DSL Issues and Ice Cream Haiku
Posted on May 5, 2006 Posted by John Scalzi 38 Comments
I’m having connection issues today (I’m typing this by using my cell phone as a modem. Hey! This cell phone thingie does seem to come in handy). I’ll be back when they get resolved. In the meantime, here’s an open thread for you. I suggest you fill it with Haiku about your favorite ice cream flavor.
Cherry Garcia
Jerry had diabetes
That’s some irony.
See? Easy. Your turn.
Ice Cream and Haikus?
I can’t think of anything;
Brain freeze really sucks.
Rocky Road tastes fine.
Like snow on sugar gravel
Chocolate cover’d.
K
(To scan properly, pronounce chocolate so that it has 3 syllables.)
Oh, Chubby Hubby
So salty sweet, but shamef’ly
Your name could be mine.
Don’t real haikus have to mention one of the four seasons? I thought there was a different name for a seasonless haiku.
Harry, according to Wikipedia, a haiku should contain a word or phrase “descriptive of the season in which the [poem] is set.” So, falling leaves, snow, heat, sun, &c.
K
Harry: Yes — there should be some seasonal reference for it to be a true haiku. I think most people informally recogize a 5-7-5 poem as a haiku, however.
(yes, I’m still having DSL problems. I’m on the phone with the tech people as we speak.)
I ate way too much.
Stomach distended and sore.
Seppuku sounds good.
My gram said “sher-bet”
My dear wife says it “sher-bert”
My son says “ice cream”
Coffee in winter,
Frozen yet sweet bitterness,
Gives highs to my lows.
Soft Tin-roof Sundae
cutting through my enamel
sweet toxic buzzsaw
Ice Cream Haiku, what?
I like Vanilla Ice Cream
Does that mean something?
Vibrant greens emergeChinatown Ice Cream Fact’ryGreen Tea Ice Cream mmmmmLychee and Red BeanChinatown Ice Cream Fact’ry
Cool treat beats the heat
Durian GingerChinatown Ice Cream Fact’ryChoc’late exotic?
Any guesses my favorite place to go for a scoop?
I scream you scream weall scream for Chinatown IceCream Fact’ry ice cream
Chocolate Peanut Butter
It’s been a while since
I’ve been to Baskin Robbins
young squirrels scamper
cheeks suggestive with nuts, but
i don’t like ice cream
chunky monkey ice cream treat
made from real monkey?
the world may never know
A
Chunky Monkey
makes
for a sugar-rich meal,
and
instant napping…
why on earth ice cream?
when Kopps transforms eggs and cream
to frozen custard
Phish Food makes me gulp
Brainless mouthfuls eagerly
Look! There’s a castle!
Some days a scoop of
Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla
Makes Texas worthwhile.
Yo, Tin Roof ice cream;
While your name is metallic
You taste like da bomb
Okay, since there’s supposed to be a seasonal reference in a haiku:
Blue Bell Tin Roof — yum!
But only there at certain
Times of the year. Damn.
“cheeks suggestive with nuts”
Best. Haiku. Innuendo. Evar.
Damn. You’ve got me going…
Coffee in springtime
Cool breeze with pale flowers
Starbucks in sweet cream
Coffee in summer
Drips off cone onto fingers
And floor for dog treat.
Coffee in autumn
Brings the chills somewhat sooner.
It’s okay by me.
Shit! I can’t decide.
One each: Peanut Butter, Mint
Chip, Goo-Goo Cluster.
I love chocolate chip
But Ice Cream does Not love me
Makes me all bloated
A freezer case pint
calls my name as I walk by
I have but two hands!
I like spumoni–
chocolate, cherries, and nuts.
Say, “That’s Italian!”
Ghirardelli chips
with boysenberry sorbet
leave few syllables.
And that’s all I’m saying on that: I used to be a short poem addict. Timprov and I wrote several gross of limericks in a fortnight in college, and haiku were nearly as bad shortly thereafter. So I am entirely on the wagon for limericks, and I keep strict limitations on my haiku output.
This will be tricky for those of us whose favorite ice cream flavor is more than 17 syllables long!
Fortunately, I do not think many of us are in this category.
Slowly spinning cone:
sun racing with the eater
for butter pecan
Peanut Butter Crunch
Soft serve is not ice cream
Dairy Queen still wins
bad bowel habits
why must icecream be pleasant
lactose taunts me
A strawberry swirl,
Spoon under the summer sun.
Mouth glows with sweet cold.
mint cookies and cream
but I really wish they made
just plain mint ice cream
They do, Corina!
I had me some just last night
Made from Andes mints.
Velvet Dip soft serve,
only available in
summer: what a treat.
flavor explosion
gelato ruined me for
American treats
handmade is better
but from a big grocery store
Godiva will do
oops, meant to fix that to:
handmade is better
but from a grocery store
Godiva will do
darn groce-ry/groc-er-y
i love the ice cream!
icecream is very awesome!
ever-one loves it
oh how delightful
angielina flavored cream
midnight snack, yummy!!!!