Double Cinquain

Sadness

Burning, churning

Keeping the flames alive

Love lost to ravages of time

Lonely

Alone

My heart has broken in slivers

That pierce my heart with pain

Missing your touch

Sadness

New Book List Located!

All excited – got a new book list to read through!

For this list, the BBC ran a poll for the UK to choose their Best-Loved Book. Three quarters of a million votes were received, and a the end, J.R.R. Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings triumphed over all competitors. The entire list has 200 books on it, but the top 21 are listed here, as they are ranked in the final:

1. The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkein

2. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh – A.A. Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis

10. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte

11. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte

13. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens

18. Little Women – Louisa Mae Alcott

19. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres

20. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

As before, the entire list is a little daunting, so this list is the one I’m going to read. To knock it down a little more, I am going to skip the ones I just read during my recent book reading foray. Due to that list, I get to cross off numbers 4, 6, 8, 11, 15, and 21. That leaves 15, so if I give myself three weeks for each, that will add up to almost a year again. Of those 15, I think I’ve only read two, Winnie the Pooh and Great Expectations. As much as I don’t want to seem like I’m procrastinating, I think I’ll wait to start with the new year – too much stuff going on until then. This should be fun!

Catcher in the Rye

Holden gets expelled
Goes on big city junket
Tries to make life work

Precarious Position

Walking on a tightrope

Balancing in the air

One wrong step and down I go

Is there a net to catch me there?

I spend the whole time looking down

Not focused on my task

Distraction from the vital things

Might cause my mighty crash

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

A life of torture

Everything goes against me

I want to be white

Beloved

Slaves escape to North

New lives with secrets buried

One secret comes back

Hemingway Haiku

The Sun Also Rises

Macho type ex-pat
Drinks, tours Spain and Italy
Watches bullfighting

Perfect Weekend

Saturdays mornings
Are for shopping and eating
And time with daughters

More Book Synopses Haiku

Hunger Games

Odds in your favor?

Only way to win the game

Is never to play

Catching Fire

Back into the ring

The tributes start to fight back

Katniss will lead them

 

Book Plots in Haiku

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Pre-World War One in
The poorest part of New York
Immigrants struggle



1984

Questioning the world
Wondering what life is for
Big Brother watches

What is up with me and the haiku?

‘Neath the starry skies

I walk the beaten path and

Dream of better days