Who doesn’t love a good olive? I am particularly fond of uncured, fresh olives and the strangely bright green color they bring to the plate, but I won’t turn down olives with pimentos, jalapeno-stuffed or even feta-stuffed olives, greek olives… mmmm, olives!
Where there’s an olive
there can be a martini
waiting for some ice.Olives and hummus
a dinner waiting for me
please pass the pita.Olives black and greek
tart, uncured and olives bright
stuffed with tasty treats
Mid-April rain and green
Hinting by the roadway’s edge
Greens of trees waiting.
Above the valley, grey and winter-tired,
skipping across the worn out landscape,
the sun reaches out, stretching from the west,
leaning over the lavender pools
cupping in his golden hand this rounded crest
a cheek glowing with love.
The blue hills waiting and waiting for spring
and this hill, lucky and favored,
spills light back to the sun
leaning towards the embrace
wishing the beloved would stay the night.
Listen up, you people. Tomorrow is International Haiku Day and by gum I’d like to see some haiku in my feed. Any topic (mom-friendly please!) If you need some help, well, you’ll figure out the whole 5-7-5, 17 syllable thing. I’m not a stickler for classic season, time, place stuff.
Write! Write! Write!
One hint, the funny little turn of phrase that you hear often turns out to be five or seven syllables and gets you started. Or, second free hint, looking up something on wikipedia? Write a haiku about it #haikupedia!
If I were to summarize in one sentence the single most important principle I have learned in the field of interpersonal relations, it would be this: Seek first to understand, then to be understood. This principle is the key to effective interpersonal communication.
