Seagulls like to meetTo discuss best ways to snatch
Food from children's hands.
This was inspired by Sara over at Suburban Lesbian Housewife who posted today about a seagull stealing a hot dog from one of her sons at the beach.
Seagulls are funny birds and I love they way they gather together on rooftops or on the beach, looking for all the world as if they were having a meeting to discuss some pertinent matter. I took that picture when we were at St. George on Tuesday.
Seagulls, seagulls, seagulls. Whether they are at the beach in Maine or Florida or hovering over the dumpster at your local Walmart, their cries, according to Kathleen, translate to Mine! Mine! Mine!
For more (and far better) haikus, go on over to Rebecca's place at Recuerda Mi Corazon.
And if you'd like, write one of your own to accompany a picture. It can be poignant or profound, cosmic or comic. Doesn't matter. They will be your seventeen syllables.
This made me laugh out loud - those birds DO get together like that and plot all sorts of mischief! A wonderful haiku - and Sara's picture of her son and that seagull eating that hotdog was poignantly hilarious....
ReplyDeleteHA! Perfect description!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
They are naughty clowns, aren't they?
ReplyDeleteKathleen is right.
ReplyDeleteLove the picture, it's Perfectly Gull.
oh mrs. moon,
ReplyDeleteresurfacing with haiku is delightful.
like a perfect filling snack,
stolen or shared.
you always nurture me.
I love this - who hasn't had a french fry stolen out of their hand by one of these greedy scavengers?
ReplyDeleteLOL.. a secret seagull meeting? :D ENJOYED reading this, Ms.Moon :D
ReplyDeleteI don't think they need to meet about it... It's inherent! Cute haiku!
ReplyDeleteI think you captured the essence of being a seagull much better than Jonathan Livingston...
ReplyDeleteInspired by your words and photo:
ReplyDeletePlotting thievery,
gulls sidle up to children—
snatch! the cookie’s gone!
Haiku My Heart…at the Oasis
I love the idea of seagulls having a game plan. Nice haiku. Reminds me of the sneaky little bird from my criuse photos.
ReplyDeleteha! i love this! my son and i do the "mine, mine, mine" from nemo all the time...it never fails to crack us up...plotting seagulls would not surprise me!
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