sudden thunder
dad’s anger a dark cloud
lightning sears my ear
My Dad was from the old school, such as you read of in Oliver Twist, where boxing a child’s ears was meant to improve hearing and slapping them on the head would “smarten them up” or “knock some sense into them.” And you didn’t always get any forewarning, either. First the smack, then the explanation of why.
My mom-in-law talked of one of her brothers who suffered lifelong hearing damage because teachers regularly boxed pupils’ ears. I don’t think children should go undisciplined, but I’m glad those days are gone.
The Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning: LIGHTNING
I’ll confess, I’ve often spelled the LIGHTNING that zips across the sky like the LIGHTENING that the sky does at dawn. Which isn’t so far wrong, because lightning does lighten the sky. But now I’ve looked it up and I see that one definition of lighten is to give out flashes of lightning. So I’m not too far out.
Searching through my Dropbox to see what I might have as a response to today’s prompt, I came across a file of a dozen or so need-to-be-polished haiku verses, including the one above. So I’ll polish and post a few more.
Christine's Collection 
Ear boxing wasn’t around when I was kid thankfully, but at school, we were hit with a bamboo cane on the hand or the back-side if we were naughty!
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I am surprised! Having read Oliver Twist, I thought boxing ears was a British thing. However, Dad F’s parents were from Glasgow, so maybe it was a Scottish practice? No canes here in Canada in my time.
Thanks for your comment.
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Made me think of Jimmy Stewart’s character, whose name elude’s me, in that famous Christmas movie, whose name eludes me. Getting old.
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It’s a Wonderful Life. George something.
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Well I can’t remember, either, so that makes two of us. 🙂
I also forgot to add the sugar to the cake I made last week. Shoved it in the oven, turned around, and there was the cup of sugar, still on the counter! 😦
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Ha! Oh, the joys of aging! Kirby? Was it George Kirby?
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Thats a wonderful, Haiku.
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Thank you. 🙂
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Bailey! it was George Bailey 🙂
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