Fußball, bocce & bier

The summer has finally arrived in Germany (shhhhh, don’t tell ol’ man winter), and to celebrate this momentous occasion, we thought we’d liven it up with a few haiku poems.

Those who don't have their poetry books close might still recall haikus usually follow a 5-7-5 syllable rhyme scheme. Yes, Shawn Date, I know the “on” doesn't exactly translate to “syllable” but let’s just pretend for summer’s sake (not the same as the Japanese drink, sake – woo! I’m on fire tonight!)

So, the first haiku I thought of was from a popular T-shirt, which reads: 

Haikus are easy

But sometimes they don’t make sense

Refrigerator

And here are some samples from Wikipedia: 

the first cold shower

even the monkey seems to want

a little coat of straw

how many gallons

of Edo's rain did you drink?

cuckoo

Man, that is so true.

Here are a few inspirational, summer-related haikus we wrote: 

Heat is good, me like

Meine frau, freund, hund  und bier

Let us play bocce

Tonight, got smoke on

Went home wit some‘ to poke on

Dr. Dre came by

 And since this is an international party, we’d be remiss if we didn’t include some submissions from our most avid buddymollys buddies (the official name of our fan club).

This little gem was submitted by everyone’s favorite war hero, Vice Chancellor Mikhail “Jorge” Green (VEEN) III, who happens to have not one, but two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals:

Topics suck, Jerome

And so do you; but summer,

However, is cool

We’d love to hear your summer celebratory (not celebatory) haikus – the best ones might even get published …