Thursday, January 17, 2008

Haiku voting is open!

At All Atwitter....

Ok, I'm manly enough to not only eat quiche, but cook it too.
I can wear any color I please, and dare any man to say less of me for it.
And.... I can write Haiku if I wish to.

In fact, you can see it at Sparrows site.... and vote for mine if you wish.....
*I* voted for Jeans.... I think hers is better than mine.
Matter of taste I guess.

Topic: Work
My entry:

Teaching is not work
It is life, passed hand to hand
Touching the future



And the winner is: HollyB, with this astoundingly good entry:

Social Work. Standing
in waters of human pain
undertow takes me

8 comments:

breda said...

I voted for you yesterday.

Carteach said...

Thank you!
Be fun to win one of these.
I'm actually enjoying writing these things.... Most don't get posted.... actually, most get symbolically burned with the push of a delete button... Then their ashes buried, with a steak through them.

Speaking of steak..... I'm getting hungry for a decent meal.... have to stop on the way home and shop a bit.... Steak and mushrooms.... HMmmmmm....

breda said...

Do not torment me with your steak and mushrooms!!! I can't take it anymore!

Carteach said...

BAHAHahahaha.....

You are strong my young friend, but not as strong as the Steak with Mushrooms!
When the mushrooms are sauted just so, browned in butter and beef drippings.... and the steak is meadium rare, heat seared and carmalized.....

You cannot resist young one... give in to the steak and mushrooms!

Jean said...

Please tell me you're kidding about not saving your haikus! Sacrilege. Keep tweaking : )

Carteach said...

Jean... I do tweak...
They either work, of they don't.

I like taking pictures. "capturing images". Now in digital, long ago in 35mm and 220 formats. Film photography is not cheap, but I sold enough to pay for the hobby. A serious hobbyist I guess you might say.

Along that trip, I got some advice from a pretty decent commercial photographer.

He said "The key to building a good portfolio is to edit ruthlessly"

When I write, it just seems to flow out. Yes, I can sit on it and tweak later, if the foundation is good. Sometimes, the basics are rotten and the only 'tweaks' that work are matches and gasoline.

Still, I learn from each, and good writers like you.

breda said...

honestly, your food porn is getting a little...obscene. It almost makes me blush.

I'm eating gumbo. So THERE. =P

phlegmfatale said...

Excellent haiku composition-- both of you.