See? That’s a gimme for you right there. All you have to do to play along is come up with 12 more! You don’t have to use two-thousand-thirteen, but please feel free to do so if you want to.
With all the grumpy posts of late, the gloom and doom and stress of the holidays, and the impending destruction of the Earth that we narrowly avoided, things have been a little less than cheeky around here sometimes in recent weeks. So today, let’s have nice, friendly haikus.
Today is all about hope, promise and looking forward to bigger, better, brighter things in this most shiniest of new years! I hope this year is the best ever for all of my blog pals and readers.
Okay! On with the haikus!
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Happy New Year Friends!
So glad you are still reading!
Thank you all so much!
Haikus continue
To bring you joy each Thursday
Yes, they will still suck
2013
Year Mayans said wouldn’t come
So glad they were wrong!
Wishing you all joy!
And awesome new adventures
In the coming year
Hoping this year holds
Lots of stuff to write about
For all my blog pals
Please don’t fret about
Those New Year’s resolutions
Pesky little things
Lose weight, get rich, pppffftttt…
And be a better person
Fugeddaboudit!
Set us up to fail
Nobody needs bad karma
Just do what feels right
Do what you do best
Continue being awesome
That will bring great things!
Okay, that’s enough for now! Another busy day at work for me, so I will try to stop by periodically to admire your phenomenal poetic efforts, but unfortunately, hanging out and playing all day probably won’t happen. So you kids just haiku and have fun all over my page today.
One final wish from me to you~ I humbly thank all of my new friends and readers for making The Cheeky Diva more than I ever could have imagined. This includes my wonderful husband, family, real world friends and far away blog pals. You all have no idea how much your continued support and readership means to me. You all have helped me realize that my creative spark needs a place to live and grow, and with your help, it’s doing just that.
I sincerely hope this is a wonderful year for you all and that we will all continue to become better friends, writers and people in general. Happiest of New Years
~Cheeky
*IMPORTANT UPDATE*
Next week, for THM, we will have a fun and highly interactive day. Thursday Haiku Madness goes to the movies! All haikus must be movie lines. They will be numbered, and readers will guess what movies they are from. Haikuing and guessing will continue throughout the day, and later in the week I will post the best guessers. There may even be a cool homemade badge for the badass who guesses the most movies correctly. So, be thinking of some big hits and sleepers that would make great haikus! I hope you’ll stop by to play!
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Oh, Cheeky Diva
I’m coming out of the fog
Need to write some more
I’ve followed along
But never took time to say
How much I relate
I’m trying so hard
Not to pack my bags and go
To sunny Maui
Winter not my thing
It fucks with my head you know
Foggy, foggy, dew
Guess I’ll go to work
Like I do most ev’ry day
Bills that must be paid
One thing for sure though
Thursday Haiku brings the sun
Into my brain now
Thanks Cheeky Diva
2013 is yours
The year of good things
Wow Red! I’m impressed with your mad haiku skillz! Look at all them stanzas! Can anybody beat you?
I agree that winter sucks. Have you seen the Weather Channel this morning? There’s a little dot of snow, right over south Central Nebraska. That’s where I live. Great! Just freaking great!
Let’s hope this is the year of good things for all of us!
Woke up this morning
With some Haiku on my brain
Perhaps I have peaked
Thank you Cheeky D
For keeping Haiku Madness
It makes my face smile
You are oh so welcome! Like to see smiling faces. I hope you have some killer movie lines ready for next weeks game.
Here’s looking at you kid.
Oh yeah! I’ve got two already to go, (with a tiny bit of paraphrasing, to make the syllable count work–which I’ll allow everyone else to do too)
OK, it may get nasty. My favorite movie is Pulp Fiction.
Oh yeah? Love that one too!
Let’s do this!
While I can’t beat Red,
I agree with his thoughts on
two thousand thirteen.
I don’t know if anyone can beat Red today, he’s on fire! Thanks for playing! Please stop by next week with a movie line haiku or two! I’ll let a couple of rules slide, if you have to fudge on syllables to make it work, I’ll turn the other way. I hope we have a lot of fun!
New year, new promise
that I will follow where my
Heart wants me to go.
