Hal McCartor

Five Haikus,   (Insulated)

• Haikus carry some weight; seventeen serious syllables, not much room for levity.. 

• Close perhaps to the secular liturgy of wine tasting ?

• There, After each challenge, , palate-cleansing white bread.

• And so, between each of these Haikus, something to cleanse the pre-frontal palate.

• The choice of a cleanser/ Insulator? 

• “The limerick is usually funny or nonsensical in tone and subject.” 

• The source of these Limericks?

• Dan Webster, and Spokane's Spokesman-Review  held a  Limerick contest each March.

• For decades!   Tied it in with St. Patrick's Day; published some, gave prizes.....

• Your author never won top prize.

• But he always gave it  his best.