Sorry for my lame haiku. With the first round of nursing school exams, my fussy Mira and her teeth, and Cordy getting over a cold, I’m in over my head this week. The brain has reached maximum capacity and the minimum sleep threshold, making shut down necessary.

Once this round of exams are complete, I expect my creativity to creep back in. For now, I’m sure you’ll all create some wonderful, inspiring (or at least amusing) haiku today.

To play along for Haiku Friday, follow these steps:

1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.

2. Sign the Mister Linky below with your name and the link to your haiku post (the specific post URL, not your generic blog URL). We will delete your link if it doesn’t go to a haiku. If you need help with this, contact Jennifer or myself.

3. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by clicking the button above.

So flex those mental muscles and join Jennifer and I for Haiku Fridays!

Hola señora
¿Dónde está el baño?
Muchas gracias

Inspired by this video.

It’s time for Haiku Fridays again! To play along, follow these steps:

1. Write your own haiku on your blog. You can do one or many, all following a theme or just random. What’s a haiku, you ask? Click here.

2. Sign the Mister Linky below with your name and the link to your haiku post (the specific post URL, not your generic blog URL).

3. Pick up a Haiku Friday button to display on the post or in your sidebar by clicking the button above. (Button designed by my talented husband, who is still upset I haven’t mentioned his graphic design skills yet.)

So flex those mental muscles and join Jennifer and I for Haiku Fridays. Start the weekend with a relaxing poem. Believe me, it’s the only type of poetry I’ll ever be successful at!

(Seriously. Do babies have a sixth sense to determine when we are the most preoccupied and so automatically choose that moment to decide they can’t sleep and must be held?)

Admit it – it’s hard to come up with a long post right before the weekend. So join Jennifer from Playgroups Are No Place For Children and I for Haiku Friday and exercise your writing talents with a simple poem.

The rules are simple. Include at least one haiku in a post on a Friday, and link back to this post (you can use the button below if you’d like). Feel free to elaborate on your haiku, or write several haiku to tell a story. Just have fun!

For those who don’t know, a haiku is a short poem written in three lines. The first line has five syllables, the second has seven syllables, and the third has five syllables. Easy, right?

Once you’ve written it, be sure to sign the Mr Linky so others can come find your haiku! You can find the Mr Linky each week on the current Friday haiku that Jennifer and I post. And go ahead and use our button, too. Here’s the code:

[a href=”http://amommystory.blogspot.com/2007/09/haiku-fridays.html”][img src=”http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1047/1338959961_a93cf33414_o.jpg” alt=”Haiku Friday” height=”117″ width=”150″] [/a]

(Replace these [ ] with these to make the button appear.)

Click here for the haiku for this week (July 17).