DIVIDE AND CONQUER

I’m munching my way through my friend Muri’s National Poetry Month challenge.  If you would like to join in the fun, the challenges (involving a delectable variety of “nonce” forms) are spelled out in her post: https://murisopsis.wordpress.com/2023/03/31/looking-at-nonce-forms-for-npm/

Below are my poems for prompt #5, Troiku.  You pick a haiku and use each line as the first line of another haiku.  The base haiku I chose isn’t famous (at least, I don’t think it is) but it was the grand prize winner in the 2017 Literal Latte food poetry contest.  (Yours truly walked away with $500 for a group of three food haikus, including this one.)  To be honest, it felt kind of weird to separate what I had joined and let each line take on a life of its own.

I’m not doing the prompts in order, by the way.  Just cherry picking (as it were) from the list.

THE MOTHER SHIP

Two lone cherries hang
from a branch near the bike path
Well, not anymore

THE ORBITING RUGRATS

Two lone cherries hang
easily within my reach
Neighbor won’t miss them

From a branch near the bike path
a lone sock dangles, catching its breath
having escaped the dryer

“Well, not anymore,”
she says, setting a boundary
Her shrink would be proud