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Adventure poems: Full time travel with kids in Haikus

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Hey friends! I was messing around with Haikus the other evening, and wrote a little series of adventure poems about our travel experience. I love Haikus- the weird lil’ stanzas of five, seven and five syllables- and they really suit the individual moments that make up a longer travel experience, and give a tiny insight into palavers and feelings that we’ve experienced.

Here ya go:

Adventure Poems: Our journey in Haikus

On mosquitoes

Mosquito bites me

What did I do to you though

Now I will squash you

On tuk tuks 

Tuk tuk driver swerves

Six of us in one tuk tuk

Will we be dead soon

On bugs

Something slithers up

Snake spider or cockroach?

Phew just a gecko

On the beach

For goodness sake kids

Can you put on your shoes please

I told you sand’s hot

On tanning

Thought was bronzing

Now I’m like a candy cane

No it’s not funny

On vegan food

Curried rice again

Or maybe rice and curry

Vegan choices here

On jellyfish stings

Watch out! Jellyfish!

Quick swim this way quickly Mum

I swam into it

On children we have met

Illuminating

Dearly made and loved

Precious diamonds in the rough

On flights with kids

What fresh hell is this

Thirteen hours in a tin can

Need eject button

On airport food

An apple- is it gold?

No so why is it two pounds

For this shrivelled thing

On co sleeping

The thing is my loves

I love you a ton always

But I love space, too

On visa rules

Do you really think

I’ll set up house with my kids

And never leave here?

On babies passports

Babies look the same

So it could be any kid

This is pretty dumb

On laundry

Can I please just get

My clothes washed dried and returned

Without the iron holes

On the Thai airways check in staff we dealt with on Christmas Eve

Those evil robots

Immune to all emotion

Thanks for nothing guys

On missing people

Little bits of heart

Travelling around with us

Can’t wait to see you

On translation issues in Thailand 

Miming a period

Not a highlight of my life

Got tampons though, win.

On fussing over the kids

What would happen, hmm?

If I grabbed their cheeks tightly

How do you like it?

On sand

Is there anything

More annoying and grainy

Than this golden curse

On selling everything

Blessing or burden

Things and ‘stuff’ can weigh you down

Miss hair straighteners though

On starting yoga

Do I look well cool?

This does not feel natural

Look like drunk pretzel

On the adventure

Have any regrets?

Absolutely not, it’s fab

You only live once

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uk homeschooling coachWelcome! My name is Hannah and I’m a home education parent and coach. I’ve been home educating for 11 years and I provide information about home education, unschooling & gentle parenting. I also backpacked Asia for a year with my kids when they were 6, 5 and 2! Find out more about us here.

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