Tuesday poem: Is it a haiku?
July 20, 2015
winter strawberries
nipples in snow
limacine dreams
P.S. Cottier
I was tossing up whether to have an image of a slug or a strawberry. Looks like I opted for perky and nice with this Deborah Griscom Passmore painting of a type of strawberry called Parker Earle. Planted in the glorious field we call Public Domain.
Don’t think about that wee poem too much, or rather unpleasant images may occur. By the way, there is no shame in having to look up the word ‘limacine’, which is not a kind of expensive car. I trolled around for ages before I found ‘as ovine is to sheep, X is to slug’. And the word is perfect, I think.
Being a poet is a tough job, but someone has to do it.
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PS Cottier 
Ha! An unexpected, amusing, and rather disconcerting little poem. Wonderful! And yes, I had to look up limacine. The perfect word for the job.
Thanks Michele. I am interested in slugs, but from a distance.
I think you could call this a penku. Thanks for the new word. Not sure strawberries will ever look the same tho.:-)
Thanks Helen; that cheered me up from the depths of hideous flu.
Some interesting imagery 😀 I’d labelled it a Senryu based on the reference to nipples. 😀
I must do a senryu about multiple body parts…like CSI, but vaguely poetic.
Thanks Sean…and you’re rapidly becoming expert on Japanese derived forms.
Senryu can be hard to pick, depends more on content /tone than form. Even experts can disagree 🙂
You *are* Mr Miyagi.