I have occasionally posted a haiku, with a mashing up of the terms used for weather and writing, because it struck me that the summary you see given at the end of a weather bulletin on the telly often had this little rhythm to it that felt like it should make a verse.
Many of the verses disappeared in my ‘anything older than three months goes’ deletion purge, but I decided to bring these back because, when I titled a new one recently (with my highly creative numbering method), I realised that some readers might go looking for the previous numbered ones. Unlikely. But possible.
So here they are on a page all together and I’ll add the new ones as I come up with them, if I do.
Eleven
very wordy day
given to long-windedness
verbosity high
Ten
storm warnings in place
heavy fictional conflict
emotive deluges
Nine
heavy synonyms
dense and hefty leaden skies
with weighty full stops
Eight
could be cold enough
to freeze your similes off
some icy phrases
Seven
tired grey similes
in totally soaked adverbs
dripping with sarcasm
Six
sticky and sultry
hot electric atmosphere
prose wild and stormy
Five
clouds of mystery
heavy showers of rubbish
some moderate mirth
Four
clear, bright and sunny
optimistic in outlook
unsettled later
Three
it will be mostly
and excruciatingly
hammering it down
Two
cloudy metaphors
scattered adjective showers
gags debatable
One
some warm prose outbreaks
low allegory levels
becoming dismal
