It was 5 years ago today that I first started the Invasive Species Weblog. It took less than a week after that for the puns and general snarkiness to start leaking in. Thank you, readers, for all the visits, comments and post suggestions. Five feels old in internet years!
How will I be celebrating this 5-year-bloggiversary? By getting a root canal. :-( While I am hopped up on Valium and being tortured by my endodontist, I thought I would hold a contest:
Write me an Invasive Species Haiku and post it below. Best one wins the author a prize.
I'll start:
For you, dear readers
Invasive Species Weblog
Full of aliens
17 comments:
I'm not up for haiku right now, but do want to wish you a happy blogiversary -- you were one of the blogs that prompted me to start myself, a fact that might inspire more snarkiness when readers find you are partly responsible for my drivel!
Five internet years
for Jennifer Forman Orth.
Human years? Don't say.
Monk Parakeets are
Brooklyn's most charismatic
invasive species.
Outside my window,
starlings, sparrows and pigeons.
More fun with haiku.
Invasive critters
Plants, birds, fish, mollusks galore
Five years of helping
Cuscuta. Dodder
Pale, alien spaghetti.
I will eat your trees.
{Cuscuta japonica has destroyed trees in Houston)
M. Reed
Advanced in science
Stuck in Middle School humor
Nice combination
Assessing myself
I find my love for this blog
Is most troubling
This faithful reader
Must conclude the invasion
Has taken your mind
Sent from the future
To warn us about dangers
Jenn is a robot
Loosestife never loses
Barberrians at the gate
Welcome to Weed World
Remorseless vetch climbs
Pale spring colors reach for sun
Green and purple sea
Scented flowers lure
Strangles garden beloved
Eradicate thee
-Dominic S.
Oooppss... forgot to add the title
Japanese Honeysuckle
Scented flowers lure
Strangles garden beloved
Eradicate thee
-Dominic S
Hard to get across
Wicked inconvenience;
Invasive species
Congratulations on the blogiversary!
(Not so much on the root canal.)
Insipid encroachment
relentless creative destruction
homo sapiens
winter blooms bright yellow
broom, acacia, and sorrel
drive out monkey flower
Lantana flowers
In the middle of the bush
Australia weeps
Veligers in water
floating toward
a ship in ballast
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