PurplePTSD: Bye Ku Week For The Vikings—Get Your Verse On!

Press release from the PurplePTSD:

Joe Oberle

2021-10-20

The Vikings’ Bye Week is upon us and it is time to get creative. Not to design new plays or construct a different defensive approach; we’ll leave that for head coach Mike Zimmer and his charges. It is time for us to recharge our purple batteries with some creative writing because it is Vikings Bye-ku Week at Vikings Territory and purplePTSD.

If you have been here in the past, you’ll recall that every Vikings bye week we resurrect an old tradition that started with former Vikings Journal writer Bo Mitchell, which was picked up by myself at Vikings Journal and continues now here. It’s a bit of fun that gets us forgetting about the losses, dreaming of more wins and fires us up for more game action—which will be back on Halloween night against the Dallas Cowboys.

It is pretty simple. The traditional form of haiku we follow here is three lines that contain five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five again in the third. See below for some examples. Additionally, each bye-ku must be Vikings themed and include some reference to the “natural world.” Now, that can be many things, and we are not strict about it, but we hope you will try to include that reference within your three-lined verse. The fun is in the bye-kuing. See how we can make up words?

Just post yours in the comments on Facebook or email to byeku@purpleptsd.com. Or simply comment on Facebook on what you see here. Thanks and see you after the Halloween game.

Cardiac CousinsWeekly wins, dug from the dirtHe really like that?!!!!

Three last second winsVikes fans don’t know what to thinkFeel six feet under

Captain Clutch on boardHis confidence grows like weedsReaping wins from chaff

KJ’s number threeBut don’t give him open spaceHe will close you out

Zim on the hot seatHe likes living there just fineSpits more tobacco

Adam’s amazingCatches balls when covered tightHas hands like frog tongues

CJ’s got the movesWill Ham and egg with DalvinLeave you grasping air

Cook is chef’s surpriseHits the hole; heads to daylightTurf shards in his wake

Bend don’t break defenseZim’s crew grinding ev’ry gameClose to razor’s edge.

Joseph toes the turfKicks field goals and misses, tooZim dies some each time

Cowboys are scaryAt The Vault on Hallows EveTime to bury them

VT carries onThough our great friend Joe is goneHeaven is Purple 

This press release was produced by the PurplePTSD. The views expressed here are the author’s own.