strange visitors came friendly silence greeted me darn! none spoke English senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Movies always have alien visitors being able to speak English (or whatever the home country language is of the […]
Cactus Haiku
haiku : come into this world
be here, see, explore
an ocean wave rising up
come into this world
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Haiku : Love
you, grumpy dragon
sarcasm and cigarettes —
a kiss, shooting stars
haiku by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
He had just come in from a stakeout.
Senryu : chess
pulls the string, bolt soars rook’s encounter, harries pawns behold! the queen falls senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere Saturday Mix: Same Same but Different had a challenge on Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie to create prose or poetry […]
Senryu : in time, all things return to the sea
warnings went unheard all things return to the sea global warming melts senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere second life photo by M. LaFreniere, avatar Kayla Woodrunner
Senryu : Monkey Mountain
monkey zoo mountain
no fences; just food daily
wild ones love freebies
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Monkey Mountain
Senryu : Snippet from a Jungle rescue
Waving down a plane
Compact mirror’s a big help
when a tribe arrives
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So now we continue with another snippet from a WWII jungle rescue. Previously on our post, Gremlin’s Journey, the three survivors had reached the jungle
Senryu : Peeves
couples have their peeves he forgot to feed the bird! some things drive you nuts! senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere “Darn it, Winter! You forgot to feed the bird!” It’s in situations like this that […]
Senryu : Bite
don’t stay home, she said
he’s cute, go out for a bite
should have known better
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Senryu : Gremlin’s Journey
Gremlin Special crashed
mountain hid behind the clouds
only three survived
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note: running out of time, almost midnight so no pic. Was hoping to find a government one since it was a big event at the time but no luck on the National Archives catalog although I found a few WWII gremlin posters
Reading K Versus’s post about gremlins, I learned that during WWII pilots thought the little monsters were sent by their enemy to muck up the works. The government even created propaganda posters against them.
Looking up gremlins, I came across this crash/survival story:
On May 13, 1945, a group of 24 military folks, mostly from the Maintenance Division, took an afternoon sightseeing trip over Baliem Valley in Western Papua Guinea on Gremlin Special,a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. At that time, the maps marked the area unknown and the valley was nicknamed The Hidden Valley.