Our roving worm news reporter, Barb V., recently told me about a cool thread that had been started over on the Garden Web Forum called “Compost Haiku“, and suggested this might be fun to try over here.
Based on the fact that we had so much fun with “You Know You Are a Worm-Head When…“, I agreed wholeheartedly!
For those of you unfamiliar with Haiku (or needing a review), it is a type of Japanese poetry. Each poem consists of three short lines, typically containing a specific number of syllables each. OK, so technically they are not actually syllables – they are actually referred to as “moras”, and you can read ALL about the nitty gritty rules and regulations on the Haiku Wikipedia page if you want.
For OUR (fun) purposes, let’s just stick with the commonly accepted 5-7-5 syllable guideline – and for the sake of not cramping anyone’s artistic style, you can even feel free to alter that a bit.
Here is an example – a very nice Haiku written by Barb V:
Surface solid squirm
Add melons, numbers explode
Where do they come from?
And a couple I came up with for this post (I’ll likely do some more for the comments section):
Open the worm bin
Take in the rich earthy smell
This is true beauty
Hand fork moves swiftly
Red Worms dance in the sunlight
Simple excitement
So, as you can see, all of these follow the 5-7-5 syllable guideline, and of course have something to do with worm composting.
Now have some fun!
Thanks again to Barb V. for the great post idea.
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Blue worms a-plenty.
Drat! Not cold hardy. What now?
Next time, buy Bentley’s.
Call them red wigglers.
Eisenia fetida
is too hard to say.
composting army,
wriggling holes through my trash, call
“Join our ranks, human!”
Squirm grapevine newsflash!
Some worms go to summer camp
Vermi discontent!
What would Hamlet do
About summer of discontent?
Soliloquize, natch
Complicated? NO
feed them healthy and slow
watch the numbers grow
Quick grammar question:
Do worms address each other
As “he/she” or “they”?
A cocoon so pale
will it be a tri inside
come forward and thrive
Really cool idea
will have to try one later
what rhymes with dayglo?
Redworms are moving
through my horse poo a plenty
almost is ready
pretty cool Bentley
you should do this more often
we could win redworms
wheres Mark from Kansas
we could win vermicompost
if he would let us
redworms and black gold
Larry D dreams of freebies.
vermifanatic!
Boy did that open
a can of worms I’m hopin
must go feed my squirm
Thanks to Bentley for
Experimental Ventures
And pictures galore
what does haiku mean
my vermicompost needs screened
Bentley has nice greens
(hey that rhymed!)
Red Worm Composting
how nice to learn something new
shorts the landfills too.
coffee grinds and shells
look at the red worms just beg
no, PH is high
Up on #5 if I had said slowly, I would of been right on.
Semitranslucent,
Striped, squirmy; Such beauty
to doting vermkeeps!
Oh, Ted, don’t be so mean … let the little guys have some UCG.
Semitranslucent ,
Striped, squirmy, such beauty
to doting vermkeeps
Sorry for the double send. Weird!
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Worms by the handful
Bentley teases with pictures
Photogenic worms?
OK, I refuse to participate in Haiku, it drove me insane in school.
But, Letty has a few.
Hey redworm what’s up
eating trash and manure
my garden loves you
poop for my garden
the greens look delectable
can’t wait to eat them
little busy worms
that take on the largest loads
to give me black gold
gusanos rojo
dame une jardin vejo
floresitas para mi
Have Fun!
Letty
worm cocoons are cool
makes me feel like a worm dad
good feelings i have
Aw c’mon Mark…You can’t let Letty have all the fun. Surely you can come up with some romantic worm poetry even if it’s not Haiku…Your fans are counting on you. (ok Bentley, chime in here at any time) 😉
Mark is a pooper
Letty comes to his rescue
Spanish Haiku rules!
Worm-heads a plenty
Trading words on Friday night
Red Worms MUST be cool
Push the envelope
Vermi-post-culture-ponics
Next? Sky’s the limit
Need less garbage bags
Wiggle worms munch all day long
Landfill is happy
worms work in the dark
spinning hay into black gold
like Rumpelstiltskin
Videos are proof
Of the great glut of garbage
Fed to red wrigglers
Like mad scientists
Bentley and Mark overfed bins
Worms go tell Ophra ?
Is this a scandal?
Worms in vermi-therapy?
No, all bins happy
Fat, full, and happy
Phew! Thats a great relief
Worms glad, too
There has been a lot of talk about grass clippings lately.
I don’t use clippings
Too much work for me
I stink at haiku but
My bin won’t smell like pee
There I tried
WOW, this is compost
food scraps, cardboard, and clippings
cheaper than store cost.
Gee, it’s hot today
Went out to sprinkle worm pit
I got soaked, too
Just like the kids do
Getting soaked felt great
Verms/vermkeep all wet
The snow is coming
Here’s a warm layer of hay
Good night, and sleep tight.
Keep them in the dark
Let them eat all your garbage
Soil is what you get.
Vermicomposting
Local effort global change
Worms eat my garbage
Worm compost today!
Make the world a better place!
So easy to do.
Worm compost today!
Make the world a better place.
So easy to do!
I agree with mark
haiku is complicated
but at least he tried
a wise man once said
you can build a large flowthru
larrys’ looks like mine
Bentley builds trenches
that he fills up with horse poo
next try alpaca
Try composting now
If they can eat my garbage
They can eat yours too
Bentley, thanks alot.
Your awesom for what you do.
Hats off, heres to you.
On Facebook, who new?
The members, how fast they grew
Next stop, five thousand
Horse poo by the piles
Worms are gathered in masses
Wow they multiplied
some people use light
some use eighth inch screen sifters
what is your method
call it worm compost
you could say global worming
you have to keep worms
Who knew how fast worms
Procreat? Wom pit started
Casually now teems
My kids joke about Mom’s
‘Herd of Squirm”, but sure enjoy
Garden’s Vegs and fruits
Worms are hired hands on
City-lot ‘farm’. Makes me a
Gentlemom farmer?
Cocoons in a row
Which will be the first to show
I wait patiently
Here I have some fruit
cardboard, peat moss and veg soup
smash, grind, got manure
So many of worms
I have no room left for you
Time to start fishing
Bentley’s eyes light up
His brain tingles. “What happens
If ___ ” fill in the blank
Next project on his
Curiosity meter?
Worm herd wants to know
(If worm climbs glass door) April 8th 2010 🙂
Why does a worm climb
To heights of Bentley’s glass door?
Edward Vermery?
Any relation
To mountaineer, Sir Edward?
No, just a bad pun
where did this come from?
I feel compassion for worms
climate controlled bin
Vermihaiku book!
Bentley dreams of royalties?
Nope; worms on his mind.
If the worms knew this
As intelligent humans
Castings make our day
When the rains pours down
And a worm is trapped alone
The Robin comes near
Why are we involved?
Help this spec, called Mother Earth
Last a bit longer.
Eeeeoooaaargh! How gross!
Jabba the Hutt slug eating
Vulnerable verms
Predatory slug
Dispatched by verm-herder
Squish, begone, Jabba!