My tropical vacation dreams began to snap, crackle, pop when a mysterious caller milked my ear with the news, “You have won a trip on the Kellogg’s Caribbean Cruise line. The reduced price is a special, ‘k, and includes the total luxury cruise experience.” Crazy cocoa puffs! I was gonna enjoy drinks fruity, pebbles between my toes, and sun on my face.
A few weeks later, I was boarding the good ship, Lucky Charm; recently commissioned by Gen. Mills of the Chex navy. At the top of the gangway, we were greeted by our uniformed (uninformed?) Cap’n Crunch wearing a pirate’s hat. Passengers spread out across the deck to wave “Cheerio” to friends on the dock. As we were leaving port, I noticed the life rings looked unnervingly like giant froot loops and the inflatable rafts rather like puffed wheat.
At our first port of call, I felt thirsty so joined the queue at the island cider shack, Apple Jack’s. Back on board, I listened to a live country music band, the Corn Flakes, just for kix. They played their #1 hit, Harvest Crunch, but the lead singer’s voice was too husky for my taste. After a fabulous buffet meal featuring crab alpha, bits of caviar, sushi, and other sole food, we were entertained by a magician doing trix with silly rabbits. I decided to retire to my bunk early.
awakened by noise
fear of cereal killer
on mystery ship
Haibun in response to Lillian’s fantastical noodling poetics at dVerse Poets!
a poem in my pocket 
May 21, 2018 @ 17:21:39
🌟🌟🌟🌟🏆👍-JW 😉
May 21, 2018 @ 20:52:05
Thank you for the stars & award! 😉
May 22, 2018 @ 01:25:48
You are ever-so-welcome!-JW
May 17, 2018 @ 08:37:46
Well done! This is so amusing and your concluding haiku is hilarious 😆
May 17, 2018 @ 09:12:08
Thanks for reading, Janice!
May 17, 2018 @ 07:58:07
So funny… loved your kind of ‘allegory’ descriptions.. Diane
May 17, 2018 @ 09:11:33
Thanks, Diane 🙂
May 17, 2018 @ 03:00:17
Ha.. that would be a wonderful cruise if it hadn’t been that pesky cereal killer.
May 17, 2018 @ 09:10:34
😉
May 17, 2018 @ 02:50:08
kaykuala
How nice to be cruising on a Cruise ship. Hilarious, love the humor lynn!
Hank
May 17, 2018 @ 09:32:10
Thanks for stopping by for smiles!
May 16, 2018 @ 20:45:12
Loved the Cereal Killer at the end!! A big smile for sure!
Dwight
May 16, 2018 @ 21:26:40
Glad you liked it, Dwight 🙂
May 16, 2018 @ 15:59:34
So clever!
May 17, 2018 @ 20:11:42
Thanks, Linda!
May 16, 2018 @ 14:25:22
Very nice. I liked this combination: ” uniformed (uninformed?)”
May 16, 2018 @ 15:06:25
I paused and realized spelling was almost identical…fun with words 🙂
May 16, 2018 @ 12:30:10
This is funny and fantastic! I love it!
May 16, 2018 @ 15:05:34
Thanks for reading!
May 16, 2018 @ 11:01:21
Oh MY GOSH!!!! I am laughing out loud. Finally stopped only to read it out loud to my husband who is also now guffawing!! You made my day. Hilarious! I think you should post this again, very early on, for a Thursday OLN so you’ll get lots and lots of readers 🙂 It is so very well done!!! So glad you had fun with this one….This is just GREAT! 🙂 Loved the idea inflatable rafts looking like puffed wheat and the uniformed (uninformed) Cap’n Crunch. HILARIOUS!
May 16, 2018 @ 11:03:36
Thanks, Lillian…it was a great prompt. SO much FUN!! Glad you and your hubby got a good laugh 😀
May 16, 2018 @ 11:04:40
Oh we really really did! 🙂