Welcome to Day Sixteen of your Essential Guide to Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse. We all know the end is coming. But that’s no excuse for being a negative ninny about the whole thing. Today, for your reading pleasure, as well as some survival tips, you’ll also find a little poem on reasons to be positive about the end of the world… although you’ll have to wait for the next post for that 🙂
So, here continues your short guide to surviving the rise of the undead, covering you all the way from A to Z… It’s … Haiku of the Dead!
Haiku poetry
Provides you survival tips
And food for the soul
Panic on the streets.
Stay calm. Ice flows through your veins;
Clarity your mind
Find somewhere rural,
Avoid large populations –
Safe in small numbers
Underestimate
Power of positive thoughts
At your own peril
Keep an eye out the next post… Reasons to be Cheerful: One, Two, Zombie…
“You wrote this as part of a month-long challenge? What?!”
Throughout April, I will be joining the A to Z Challenge, posting six days a week to cover each letter of the alphabet… even that annoying “X”… For my theme, I have gone down the well-trodden, stereotypical, bit-of-a-cliché -really path of zombie survival tips… in haiku.
With tongue firmly in cheek, I hope you will join me for the month, and beyond 🙂
There are hundreds of blogs participating – over 1700. I will be doing my best to check out as many of these as possible. You can too via this link: http://www.a-to-zchallenge.com/p/a-z-challenge-sign-up-list-2016.html
Positively taking your prompts here… I don’t need to be mixing it up with no Zombies…
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P’raps I need to put them all into a pdf?
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I am positively panicking now!!! 🙂
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That’s not really the type of positivity I was going for! 🙂
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Well, I like to be different sometimes! 🙂
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Stand out from the crowd – absolutely!
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But, but… wouldn’t that be dangerous, during a Zombie apocalypse, the standing out, I mean?
😉
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As most of the crowd will get eaten by zombies, a little “standing out” can be a good thing 😉
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I should be fine then 😉
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I’m immune – poets and story-tellers and all that.
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Poetic immunity… stronger than any medicine!
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Definitely food for the soul…
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Thank you… I do try and make it more than just a bit of silly humour!
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I’m thinking Pulitzer…
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At least!
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🙂
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Plan poorly and prepare to perish! 😀
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Precisely!
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I’m writing these down in my ‘Zombie Apocalypse Prep Book’. 😉
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Ha ha! That’s what these will become at the end of the month 🙂
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Ah, I should have read this “dark side” one first so the bright side half would cheer me up….
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(Read part 2 again now then 🙂 )
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*smacks forehead* But of course! 😀
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It’s really all in the first stanza, isn’t it?
Haiku poetry
Provides you survival tips
And food for the soul
So much food for the soul, and laughter for the heart, and I can’t thank you enough for it.
🙂
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Oh, I also wanted to say I’m impressed. 7 words in a line? That’s a feat!
And I simply LOVE your last haiku. Positive thinking. I need to keep remembering! 🙂
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Sometimes the shortest words say it all!
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This is fun stuff! Thanks for visiting my blog so I could track you back to here. Love the theme; I’ll be back to see what else you have in store!
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Thanks Jonathan. Glad you like it! 🙂
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I am positively behind on these practical tips. Reading onward…
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