Before the spring equinox;
the cold will last
only a night or two more
(Rotsu)
Hot chocolate and bread
Curling up in the bed!
(Arushi)
This Haiku is written for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai for Tan Renga Challenge!
A Day In Ocracoke!
Once upon a time behind the picket fence white,
between the overgrown grass and the red roses wild,
a line of clothes drying in a breeze from the west,
Stood a pretty red house, worn out and patched!
In this old house lived Tommy, his sister Maddy,
And chubby little toothless golden haired Teddy...
Their Wampus Cat Buringhum would purr and mew,
Feeding on the Russian Rat and tumbling the stew!
The charming plump mother would run around shouting,
Mommucked by the cat, baton in hand and cursing...
Fat Burhingam knew the Token of angry love,
As he clumsily climbed the top shelf above...
Tommy searched, as they played meehonkey,
Maddy hid in the cupboard and curled up and slept,
Until noon she became quamish, came out and wept!
For Tommy was searching no more for her,
The boys playing in the lighthouse without a care...
Tear stricken she waited for her Papa to come back,
And tell her annoying tale sitting snuggly in his lap.
Papa came at sunset from the Silver Lake after fishing,
A flounder for dinner and victoriously beaming...
The mother kissed him, Maddy ran to hug her Papa,
She climbed his arms as the dirty boys scampered around...
The dinner was cheery, Burhingham forgiven,
Fresh soup and flounder and hot bread in the oven!
The happy O'cockers lived in quite Ocracoke,
Away from the filthy city and unpleasant smoke!
This poem is written for Artistic Interpretations at Imaginary Garden With Real Toads for life on an Island of Ocracoke!
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