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1. qazse Says:

   
   August 24, 2006 at 12:12 am

   replaces: black foot frog August 16, 2006
   Posted by qazse in Poetry, Nature, Haiku. 8 comments , edit post

   summer is broiling
   a frog hops across the road
   popping tar bubbles

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   1. Agnes – August 16, 2006[Edit] Frogs. Popping bubbles. Reminds me of when I lived by a lake in Michigan. Many nights driving home after a rain, I counted all the frogs that “popped” under the car’s tires. Pop. Pop. Pop. Loads of popping frogs.

   2. twitches – August 16, 2006[Edit] EW – we have tons of frogs from the pond in our backyard. I have named them all Jonathan. Last year I popped one in the garage and felt horrible about it afterwards, having named it and all. I never did scrape him off the concrete though.

   3. liquidquick – August 16, 2006[Edit] the frog-king ponders
   ‘how do i protect my flock
   from speeding humans?’

   4. qazse – August 16, 2006[Edit] I like to toss them in a microwave. When the popping stops – they are ready.

   5. fencer – August 17, 2006[Edit] mmmm… tasty!

   6. Jules – August 17, 2006[Edit] Ewww…poor frogs. Growing up with Kermitt the Frog and the Muppitt show – I just can’t help but feel sorry for them…after all, it’s not easy being green.

   7. liquidquick – August 17, 2006[Edit] it is if you’re a twenty…

   8. qazse – August 17, 2006[Edit] poor blackfoot, he or she has gone from popper to poppee.

   Thank you all for stopping by!  Your comments are always appreciated and entertaining.

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2. liquidquick Says:

   
   August 24, 2006 at 12:16 am

   are you going for minimilinimism… (try saying that a few times fast…) how bout:

   summer hot
   frog hops
   bubbles pop

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3. qazse Says:

   
   August 24, 2006 at 12:37 am

   hey LQ, you are quick!

   minimilinimism…easy for you to say

   to answer your question, yes and no

   I’m just through counting syllables.

   Spontaneity does not manifest itself exclusively in seventeen syllable bytes.

   I like your minimilinimism rendering.

   I remember the good old days when we used to count syllables.

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4. liquidquick Says:

   
   August 24, 2006 at 2:28 pm

   boiling life’s quirks down
   to seventeen syllables
   is no small challenge

   free-form is fun too
   takes away restrictions and
   widens word gamut

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5. qazse Says:

   
   August 25, 2006 at 12:34 am

   True, the 575 format presents a challenge and that in itself can be fun. I have had many enjoyable visits to your blog (sorry if you’re bored…) attempting haiku in response to your posted haiku and will continue to do so. However, I also think it is good to depart from format.

   PS nice 575’s

   chose not to write this
   but chose to write that instead
   something went missing

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6. twitches Says:

   
   August 26, 2006 at 8:04 am

   five fits in one hand
   but seven takes extra fin-
   gers to be counted

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7. qazse Says:

   
   August 26, 2006 at 8:29 am

   Good Saturday morning twitches!

   clever haiku (clevku)

   It is so true that 575 requires two hands and thereby precludes the concurrent enjoyment of a beverage (or other preoccupations) while composing. That is why Hemingway never took it up.

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8. Jules Says:

   
   August 26, 2006 at 7:24 pm

   Twitches needs one hand free to hold her chai lattes. Hemmingway…now he’s quite another story, isn’t he.

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9. qazse Says:

   
   August 26, 2006 at 10:26 pm

   chai latte sounds good right now…actually I was about to make an iced coffee. Wouldn’t it be nice to send material reality through this machine.
   I could share my iced coffee! Naaaahhh…

   Jules, congratulations on the outstanding triathlon!

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10. twitches Says:

    
    August 27, 2006 at 10:51 am

    Nah. I have a cupholder.

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11. liquidquick Says:

    
    August 28, 2006 at 12:38 am

    my new obsession
    caramel-coffee latte
    in huge quantities

    though i haven’t yet
    tried an ‘iced’ version of this
    think i will, tonight.

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12. qazse Says:

    
    August 28, 2006 at 1:00 am

    this sounds like Starbucks?

    I loved visiting Washington state. There are espresso wagons all over.
    I was on the Pacific Crest Trail in the middle of a wilderness preserve. We were ten miles from, and four thousand feet above, the nearest espresso wagon yet I swear I got a whiff of java on more than one occasion.

    I imagine that is what heaven is like, beautiful cascade mountain trails with little espresso wagons every few miles. I’ll have a grande Sumatran and my friends here, Lewis and Clark, are sharing a venti caramel latte.

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13. liquidquick Says:

    
    August 28, 2006 at 1:12 am

    what a cool job to be a little-espresso-wagon owner on a mountain trail in heaven.
    my sign would read:

    ‘Tasty Beverage™
    payable in short poems
    and interest-free’

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14. qazse Says:

    
    August 28, 2006 at 1:26 am

    late night at Tasty’s
    stars pepper the mountain sky
    aromas mingle

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15. liquidquick Says:

    
    August 28, 2006 at 1:42 am

    ok… the new-new obsession

    • boil water
    • in a mug mix one teaspoon each of instant coffee, coffeemate vanilla-caramel, and coffeemate mocha-latte
    • add boiled water, stir
    • fill a glass with ice
    • pour the coffee mixture over the ice
    • add a splash each of kahlua and butterscotch schnaps, stir

    and since your suggestion was the inspiration, we’ll call it

    QazseQuick – only at Tasty’s!

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16. qazse Says:

    
    September 2, 2006 at 2:55 am

    LQ I just found this comment. I don’t know how it slipped past me. The QazseQuick sounds festive. I am going to fill the larder with the necessary ingredients and craft a festive batch. It is a flattering thing to have a drink named after you. Now I know how Tom Collins and Jim Beam felt. Thanks and Happy Trails! or should I say Tasty Trails…

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