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PWB Peeps; The Ballinknock Kronnikuls - Haiku! (Bless you!) [1]

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Date: 2023-01-05

Bring a beverage, grab a seat, express yourself!

A gentle reminder of how we do things: 🐱🐶🐦

Do not troll the diary. If you hate pootie diaries, leave now. No harm, no foul.

Please do share pics of your fur kids! If you have health/behavior issues with your pets, feel free to bring it to the community.

Pooties are cats; Woozles are dogs. Birds... are birds! Peeps are people.

Whatever happens in the outer blog STAYS in the outer blog. If you’re having “issues” with another Kossack, keep it “out there.” This is a place to relax and play; please treat it accordingly.

There are some pics we never post: snakes, creepy crawlies, any and all photos that depict or encourage human cruelty toward animals. These are considered “out of bounds” and will not be tolerated. If we alert you to it, please remember that we do have phobic peeps who react strongly to them. If you keep posting banned pics...well then...the Tigress will have to take matters in hand. Or, paw.

I actually found a video of haiku poetry being read. As it turned out, they came across as very negative (I gave up Existential Angst As A Hobby in high school), so I switched directions for this part. Because, yikes!

Kayso, my own shallow understanding of haiku is that it is a moment or emotion, colorfully/succinctly expressed in three lines of five, then seven, then five, syllables — and also meant to be articulated in one breath, although the video I checked out wasn’t necessarily read that way. I have no idea if I failed utterly or managed — so let’s forge ahead and find out!

Young muscles rush by

shoving old legs to the side -

Disrespectful dog!

Nose deep in the Earth

digging, digging — she knows why

she makes her own den.

Terrier is Jaz -

digging the proclivity

that is its nature.

Hungry eyes, staring,

demanding a share of food.

Happiness after!

Fighting for control

of the prize seat next to Mom

got both evicted.

So much difference

The species are far apart.

We seek connection.

(kayso, there are several — okay, most of them — instances of “oh, gawd, don’t do THAT” as refers to the people, but ignore that, in the spirit of the Haiku.)

Paws wave in dream time

I reach out and gently squeeze.

The dream does not end.

Interesting, this

exercise, seeing others

through a measured lens.

Well, there ya go! I had fun, even if the general consensus is that I should stick to limericks — or any other form of poetry. Or maybe just prose! Meanwhile,

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