the smedley log - suburban scrawl

feline welcome

pitter-patter feet
come to greet a waking me
with sandpaper tongue.

a cat’s tongue is a great exfoliant

Your haikus are great. I’ve tried but I cannot seem to get my mind make 17 syllable sentences. I suffer from diarrhea of the mouth.

Meows surround me,
too early in the morning.
Time to feed the cats!

W – I’m none too good at it content-wise, but have been finding that reaading some of these makes a short enough thought pop into my head that can be massaged into 12 syllables. The final 5 is just playing.

My struggle with validity is that I worry “if I have the right to” in that I feel like maybe it’s the “crossword puzzle” part of the brain I am using instead of the “art” side, but I figure it can’t hurt to try and maybe more of the “art” side will pop in later…

all cats are evil.
they rise from the pits of hell
to sleep in your lap.

wildflower – thanks for the compliment. part of this blog’s point was for me to exercise more restraint in my online journaling. it was difficult at first, but i think i’m getting used to it.

on a more somber note, tough eagles game today. hope you’re doing okay. should be a better result next week.

Ellen – to borrow a term from the time spent hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, the operative word is “pithy”. I can’t claim to be an expert on haiku (far from it, I’m sure), but my approach is to try to just state something simple – or to oversimplify a complex notion until it fits…

nice haiku, btw.

D.B. – oh, I missed you there. you must have posted that while I was entering my comment. another nice haiku, and so essentially true.

Cats are not evil
Merely misunderstood by
ones who don’t dare try

Spoken like a true dark overlord Ellen!

I bow to your wisdom on this one…

Can’t deny the dark overlord part – after all I also used to teach Math for 8 years…..been called worse, I suppose