haiku : booshi
"Booshi" is Japanese for "hat." I'm not sure anymore, but I think this series all started because of the word "wimple."
a turned-down derby
added style to weathered face
and five gold-capped teeth
broad-brimmed floppy hat
red as the ripe tomato
strutting under it
blue beret inclined
over one brow, his lips pursed
obvious French kitsch
rakish Stetson sits
on bridge of nose of sleeper
snoring in the sun
abandoned in haste
a flowered Easter bonnet
visited by bees
instinctive new beau
her fondness she shows for a
distinctive chapeau
cantankerous coot
the ol’ cowboy won’t remove
his hat for haircut
Holmes’ dark silhouette
but for the pipe you’re not sure
which way he’s facing
tiny black bowler
parodied atop Stan’s head
precariously
ostrich-feather plume
signals her emergence soon
from behind the fence
without color-matched
tennis visor the entire
outfit falls apart
sunglasses, red fez
unhidden dagger glinting
provoked will slit you
it’s quite a topper
amazing how it stays on
chased by lovestruck girls
tophat leading tails
the couple brought up in the rear
by bustled caboose
beard and fedora
not distinguishing features
of nude gent in park
big chief’s new headress
very big disappointment
when feathers fell out
green headgear of crew
rowing in a row looked like
five peas in a pod
“high-hat” attitude
no match for his low quotient
of intelligence
hooded Eskimo
fur-framed face grinning proudly
five seal save village
dockman’s woolen cap
conceals smokes and a matchbox
funny-looking lumps
fisherman’s foul cap
now displays two kinds of flies
some alive, some not
a white couvre-chef
gave away his profession
but not much talent
young king’s circlet crown
squeezed wisdom from swelling head
no Solomon he
can’t see his feet, thus
this night the helmet protects
his aching stubbed toes
maid’s linen wimple
life’s pleasures oft this simple:
smile, blush and dimple
high steeple hennin
made petite princess taller
… still, problem kissing
steeple hennin point
used like charging rhino horn
m’lady’s angered!
escoffion’d she
regal bedecked… horns widespanned
in her door bestuck
new beaver felt glides
two sizes too big downslides
hides eyes when he rides
feather in his cap
plucked from a grand falcon who
swooped and claimed it back
cocked hat or tricorne
the Minuteman’s locks were shorn
cold head now hat’s torn
a permanent “do”
used too much sticky pomade
head/hair/hat now one
soft cotton mobcap
chambermaid’s quick substitute
for mop forgotten
Napoleon’s head
rarely seen on battlefield
sans trademark bicorne
snores like howling wind
stocking cap flutters on face
blown out… it falls back
man with chimney-pot
had to ventilate stove smoke
used hat as stovepipe
Victorian poke
bonnet employed this Spring day
as flower basket
Hamburger’s homburg
in hand waving flies away
from fresh Berliner
handsome straw boater
fortunately’s a floater
blown off into lake
balmy baudy day
sun-kissed blonde in panama
hat was all she wore
added style to weathered face
and five gold-capped teeth
broad-brimmed floppy hat
red as the ripe tomato
strutting under it
blue beret inclined
over one brow, his lips pursed
obvious French kitsch
rakish Stetson sits
on bridge of nose of sleeper
snoring in the sun
abandoned in haste
a flowered Easter bonnet
visited by bees
instinctive new beau
her fondness she shows for a
distinctive chapeau
cantankerous coot
the ol’ cowboy won’t remove
his hat for haircut
Holmes’ dark silhouette
but for the pipe you’re not sure
which way he’s facing
tiny black bowler
parodied atop Stan’s head
precariously
ostrich-feather plume
signals her emergence soon
from behind the fence
without color-matched
tennis visor the entire
outfit falls apart
sunglasses, red fez
unhidden dagger glinting
provoked will slit you
it’s quite a topper
amazing how it stays on
chased by lovestruck girls
tophat leading tails
the couple brought up in the rear
by bustled caboose
beard and fedora
not distinguishing features
of nude gent in park
big chief’s new headress
very big disappointment
when feathers fell out
green headgear of crew
rowing in a row looked like
five peas in a pod
“high-hat” attitude
no match for his low quotient
of intelligence
hooded Eskimo
fur-framed face grinning proudly
five seal save village
dockman’s woolen cap
conceals smokes and a matchbox
funny-looking lumps
fisherman’s foul cap
now displays two kinds of flies
some alive, some not
a white couvre-chef
gave away his profession
but not much talent
young king’s circlet crown
squeezed wisdom from swelling head
no Solomon he
can’t see his feet, thus
this night the helmet protects
his aching stubbed toes
maid’s linen wimple
life’s pleasures oft this simple:
smile, blush and dimple
high steeple hennin
made petite princess taller
… still, problem kissing
steeple hennin point
used like charging rhino horn
m’lady’s angered!
escoffion’d she
regal bedecked… horns widespanned
in her door bestuck
new beaver felt glides
two sizes too big downslides
hides eyes when he rides
feather in his cap
plucked from a grand falcon who
swooped and claimed it back
cocked hat or tricorne
the Minuteman’s locks were shorn
cold head now hat’s torn
a permanent “do”
used too much sticky pomade
head/hair/hat now one
soft cotton mobcap
chambermaid’s quick substitute
for mop forgotten
Napoleon’s head
rarely seen on battlefield
sans trademark bicorne
snores like howling wind
stocking cap flutters on face
blown out… it falls back
man with chimney-pot
had to ventilate stove smoke
used hat as stovepipe
Victorian poke
bonnet employed this Spring day
as flower basket
Hamburger’s homburg
in hand waving flies away
from fresh Berliner
handsome straw boater
fortunately’s a floater
blown off into lake
balmy baudy day
sun-kissed blonde in panama
hat was all she wore