Counting Down

I'm counting down til the end of uni, it's been so busy and that's unfortunately why I've not found the time to update as much as I'd like to.

Talking of counting, I learned a new word the other day.

"Dactylonomist" - Someone who counts on their fingers.

So to take a little break from mundane essay writing, yep, you guessed it - I wrote a haiku. Here it is;

Dactylonomist /
Yes, I might be one of those /
Haikus can be hard.

Just a little tid-bit to keep my blog ticking over while I'm gone.

I'm currently writing my haikus and text messaging them to my boyfriend as a back-up but I'm thinking about buying a posh little notebook to dedicate to them.

Poetry is cool, right?

A little bit funny...

This evening I attended the comedy club at my university, The C Word Comedy Club. One of the acts read out a couple of haikus and I decided to write a few myself. Sometimes it's just nice to step away from my uni work, blog and do some tongue-in-cheek poetry to cheer yourself up.

For those of you who may not know what a haiku is; here is the Google definition:

haiku (Noun)

1. A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
2. An English imitation of this.

Of course, like any good writer I based my writing on my experiences. So here are my haikus about being a middle-aged housewife trapped in a 21 year old's body -

#1

House, why aren't you clean? / Get clean, you motherfucker, / House is still not clean.

#2

Man, can't you wash up? / Get off of the damn Xbox / Make the bloody bed.

#3

Why am I not thin? / Food, you are too good to me. / Wobble, wobble, wob.

Now, I am eager for some reader participation, so how about you leave me a haiku about yourself?