Super Bowl Haiku Trios

February 2024

A Super Bowl-themed Poem

• Haiku Trio #1
So who said: “Winning
isn’t everything, it’s the
only thing” — always,

till today, brimming
with Super-football-frenzy-
-LVIII-Sunday,

I believed grinning
legendary Lombardi
coined the famed catchphrase •

• Haiku Trio #2
Google search says yes,
he voiced this, but different coach
spoke the saying first —

so since, as we guess,
it’s too easy to wrong-broach
and/or poach our thirst

for true words and mess-
-become-marvelous approach —
will You sure un-curse •

• Haiku Trio #3
“It’s a no-brainer” —
so says theist, pantheist
and atheist too —

“oh, to be saner,
just think as I do” (deist
also) — touchdown-true

real seems window-pane
clear? Thus we seem to profess
in midst of blue clues •

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• haiku • definition — a brief poem of three lines — with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line

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POETRY NOTES

• Poem Alert
This blog features five categories, including FAST Sonnets in Cyberspace — and yes, you’re right, the above poem is not a sonnet. However, since I’m not planning to introduce a new category called Haiku Trios in Cyberspace, this is the best place in the blog for a non-sonnet poem — let’s chalk it up to … poetic license.

• Prose Explanation Awaits
Much could be said about what I’m attempting to communicate in the above series of haiku trios — I hope to take time to explain in prose someday more explicitly, but for now, this pithier poetic expression will have to suffice.

• To Be Continued?
I’ll confess up front that I’ve failed to convey much of what I originally hoped to say, and I’m essentially dissatisfied with what I believe is a too-obscure message — yet I feel compelled and/or constrained to limit this haiku series to three sets of trios, and therefore I’ve run out of space. Yet here’s hoping I can continue exploring this theme with greater clarity someday in a follow-up series of haiku trios … or who knows, maybe even in a sonnet.

• Thanks for stopping by — and congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs on their trio of Super Bowl wins with QB Patrick Mahomes in 2020, 2023 and now in 2024. Oh, he is also a three-time Super Bowl MVP. The Chiefs have won four Super Bowls overall, their first coming in 1970.