swirling snow...
the crunch 
of cornflakes


—Laryalee Fraser

About the author: Lary is a retired reporter/photographer, enjoying small-town life in British Columbia, Canada. Her website is "a leaf rustles".

18 responses
published 24 January 2007
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Responses to the haiku for 24 January 2007 by Laryalee Fraser

  1.  
    Angelika Wienert
    2007-01-24 03:45:27
     

    snowflakes, cornflakes...

    and snowflakes are so soft, cornflakes so... -- a nice contrast, Lary

  2.  
    ed markowski
    2007-01-24 05:48:02
     

    good stuff laryalee. here's a little
    something to go along with your
    cereal...

    morning moon...
    the nooks and crannies
    of an english muffin

    ed

  3.  
    b. m. richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
    2007-01-24 05:48:27
     

    angelika, aptly put, "snowflakes so soft, cornflakes so crunchy"...and vice versal.
    though both soggy when wet.
    the contrasting and similarities continues:
    both in their whiteness, at some point both bearing the appearance of being dirt.
    ah yes;

    deep in wintry thought
    over bowl of cornflakes--
    are any two alike

  4.  
    Magyar
    2007-01-24 08:10:51
     

    Laryalee,
    _I enjoyed your comparative contraries,
    snow -silently- fallen, -growling- underfoot.
    _M

  5.  
    Bill Kenney
    2007-01-24 08:17:01
     

    Enjoyed this all over again, lary.

  6.  
    Mike
    2007-01-24 09:37:16
     

    I read somewhere once that cornflakes were used to simulate snow for early television broadcasts...apparently the swirling effect couldn't be distinguished from the real thing on a studio set.

  7.  
    Chris Hawes
    2007-01-24 10:56:01
     

    I like the whimsy here, Lary!

  8.  
    Patricia (a/k/a Roswila)
    2007-01-24 11:11:29
     

    Really nice contrast/comparison. And fun, too!

  9.  
    Collin Barber
    2007-01-24 16:29:00
     

    Hey Lary,

    Great to see this one here! Much enjoyed.


    Collin

  10.  
    myron lysenko (myronpoet at hotmail dot com)
    2007-01-24 18:11:26
     

    congratulations Lary, on having your amusing haiku selected and shown here.

    corn flakes are yellow in Australia. which colour are they in Canada?

  11.  
    Susan Constable
    2007-01-24 19:50:05
     

    Nice one, Lary. I love auditory haiku . . . and anything with food in it always helps!

  12.  
    kala ramesh
    2007-01-24 20:12:43
     

    Exquisite!
    -kala

  13.  
    b. m. richardson (orgbob at webtv dot net)
    2007-01-25 04:23:09
     

    myron, your words remind me of another dissimilarity. cornflakes in the states are yellow(variant of); however from early childhood i was sternly warned to never eat the yellow snow...

    -

    quarter moon lingers
    past the lamp post
    flakes swirl--
    or spiralling insects

  14.  
    Alan Summers
    2007-01-25 10:09:29
     

    A fun haiku, love it, snap crackle & pop (although that's Rice Crispies) ;-)

  15.  
    d. f. tweney
    2007-01-25 11:36:45
     

    Mike, I think it was *soap* flakes that were used for snow in old-time movies. That and asbestos. But not, so far as I know, corn flakes!

    California winter--
    asbestos in the soil
    after eighty years

  16.  
    Vasile Moldovan (vasilemoldovan at yahoo dot com)
    2007-01-26 08:01:27
     

    Snowflakes...
    children licking one's lips-
    cornflakes

  17.  
    martin
    2007-01-30 16:09:52
     

    Lary,

    It's grrrrrreat!

  18.  
    Rita Odeh
    2007-02-06 09:02:05
     

    Cornflakes save from the boredom of being locked at home because of the snowflakes.
    A good haiku Lary. Enjoyed.

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