More haiku for March (2)

March 4 - fire

frosty windows -

someone has to rise

and light the fire

Christmas at gran's -

our neighbour lights the fire

to welcome us home

March 5 - breakfast

filling station -

all-day breakfast

coffee to go

March 6 - wildlife

from the scaffolding
a masked face peers in -
raccoon in the city

March 8 - lines

punishment


or reward for long life

-
a hundred lines

March 9 - salt

hot day's hike

 sweat-soaked T-shirt

taste of salt

promenade ensoleillée
T-shirt trempé de sueur
goût de sel

Random thoughts on -ees from the pensive pedant

I’m gradually becoming a non-pedant on grammar and spellings, but some things grate.

When did we stop doing things like retiring or attending?  Surely some who does things is an –er, not an –ee?

So you love – you are a lover.  I drive – I am a driver.  I employ – I am an employer.  

I am employed – I am an employee.

So why, if you attend a fashion show, have you suddenly become an “attendee”?

“a bottle of which was handed to each show attendee . . .”
(from Guardian 06.03.2013)

It sounds no more elegant to me than an attender – and sounds as though you’ve been attended. Why not avoid the issue and hand a bottle to everyone who attended?

Then pensioners, or people who have retired, are referred to as retirees, as though they’ve all been retired against their will. 

Is this all a plot to normalise passivity?  (Not a serious question - yet.)

More haiku for March

Two so far:

March 1 prompt gathering

family party
she wants me to help her
with Sanskrit grammar

(about which I know nothing, though I know something about cases in German and Latin!)


March 2 prompt - children's author

a traveller in time
reading Little Grey Rabbit
to grandchildren

(referring to Alison Uttley who also wrote A Traveller in Time  - a Derbyshire-based book, about the Babington plot to put Mary Queen of Scots on the English throne.)


March 3rd prompt - pressure

birthday bubbly

off flies the cork

we’re all drenched

Some links - how to haiku

Graceguts



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I'll add to these as and when

NaHaiWriMo - the house

Living room

seated

in front of the TV

she snores

assise

devant la télé

elle ronfle

I've been told I need a juxtaposition - what is she not watching? So . . .

death and destruction
on TV news loop
she snores

or:

wild west shoot out -
in front of the TV
she snores

or:

alone together
in front of the TV
snoring

Bedroom

fresh sheets

on the double bed

hers, all hers

Bathroom

subdued lighting

lavender bubble bath

and toy dinosaurs

lumière douce
mousse lavande
et dinosaures en plastique

tub on balcony
hot water, screen of trees
and constant sleet

Dining Room

candlelight

silverware and glass

TV dinner

Wardrobe

in the wardrobe

behind her summer clothes

his sandals

dans l'armoire

derrière ses robes

ses sandales à lui

Garage

in the corner

of an old drawer

a robin’s nest

dans le tiroir

d’une vielle commode

un nid de rouge-gorge

kitchen

spring sunshine

first bike ride of the year ends

time for a cuppa

soleil du printemps

promenade à vélo

grand café chez moi