This is my contribution for Ronovan’s weekly haiku challenge. Check it out here: https://ronovanwrites.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/ronovanwrites-weekly-haiku-poetry-prompt-challenge-62-start-hot/
Starts with a sizzle
Residual heat sustains;
Slow cool to zero
Fo’ shizzle
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Great haiku. I thought we were going to have a continuation of the heat here, but the weatherman was right. It is raining now and the temperatures are cooler. Yeah.
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Thanks Pat. Summer can’t last forever…
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This is how I boil my eggs, or one way. Makes them perfect and saves electricity or gas, depending on what kind of stove top you have.
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Thanks Ronovan… and there I was thinking that this was about a relationship 🙂
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I really like my eggs. 😉
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🙂
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Spoken like a chef! Good one Al. I can think of a couple of dishes made like this. 😛
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Thanks Vashti… interesting how you and Ronovan both thought this was about cooking! 🙂
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Oooh! Really? Now I need to know the true meaning behind this haiku. I’m very intrigued. 😀
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I’m in two minds whether to say what was on my mind, as explanations can fall flat… So please feel free to not read on! What I had in mind was a relationship founded on lust and passion, that never developed the friendship to sustain it beyond the physical urge, but the two never parted either, continuing a loveless dance, enmity building, literally not caring about the other partner. I wonder how many older couples who married in a generation when divorce was rare would recognise this situation…
But it’s haiku, so any interpretation is good 🙂
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Wow, I can’t imagine staying in a loveless marriage for years and years. It’s probably like torture. With your story in mind I reread the haiku and I totally get it. 😉
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I remember reading magazine articles on it last year – it was about “living apart, together”. I know some people who it applies to, to some degree… like you, I couldn’t imagine it for myself
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