Showing posts with label valentine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label valentine. Show all posts

Saturday, February 4, 2017

February 4: Love and War

Almost Valentine's--
each night Venus grows brighter,
Mars diminishes.

Monday, February 15, 2016

February 15: Ripped from the headlines

The Seattle Aquarium has made the public display of mating octopuses a very popular annual Valentine's Day event. This year, however, the spectacle was cancelled because they couldn't find a female big enough to hold her own against their 70-lb. male octopus, Kong. Giant Pacific Octopuses are normally kept separated in aquariums (and live predominately solitary lives in the wild), because they not uncommonly kill and eat one another. Clearly the aquarium did not want to promote an event in which the hapless female might experience love and death in such short order, in full view of the soft-hearted public.
 
Today's haiku was an actual online headline: found poetry at its best.
 
Octopus mating event
cancelled due to
cannibalism concerns.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

February 14: Puzzle Zen

Valentine's Day--
the puzzle takes us hours,
piece by piece we make it whole.
 
Most excellent puzzle from Liberty Puzzles (468 pieces)
 

Saturday, February 14, 2015

February 14: Valentine

Valentine's Day--
pair of cardinals at the feeder,
starling's wolf whistle.