than ever.
Relaxed in myself.

UPDATE: Salt water Haiku...

The topic for this week's Haiku Challenge is:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OCEAN ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

UPDATE: VOTE VOTE VOTE before 11 pm, please.

Remember, Sparrow sends a Deluxe Care Package
in the winner's name to a member of our military
serving in harm's way.
~~~

How many critters
swim in the ocean and where
do all of them pee?
~
buoyed by the waves
meditation therapy
for soul and body.
~
condense something so
enormous down to a mere
three-line haiku? tears.

Good-night, sweetheart haiku...

It's that time again. Don your thinking cap.

The topic for Sparrow's Haiku Challenge is:

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz_SLEEP_zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

UPDATE: Go back to VOTE for your favorite before 11pm Thursday.

...
slow down. slow motion.
cloud pillows under my head.
just about midnight.
...
on those nights when it
evades me, I woo it like
an old lover gone.
...
Sandman, sprinkle sweet
dreams in my drowsy eyes. Make
my slumber divine.
...
Waketh me not if
thou knowest what is goodest
for thou, alarm clock!

I can't think of a good title for this post...

The topic for this week's Haiku Challenge at Sparrow's is:

.......................... PRESSURE! ...................


VOTING UPDATE: Vote before 11 pm Thursday.

Remember that the winner gets to choose a
member of our military, serving in harm's way,
to receive a Deluxe Care Package from AnySoldier.
(Courtesy of the lovely Sparrow.)

...Final exam day... Another lay-off...
Sexual tension...Tea kettle whistles...
Wet, crying babies... Heartbreak repeated...
Gymnasium grunts... Ambulance sirens...
Insufficient funds... Needle on empty...
Almost orgasm... Some good, some not so...
Steam under the hood.

Help yourself to a five-syllable line or two.
My brain is refusing to count to seven today.

8:43 pm, Finally...

Dreams untended, hearts
unmended, quiver to come
to life. Realize.

UPDATE: Commit yourself...

The topic for Sparrow's Haiku Challenge at All Atwitter:

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~COMMITMENT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

UPDATE: You have until 11 PM Thursday to VOTE for your favorite.

There will be no fail.
Un-do. Re-do. Carry on.
Life is to be lived.

*UPDATE* Marriage...

more a state of mind
and commitment from the soul
than a legal bond.

* You have until 11 PM FRIDAY to VOTE for your favorite haiku. *

The topic is MARRIAGE and the deadline has been extended to
Thursday 9 AM because she is out of town for a few days.

Still, hurry on over there and get your entry in the contest.

*UPDATE* Our time is now...

The topic for the the Haiku Challenge at All Atwitter is:

************************ TIME ***********************

TIME TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE BY 10 pm TONIGHT.


I don't want to know
how much might remain. I live
and love each breath now.

*

Time is on no one's
side. It exists whether you
do or not. Enjoy!