Haiku Friday in Honor of Basho

Basho, circa 1790

Please post your haiku on the subject of Fall as a comment to this post. To be considered for the Grand Prize, submit your poem before 9am Friday.

The definition of a haiku is a Japanese verse poem of unrhymed lines which are written in a structure of 5 syllables for first line, 7 syllables for second line, then 5 syllables for third line.

Here is my entry (must be a great prize :)):

  Asphalt burns little feet

  Running from school to dry streams

  Winds turn, dry leaves fall

Thank God and Greyhounds They Are Gone...

Unfortunately, I missed House Resolution 101 of the Texas Legislature's 84th session. But, it is not too late to join the distinguished Representatives in celebrating Tito's Vodka with Red Grapefruit Juice as the "official mixed drink of the 84th Legislative Session." The resolution provides a good history of the classic Greyhound Cocktail. With the close of the Regular Session, we can sing quietly to ourselves, "Thank God and Greyhounds, they are gone."