A few months ago one of the site-related projects I was working on was revising the
Tall-Tale Creature Gallery. Before I got totally sidetracked by having to focus on my next book, I managed to add quite a few new creatures to it. I also added a feature allowing people to post haiku about the creatures, thus returning to the theme of hoax haiku first seen here
two years ago.
I didn't expect to get many haiku contributions. After all, I hadn't told anyone that I had updated the gallery, and it usually only gets a few visitors. But to my surprise people have found it and have been posting haiku. So I wanted to give a heads up about it here on the front page in case anyone else feels like trying their hand at poetry. Here are a few examples of contributions so far:
The Tree Squeak
Tree hugging tree squeek
why do you squeek so loudly
hush I cannot think.
The Haggis
Shy, furry haggis
lover of the highland glens
stay safe in your den
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
Eight armed octopus
Swinging through the trees above
what on earth was that?
Eventually I want to integrate hoax haiku throughout more of the galleries, but that will have to wait until I have more time. Though I definitely plan to add it as a feature to the
Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes before next April 1, so if anyone wants to start posting haiku in the comments there, feel free to do so. A few of the hoaxes in the 'Hoaxes Throughout History' Gallery also have haiku in the sidebar:
The Shroud of Turin,
Pope Joan,
The Feejee Mermaid,
Cardiff Giant,
Piltdown Man,
Cottingley Fairies,
Loch Ness Monster,
War of the Worlds, and
Bigfoot.
Comments
Cousin to gentle Bigfoot
Be my smelly friend
Terrifying the neighbors
dryland piranha
Sleek beast of the plains
Shimmy that antenna head
Transmit radar love
sucks the goat's blood from the corpse
like drinking liquor
Meet my pet chupacabra,
Abracadabra.
snowman roadkill: We can make
Yeti spaghetti.
is hunting brontosauri
with the Missing Link.
Bigfoot to lunch, but, alas:
"No shoes, no service."
Have big lavish weddings, but
Jackalopes elope.
"Why are you sneezing?"
"A snouter jumped up my nose,
and it won't come out."
Makes a nice waterproof coat
Smells real fishy though
Rustling leaves - wind? birds?
Fear not the eucalyptus
But what hides within
Driving down the road
What is that strange bright green light?
A glowing green deer!
Lift manhole cover
Peer into the sewer depths
Snapping jaws below.
A fibreglass bull
Ends up on a school's rooftop
How did it get there?
Look at bloodless chicken corpse
Chupacabra runs