Haiku Sticky #522

I completely forgot to post Sunday's Happy Haiga Day! and nearly forgot today's Haiku Sticky. I'd like to think that next week I'll have full use of my faculties, but I seem to have lost all sense of normality. Once again, a haiku or senryu is not sufficient, and thus I must squeeze a cherita onto a sticky.

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved.

Text:

Halloween 2019

the ghoul wears a tie
his white skin masked
by tanning lotion

and a horror film plays
out before our eyes

Haiku Sticky #521

'Tis the season! A cherita since a haiku is just too terse.

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Text:

dollar store in October

picked-over candy
and goblins share the shelves

with plastic turkeys
red-glittered elves and other
things we won't need

Happy Haiga Day!

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Image by Hokusai.

Text:

making an effort to sound
authentically pathetic

he leaves voice mail

without a doubt the cure
to his malady will include
large amounts of water

Haiku Sticky #520

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Text:

Forty-Five...
self-loathing for the person
he's forced me to become

Happy Haiga Day!

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Text:

vintage bazaar
collectors in danger
of losing their heads

Haiku Sticky #519

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Text:

paper birch woods
fall's yellow no substitute
for the sun

Happy Haiga Day!

© Diane Mayr, all rights reserved. Illustration from the Hokusai Manga.

Text:

October again
our reintroduction
to the blister

Haiku Sticky #518

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Text:

early autumn
fisherman lands a
clump of milfoil