Words meant to welcome—
\n“Please make yourself at home.”
\nremind me I’m not.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Oboist mutes gasp,
\nplaying unviable phrase,
\nconquering Bizet.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
A Nantucket man
\nknew his much lim’ricked neighbor—
\nenvied him his fame.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
Plan for the future,
\nbut never let your planning
\nerase the present.<\/p>\n
*****<\/p>\n
An alluring scent,
\nindecently delicious,
\nrenders gents senseless.<\/p>\n
***** Words meant to welcome— “Please make yourself at home.” remind me I’m not. ***** Oboist mutes gasp, playing unviable phrase, conquering Bizet. ***** A Nantucket man knew his much lim’ricked neighbor— envied him his fame. ***** Plan for the future, but never let your planning erase the present. ***** An alluring scent, indecently delicious, renders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,99,46,42,24],"tags":[2450,215,851,2451,2452,1914,2449],"class_list":["post-8528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice-humor","category-haiku","category-house-home-humor","category-limericks","category-music-humor","tag-bizet","tag-haiku-senryu","tag-home","tag-music-poetry","tag-oboe","tag-planning-humor","tag-scents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8528"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8544,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8528\/revisions\/8544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(The first haiku was inspired by Sensational Haiku Wednesday’s<\/em> home<\/a> prompt. The second haiku was inspired by 3 Word Wednesday’s<\/em> prompt to use the words gasp, mute, and viable.<\/a> That second haiku alludes to a notoriously long and difficult oboe passage in Bizet’s Symphony in C<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"