My New New Year’s Day Tradition: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

New Year's Day Black-eyed peas plus Held's bacon ends

New Year’s Black-Eyed Peas/
plus Wisconsin bacon ends: /
Merging 2 great tastes.

To Wallow Or Not: Revolutionary Blogging Haiku

If you wallow and/
dwell on all things that could go/
wrong, they prob’ly will.

I grew up in the land of ice and snow but never saw these: Ice Collars / Ice Flowers: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

Ice flowers on white crownbeard near Chickamauga National Battlefield, Jan. 2018

Move to new climates/
and you may see different and/
strange ice formations.

*For a better description of Ice Flowers, refer to Dr. James Carter, Illinois State University, http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/flowers/ this article.

Sideways Subtle Wishing: Revolutionary Blogging Haiku

How do you wish one/
you were once close to “Happy/
[fill in blank]”? Write poems.

Thinner Belles (Christmas in Dixie) : Revolutionary ConTEXTing Haiku and Song

Parka Girl on the Ice with an Ice Spud (aka Ice Chisel) -- Lake Winneconne, Dec. 2017

When Dixie’s daughter/
Comes back from Christmas up North,/
I sing “Thinner Bells”.

*Sung to the tune of “Silver Bells”
Thinner Belles!
Thinner Belles!
it’s Christmas time down in Dixie!
Not much snow!
fewer clothes!
Soon it will be Christmas Day.
In Wisconsin
they’re all bundling
trying just to keep warm
that you can’t even see what they look like.
Past Mason Dixon
they’re all fixing
to show off their form.
With no snow suits or parkas we’ll cheer!
Thinner Belles!
Thinner Belles!
it’s Christmas time down in Dixie.
They’re so cute.
No snow boots.
Soon it will be Christmas Day!