Peg Kerr's Journal

Went to elisem's haiku earring party last night. Elise had dozens and dozens of earrings spread out on the table when the party started. What you do is you pick a pair, show them to Elise, and she gives you a title. Then you write a haiku based on that title, and then you get to keep the earrings.

I did four poems:

Fair and Perilous (dangling leaves in irridescent white)

Where her white hands touch
frost steals forth, coating every
leaf and twig with ice

The lamp of the willow (frosted clear balls, dangling from beads of willow green glass)

The willow dryad
holds up a water bubble
glowing with moonlight

Hidden Powers (flouride, sort of a smoky green, sort of oval, sort of rectangular)

Death, mixed with my tears
I hold it out to you and
bid you take a sip

Self Control (many-faceted teardrop blue glass beads)

Mermaids synchronize
their strokes, rather than rushing
to sea, arms spread wide

It was great fun. Much poetry was composed (Elise had hundreds of poems by the end of the evening, many better than mine) and I got four lovely pairs of earrings.

Cheers,
Peg