haiku
22September 1, 2018 by petrujviljoen
Copyright Petru J Viljoen
windless day –
tree comes alive
with monkey
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I love the Haiku and the photo. 🙂
This made me smile!
Thanks!
Haiku from me to you.
Safe, top of the world, away from the pesky cat. “Yeah! That’s what he thinks.”
? Susan.
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Ha-ha-ha-!!! Probably! Away from the pesky human too who keeps chasing them from her veg and flower garden!
No! you would not chase this innocent Monkey. 😛
Not that one. But if he/she comes into my house to steal my food I will! Oh yes I will!! Did so only this morning.
I like it 🙂 Your haiku has the cheekiness of the monkey.
And can they be cheeky! The impertinence of monkeys – a collective term for a troup.
Really?
Yes! In my Oxford Reference Dictionary. I should post the whole list – some are hilarious. another one I remember off the top of my head: a pity of prisoners.
Wow. What a list that would be. Sounds really funny. 😃
I got the ‘impertinence of monkeys’ wrong but here goes:
Shrewdness of apes (but they can be impertinent – I know for a fact!)
Pace of asses
Sloth or sleuth of bears
swarm, drift, or bike of bees
Volary of birds in an aviary
Sounder of wild boar
Blush of boys
Gang of buffalo
Clowder or glaring of cats
Drove, drift or mob of cattle
Cletch or cluth or peep of checkens
Chattering or clattering of choughs
Drunkship of cobblers
Rag or rake of colts
Hastiness of cooks
Covert of coots
Cowardice of curs
Kennel of dogs
Flight, dole or piteousness of doves
Business of ferrets
Charm or chirm of finches
Stalk of foresters
Skulk of foxes
Skein, team or wedge of geese
Covey of grouse
Husk or down of hares
Cast of hawks
Observance of hermits
Siege of herons
Kennel, pack, cry or mute of hounds
Mob or troop of kangaroos
Kindle of kittens
Bevy of ladies
Desert of lapwing
Exaltation of bevy of larks
Leap of leopards
Tiding of magpies
Suit of mallard,
Richesse of martens
Faith of merchants
Labour of moles
Barren of mules
Watch of nightingales
Superfluity of nuns
Covery of partridges
Muster of peacocks
Malapertness of pedlars
Rookery of penguins
Nye of pheasants
Stand, wing or congregatin of plovers
Pity of prisoners
Unkindness of ravens
Parliament of rooks
Rookery of seals
Host of sparrows
Murmuration of starlings
Sounder of tame swine
Fawning of taverners
Rout of wolves
Gaggle of women
These are wonderful. An observance of hermits! I can imagine a group of them standing on a hillside observing the rest of us. But overall so many to cherish. They read like a bizarre poem.
Ha-ha!!! Or people observing them from far away. Or hermits observing everything with no comment.
exactly 🙂 I like the idea of people observing them. It could become a kind of spectator sport – spot the hermit 🙂
If I was the hermit I’d complain!
lol
Yes!
Thanks!
LOVE IT
Thanks Bruce.