Write a Haiku

Today's fun activity idea, thanks to Bailey, was to write haiku. We went with the basic definition: three lines of verse, using five, then seven, then five syllables. (If you want to know more about this poetic form, check out this Wikipedia article.) To make the activity even more fun, Bailey suggested that we all pick some images from the Internet, and then all write about the ones we chose. So, we each picked three images, and then spent about five minutes writing about them. Here are the results:

Bailey's images:



Bailey's Haiku response:

This was quite a dare.

Your friends watch and cheer as you

Rush to your demise.

Wendi's Haiku response:

"Escape"
Pedal to metal.

Fleeing the concrete jungle,

If only in mind.

Jim's Haiku response:

Watch airborne rednecks

Risk death and dismemberment
On television.

Jim's Haiku response:

The natural world

Can be made twice as fetching
Using Photoshop.

Wendi's images:

[photo from the Facebook page of Wendi's friend Hinton Harrison]

Bailey's Haiku response:

That image is odd.

I am quite disturbed by it.

I hate politics.

Wendi's Haiku response:

"Politics"

Taking and preaching.

A messy cacophony,

Killing of nature.

Jim's Haiku response:

Politicians bore,
Both as people, as well as
Artistic subjects.

[photo from the Facebook page of Wendi's friend Crystal Soulfire Evolution]

Bailey's Haiku response:

How dare they do that!

One should not shine a light here.

Vampires live here!

Jim's Haiku response:

What turns Martians on?
Aliens love anal probes.
Stay out of the woods.

[photo from the Facebook page of Wendi's friend Oliver Foli]

Bailey's Haiku response:

I can't see your skirt.
Is that why you hung yourself?

Because you lost it.

The chair was here to

Stop you from hitting the ground.

What was the board for?

Wendi's Haiku response:

"Swinging from a Rope"

As the platform falls,

I admire my sense of style:

I give good dangle.

Jim's Haiku response:

The camera still
Recording captures one girl's
Final, tragic, gaffe.

Jim's images:

Wendi's Haiku response:

"Jimi"

Soulful connection.

I can make your spirit soar;

Feel my vibration.

Jim's Haiku response:

South-pawed pinoeer,
Sixties' leading shepherd of
Psychedelia.

[photo by E.J. Bellocq, 1873-1949, who photographed many women in the red light district of New Orleans in the early 1900s]

Wendi's Haiku response:

"Drink to Another John"

Working it early,

I'm waiting as you arrive,

Then it's bottoms up.

Jim's Haiku response:

You must be thirsty...
One can only imagine,
Toasting vertigo.

Bailey's Haiku response:

That's it, Sir Outlet!

My sharp knife will kill you now!

You've shocked me enough!

My papa told me

Not to stick things in outlets.

Will I prove him wring?

Jim's Haiku response:

This boy will soon learn
What killed the household tabby:
Curiosity!

Thanks, Bailey, for your "What Should I Do?" suggestion! If anyone else would like to add a fun suggestion for something that can be done in under an hour, with minimal to no expense, please share your idea with us! (Just remember to please keep suggestions no more than PG-13 level or so!) If you find yourself having fun doing one of the suggestions posted here on "What Should I Do," we'd love to see a photo of, and hear about, your fun time!