But she’s a crazy
creature sometimes, and the voice
in my head says, Wait!
Are you sure this is
what you really want to do?
Heart laughs and says, Yes!
(This is fun…hope you like ‘em. I’m sure I’ll be back next week
. )
Awesome haiku! Welcome! So glad to see you here. I’ll be very anxious to read more of your work!
I have a whole blog full, if you’re interested
.
I am! I must drop by and take a look. As you can see, I too have a blog full… of what I’m not quite sure. Random garbage pretty much sums it up. A real writer I’m not. Just a dorky dabbler, but it keeps me out of trouble for the most part.
Writer or not (I vote yes), I like your attitude. Best screen name ever. Glad I found your blog!
The world of blogging.
Where we get to know Unknowns.
So glad to meet you.
Hi there! Thanks for playing! The world of blogging is way too much fun! Spend too much time here, I do. Oh crap! Haikuing has me talking like Yoda, it does. Tee hee.
this year I am find-
ing my bliss no matter what
so there I said it
Good for you! I’m finding that bliss is well worth finding, no matter how hard I have to look for it. It can be sneaky by hiding sometimes, can’t it?
and it can sneak up on you – I like it when it does that!
Me too!
Like Yoda to speak.
My resolution this is.
(On Thursdays, at least!)
Thanks, CheekyD, for sharing the Haiku Madness every week!
Very nice, but someone forgot to carry the one when they were transcribing the Mayan calendar math, so we are all going to die next Thursday…
My dearest Cheeky
I will start every haiku
In this here fashion
The doom and the gloom
Have grinded me the fuck down
I am glad you’re back
So that cheekiness
Can fill my lonesome reader
With your funny words
Glad to be able to give you a smile, my most favoritest of stormtroopers!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t the responses supposed to be haikus? You’re failing at your own game.
Nope, sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. Lucky to have time to respond at all today. I don’t have much for rules around here. It’s kind of just a spaz free for all, but I was just about to tweet you about the Circus Peanuts. I agree, they are pretty gross. So I have no idea why I want them every now and then. Maybe I should do a post about that. I mean about stupid things my brain tells me to do some times.
Yes, let’s hear more from the other voices in your head.
Alright then! I didn’t have anything in particular planned for tomorrow, and I just haven’t been too thrilled with the Daily Prompts the last few days, so, voices in my head it is!
Woohoo!
2013
May unicorns and rainbows
Light up all your days
(How’s that for hope and promise?
)
Sounds good to me! I wish that for everyone!
Reblogged this on Cytherean Dreams and commented:
My contribution to the challenge:
New year, new promise
that I will follow where my
Heart wants me to go.
But she’s a crazy
creature sometimes, and the voice
in my head says, Wait!
Are you sure this is
what you really want to do?
Heart laughs and says, Yes!
Feeling weird, but not
good silly weird, hate to be
a downer today
Rainbows, unicorns
smiles and laughter, that’s the
order for the day
So smile till you
laugh, and laugh till you smile
and don’t forget to
Read Thursday Haiku Mad-
ness on The Cheeky Diva
to improve your day!
Only 4 stanzas
Well, 5, but Red’s record still
stands, I didn’t come close.
Thank you for playing!
Sorry you’re having bad day
Don’t worry bout Red
Hope your weird feeling
Turns to silly for you soon
That’s always more fun
Rainbows, unicorns
Can’t always make things more fun
Need smile on a stick?
Thanks so much for the haikus. Always more fun if friends play along. I don’t think you’re a downer at all. Hope tomorrow is a better day.
Your “smile on a stick” actually made me smile!
Made me think of both Jeff Dunham (“Jalepeno. On a stick”) and Terry Prachett (“Onna stick?”).
Thanks! Your Thursday Haiku Madness has never failed to brighten my day!
Aw! Thanks. If there’s one thing I hope to do in life, it’s to make someone smile or laugh. It’s so nice to hear I can brighten someone’s day.
Dammit I Missed It
Thursday Haiku Has Commenced
Cheers To Last Entry!
Oh man, I really fucking suck at haikus.
What’s the syllable count again per line…? HELP MEEEEEE!
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