Friday, August 5, 2011

Haiku Monday: Glossing Over It

When I was 11, someone gave my parents a Flip Wilson doll.  Anyone remember Flip Wilson or his doll?  One side of the doll was Flip Wilson as a regular guy, and the other side was his alter ego, sassy-talkin' Geraldine.  When you pulled the string, you got Geraldine's let-it-all-hangout -pronouncement "What you see is what you get!"



This week's haiku Monday theme is VENEER.

Please submit your 5-7-5 haiku here by midnight Monday.  Visuals are delightful, but not counted.  If you submit more than one, please indicate your entry.

Good luck!

15 comments:

  1. I recall. "The Devil Made Me Do It."

    fertile theme---heh

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  2. Yes, thats it! The doll said that, too!

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  4. Starred in Pippin, right?
    Seventies’ song-and-dance man?
    Ah, dyslexia.

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  5. Csar...I am speechless at the complexity of your haiku! Vereen for Veneer.

    A w e s o m e.

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  6. Review Revised

    Peeling back the mask.
    Standing athwart history
    yelling Stop. And LOOK!

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  7. Fugitive pigments
    suspended in glaze; Vermeer,
    Master of surface

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  8. @Fleur: Thanks for the laugh. It's post-Rumpus Monday. Laughs are hard to come by.

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  9. Oooooo, Czar and Chickory are in it to win it!

    I'm up:

    Miss Represent

    California girls?
    Not even their hair is real.
    Surface is substance.

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  10. nice title, Moi. and you gotta nod to season cause its always summer in cali

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  11. Old brick buildings sit
    on a weathered old main street;
    past prosperity

    (P.S. Love LOVE the FLip Wilson doll. I remember that show very well.)

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  12. Oh, very good! It's heating up!

    @Csar: as I said on Facebook after reading a collection of Rumpus "nuggets" from Steve, Skippy, and Tin: The Rumpus is like a Taylor Swift concert; to appreciate it fully, you have to be there. And then you thank God that you weren't.


    Disclaimer: I like Taylor Swift, but I couldn't take all those pre-tweens.

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  13. Yikes! fergit it.

    These be too good an' impossible to top.


    I think a narrow theme expands the creativity--gives structure to the mind.

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  14. Evening Fleur,

    Valiant flight cut short
    Iran's gift steals night cover
    Oden welcomes

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  15. Dr. Orifice

    Two thousand per tooth!
    That first impression greeting?
    Pricey. Not priceless.

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