Welcome...

Welcome to the my blog. This is my first attempt. I'm thinking of using this as a replacement for my stale old Web site, so we'll see how it goes. I need to learn more about blogs, and what better way to learn than to do, right?

I'm going to put in the haiku competition from the other day and see if we can get a discussion going about it.

-- Stacy

Literary Stadium

On March 20, Cara graced us with a haiku, to which Lisa responded. I issued a challenge and the rest, well, read below....

The opening gambit, from Cara ...

Flurries and bright sun
A crazy Monday commute
It's Spring in New York

To which Lisa responded:

black cat in the sink
grey cat horks up some brown slime
one more damn Monday

and Battle Haiku was born....

I asked for more, and Cara requested ground rules....

Stacy: Sticking with the spring theme, and one of my favorite things, let's go with flowers. Or, more broadly if you have to, gardening.

On your mark, get set, GO!

Peg: Iron Poet. Today in Literary Stadium we have Iron Poet Cara and challenger Lexa. Welcome to Battle Haiku.

and the battle continues....

C:

Me and my green thumb
Trying not to kill plants - what
A load of compost!

L:

every winter
mites kill all non-succulants
very humbling

C:

Garden Sturm und Drang
What on earth made me plant the
Seeds of discontent?

L:

plants on my work desk
under artificial light
thriving - what's with that?

And then I tried to post this little event to my site on Googlepages (ugh!), and things got a little off track:

C:

Stacy's Page not found
You get what you pay for, eh?
We'll send cash to her

And then I had to go pick up Ethan, who was sick and grumpy with an ear infection.

L:

what's in Ethan's ear?
nasty flora? potatoes?
No Q-tips!, says Mom

C:

Put servers to bed
Tuck in the laser printers
Done! Sneak out early ...

L:

back to Monday theme
so little to do I clunk
no one notices

C:

One for the road:

Panda's visiting.
Now outside in the garden,
He Eats, Shoots and Leaves ;)

L:

Cheater! =]

Cara's impatient
so she fires off two haikus
before I write one

And there, my friends, ends tonight's battle of Literary Stadium. The winner? We have yet to hear from our judges....

Judges.... Discuss. Who one the competition? And, can we answer the question that Lisa posed the next day:

So if fois gras is the duct tape of Kitchen Stadium, what is the fois gras of Literary Stadium?