Popcorn Haiku
Buttery popcorn
Kernels stuck in my molars
Just like our lost love
Breakdancing Haiku
Poppin' and lockin'
B-Boy's legs spin in orbit
The crowd stares in awe
Gyro Haiku
Stomach in distress
I hunger for something Greek
I need a gyro
Flock
The vulture comes sooner than the dove
Longing in great circles high above
Its breath held for terms
Early birds get worms
Death arrives on wings faster than love
by Curtis
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All Curtis all the time for awhile, as promised. I'd been meaning to start posting some of the many haikus and senryus we did anyway.
This was an option we'd give the cheapskates periodically: $1 for a haiku, full poem for $5. I don't know about anyone else, but I actually found them harder to do. With a full poem, the customer goes away and leaves you alone for awhile to write it. With these, they were usually sitting right there waiting for it because come on, it's only 17 syllables and they've got places to be and bathrobe boys to ogle. My haiku almost universally sucked.
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