Moments

 Moments

(Micropoems)

earrings and lipstick

in solitary lockdown –

for my own delight

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rushing wind 

blows harder – relieving

the days’ sameness

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after poohing

little cat runs up and down 

celebrating

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no, yowling kitty,

I can’t stop your tummy-ache —

pooh for yourself

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she leaps lightly

to the highest shelf —

guardian cat

Apologies if you've already seen these individually on Instagram and/or facebook. Here is their context:

Lesson 3 in Write Like Issa by David Lanoue is about comic haiku, the humour residing in down-to-earth images which might not usually be considered fit subjects for poetry, such as bodily functions.  He says , 'A successful comic haiku in the style of Issa should provoke, in a breath, both laughter and thought.' 

The above, written while I was reading this chapter, were responses to whatever was happening in the moment. Though hopefully earthy and unpretentious, they aren't particularly funny – some not at all. However, the examples Lanoue cites are of gentle humour rather than side-splitting. He further says that such haiku reveal 'ironies and absurdities in ordinary life', so perhaps in that way I come close.

Sharing with Poets and Storytellers United at Writers' Pantry #87.