Thursday, December 01, 2011

More Lazy Haiku

Yet another airport post. Hi! I'm en route to New York City for some fun at Lion Brand Yarn Studio. Back home Monday, at which point I promise new pictures of the lopapeysa, which has grown a sleeve.

Over on Twitter (yeah–I finally knuckled under and I'm @FranklinHabit), I posted a lazy haiku:

Hey! I am a cow.
Moo moo moo moo moo moo moo,
Moo moo moo moo moo.

There were requests for more, which makes me fear for the future of our world. But I live to serve, so here you go.

I call this one "Monotony of an Autumn Afternoon."

Knit knit knit purl knit
Knit knit purl knit knit knit purl
Knit knit knit purl sigh.

This one is called "Sudden Awareness."

Knit knit knit knit wait
What? Damn! Rip rip rip rip rip
Rip rip rip rip rip.

And finally, "Pastoral."

Baa baa baa baa. Hey!
Clip clip clip clip clip clip clip
Clip clip clip. Nude sheep.


I could do this for hours, but we're supposed to board soon. See you in Manhattan.

43 comments:

  1. Anonymous10:13 AM

    These are absolutely brilliant.

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  2. The final haiku reminds me of the brilliant animated short - "Boundin'" Have you seen it? "I used to be something, all covered with fluff, and I'd dance in the sun and I'd show off my stuff. Then they dragged me away in a manner quite rough. And they shaved me, and threw me out here in the buff."

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  3. "Sudden awareness" feels so familiar... sigh
    brilliant!

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  4. Thanks for making me Smile. XXX

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  5. Love 'em. I haven't succumbed to the lure of Twitter.... yet!

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  6. Facebook post by Frank
    Another day of mayhem
    Dolores is drunk.

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  7. I think you'll be a shoe-in when the poet laureate spot comes open next.

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  8. You are definitely not quite right. Thanks be to God. :)

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  9. This is the funniest thing I have read in ages! I needed that - thanks! HUGS (hmmm - my catcha is immess - I think the world is trying to tell me something....)

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  10. You're quite the knitter
    an artist and writer too
    now a poet so true

    Love(1000)

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  11. Haikus are easy
    but sometimes they don't make sense
    refrigerator.

    It's not original, I'm afraid, but cute.

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  12. Been following your blog for a bit. First comment here.
    Hysterical!

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  13. Anonymous2:54 PM

    Knitting hiaku, yes!
    Sheep to sweater needs many
    K2yo

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  14. And I couldn't make it to NYC for your classes after all, so I have to make do with this post.

    (Cleaning the house and even going to a party aren't going to be as much fun, I fear. Keep tweeting!)

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  15. Sandy4:29 PM

    I just did performance art to Sudden Awareness on my lunch break. There were great waving of arms and wails accompanying the chanting of the Franklin Original Haiku(tm). Ive only been working on that shawl for three weeks. Why did I decide to measure it today instead of three weeks ago when I should have done so? Why?

    What? Damn! Rip rip rip rip rip rip.

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  16. These were great! Totally captured an autumn afternoon and our sudden awareness.. damn..

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  17. Anonymous, too10:13 PM

    I'd have thought your work with antique patterns might have produced something like this:

    "Victorian Migraine" (by Anon., too)

    Antimacassar
    Pattern calls for many large
    Bobbles. WTF?

    Or is it a case of:

    Franklin at O'Hare
    Orders large margarita
    Bigger than bird bath ??

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  18. lol! Love these!!! Thank you Franklin!!!

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  19. Ha!

    Or

    Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
    Ha! Ha! Ha! Hee! Hee!

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  20. Ever wondering:
    How Abby's poncho going?
    Or is it a cape?

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  21. Your Haiku is a bit like comics without pictures, words have the action.

    WoW!

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  22. Perhaps a pattern in haiku? Then it can be added to the collection of Too Brief Mystery Patterns from the Past.

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  23. Karen S11:27 AM

    Too funny!! Loved them.

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  24. hilarious! and that's exactly how i feel about 3x1 rib.

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  25. Nothing to do with anything but this morning as I was wasting time in blogland I come across your post http://the-panopticon.blogspot.com/2009/07/much-too-cozy.html

    So! Did you ever knit a tea cosy?

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  26. I love them, hate snorting my coffee AGAIN however.

    Please do a book of them! Please please please!

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  27. Bored English teacher:
    "Let's all write haiku again!"
    (Beats preparing class...)

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  28. Sounds like an excellent sequel to "It Itches" to me!

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  29. Luckily our world as we know it has no future. More! More!

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  30. Quite possibly....no, WITHOUT A DOUBT...the best haiku I've read in decades! (I sense a new addition to your next publication!)

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  31. Anonymous10:22 PM

    Soooooooooo.....are you ever going to show up the finished pink thing for your niece????????? (she asks politely.......)

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  33. Hahahaha! You're obviously a genius.

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  34. Hahahaha! You're obviously a genius.

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  35. Love Sudden Awareness.

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