Carpmas Haikus 2007
When I first “invented” Carpmas, I sent an email to many of my friends asking them to write haikus with either “Carp” or “Carp & Christmas” as the theme. I was thrilled with the response.
I emailed the collection back to the contributing poet-friends. Pal Meaghan liked the list so much she sent it along to her mother, a writer, living in our hometown of Creston BC. Meaghan’s Mommy then emailed the collection on to her friend who was an Elementary School teacher who used them to teach her grade six poetry unit that year.
Who knows… she may use it still.
Here they are:
Kirsten, writer/editor:
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Fat carps loll about.
Lazy from urban fish food.
Life’s free smorgasbord
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Michelle, office administrator
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A white sound shivers.
Cascading water soars,
A carp into the light.
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Meaghan, biomedical communications
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Chubby common carp
Whale of the watery reeds
grey black orange red white
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Derek, realtor
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Crap comes out my bum,
The praying mantis chortles,
He/She is no Carp
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Miranda, actress:
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Golden finny friend
Swims up into dragon fire
With the blooming Spring
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Tom, Graphic Designer:
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golden and dancing
in the ovens warm embrace –
festive for dinner
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oh to be wanted
and not swimming aimlessly –
You say there’s a catch?
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fish out of water.
always a funny story –
unless you’re a fish
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a carp in my tub
there’s nowhere to swim to now –
soon he will feed eight
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Jody, RMH Director
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fresh carp for us all
on the christmas table hot
yummy fish delight
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carp swimming upstream
swiftly softly smoothly keen
to get home to eat
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Charmaine, Retailer
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calories abound
a bone is stuck in my craw
“Pass the potatoes”
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