lion around
in lilac-scented sunshine,
a yellow mellow
Copyright 2018 Brenda Davis Harsham
Notes: I’m mostly over my virus, and still churning away at a major novel revision. So I’m in the mood to break some haiku rules. 🙂 Who says haiku can’t have puns or rhymes? Happy Poetry Friday, and thanks to Rebecca Herzog at Sloth Reads for hosting on this cool, sunny spring day. Have fun this weekend!
58 thoughts on “Lion Around”
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Friendly Fairy Tales 
I’ll see your pun and raise you one!
garden lion
pooh-poohs the visiting
bird’s gift
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LOL I did notice the bird had passed some luck on to my cat’s meow. 🙂 Thanks for your pun!
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Love that photo! It reminds me of the poem I wrote for you about Narnia, only now the sun is breaking through!
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That is a wonderful poem. Looking forward to the summer swap this year, too.
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Hi dear Brenda.
Hope the flu has done the skidoo.
And word wizardry to you in your revisiting.
This haiku is so YOU!
Luv it + the strong image.
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revising…. not revisiting
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Thanks, Jan. Holding on to my mellow. 🙂
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I love it! me-wow!
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LOL
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Groovy scenery. 😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀😎🥀
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Thanks. My neighbors work hard on their gardens, and I benefit. 🙂
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Glad you are feeling better! You aren’t “lion” it’s fun to break the rules! Your poem is a perfect example!
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Thanks, Kiesha. Yes, my life needed a bit of comic relief, and i was glad to seize the moment. 🙂
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Yes! Rules are made to be broken! 🙂
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I’m much more of a rule-breaker when I’m sick. 🙂
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I love teh haiku,pun and all. It’s perfect. 🙂 Wishing you speedy recovery, Brenda. 🙂
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Thanks!
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So sorry you are still fighting the nasty virus. Puns are so much fun and English offers so many opportunities with multiple meaning words and homophones (or homonyms as some prefer). I really like your “lilac-scented sunshine.”
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Thanks, Alice. English is a fun language for new words and puns. I hear Spanish is playful also.
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Thanks for the smile today. Love your lion pun. 🙂 Glad you’re feeling better. Take care.
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I wish I could just nap. 🙂
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What a fun poem! Poets are the best for breaking the rules! I’m glad you are feeling better. Good luck with your novel revisions!
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Thanks, Kay!
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Brenda, I am so sorry that you are ill from a lingering virus. That puts a damper on springtime. Your lion around haiku is just charming and fun to read. I am trying to remember when we had sunshine. Gray days seem to be a pattern on Long Island.
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It’s gray here this morning, but yesterday was lovely. I have hopes the sun will burn off the gray here by midday.
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
I’D SAY HE’S A DANDI-LION, BUT THOSE MELLOW YELLOW FLOWERS ARE OF SOME OTHER TYPE! 🙂
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Yes, those are not lilacs, but my yard is lilac-scented, nonetheless.
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i HEAR YA—and smell them all around here–both white and purple lilacs.
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I have pink ones, too. 🙂
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Not sure I’ve seen those too often. Do they smell any different?
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Not that I’ve noticed. They are pretty. Perhaps not as hardy as the purple, as they are still rather small, with fewer blooms.
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I’ll have to look along the highways and byways—! Thanks for the introduction to them! 🙂
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I didn’t know you were still fighting that awful virus, Brenda. Hope it’s gone, gone fast! I love the picture and the haiku, but “lion around” is the best! Happy writing!
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Thanks, Linda. It’s not the most original pun, but it fit my photo nicely. 🙂
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‘lilac-scented sunshine’ is perfect )
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Thanks. That broke another rule — simple language without poetic techniques. So many rules. Just waiting for me to break them. LOL
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I like your rule-breaking Haiku 🙂
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Thanks, Kimberly. It was very freeing.
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So glad you’re feeling better!
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Thanks!
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I don’t think there are any rules. I’m glad you’re feeling better.
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Don’t be too sure. There are as many haiku rules as there are haiku writers, I sometimes think. LOL
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Then you can have your own.
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Good point! 🙂
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Very nice! Glad you’re feeling better.
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Thanks!
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Purr-fect haiku love the humor, rules or no rules. Thanks for spreading more sunshine around Brenda–especially “lilac-scented” how delicious! Glad you are feeling better–hope your muse continues to call in all different genres, Cheers!
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I have lilacs on three sides of my house, much to the dismay of my sinuses, but I love them. Thanks for stopping by!
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I’m sorry they bother your sinuses, I love them too and have one bush I’m my backyard that will be blooming soon. Always a pleasure to visit your poetry and images, loved the 🐱 image!
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I planted some from pots and moved a baby from elsewhere. It’s taken years, but they are all blooming and healthy.
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I didn’t know you were still sick. I’m glad you’re almost better. Loved the pun. 🙂
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Thanks, Gigi. We poets can’t take ourselves too seriously. 😉
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Yes, humor and laughter is so good for the body and soul, isn’t it?
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True! 🙂
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Hi Brenda, While in a writing group with a clever person touting as MFA from a prestigious NY college, I learned that Haiku a Japanes form can indeed be written with shorter lines because it is more like the breath sound of the Japanese. Mellow on.
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Are you saying I’m NOT a rule-breaker? LOL How disappointing for me. Haiku is fascinating. It’s so small yet it stretches to fit so many different rules, attitudes and ideas.
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Love the pun in your haiku! Puns are always appropriate. 🙂 Have a great weekend.
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Thanks! You, too.
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