26 Comments
User's avatar
David Perlmutter's avatar

So when and how did it become a euphemism for skipping school?

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

So when I was looking for the origin of hooky, hooky, I came across “hoekje” which is the Dutch word for hide and seek and seems to be the origin of playing hooky.

Expand full comment
David Perlmutter's avatar

Another corrupted Dutch word in English...

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

English etymology is so fun, we steal words from everyone 😂

Expand full comment
Theresa Greene's avatar

Playing hooky or

Shouting hooky hooky makes

Me want a hookah

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Fantastic!

Expand full comment
Theresa Greene's avatar

😁

Expand full comment
Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Haha! That's a fun one... 😎

Expand full comment
M. N. Tarrint's avatar

Swung across the sky

The moon a silver cold scythe

Winter sleep descends

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Gorgeous! I really love that middle line🖤

Expand full comment
M. N. Tarrint's avatar

Thank you!

Expand full comment
Chris J. Franklin's avatar

A voice in the dark,

Said, "Hooky, hooky", and then,

We heard the blades swish... 😎

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Next blockbuster Halloween movie!

Expand full comment
Chris J. Franklin's avatar

Yes! It would make a great slasher movie, for sure. And people like a snappy catchphrase. Haha... 😎👍

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Ha! Hey remember me when you’re famous!

Expand full comment
Chris J. Franklin's avatar

It would be hilarious if people started getting movies out of things like these. They'd have to get a new category at The Oscars. 'Best Adapted Prompt'! Haha... 😎👍

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

😂

Expand full comment
Songsterfunsterhamster's avatar

We harvest in arcs

Curved slicing sickles and scythes

And hark to the hooks

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

This is so good, I love how the rhythm and imagery work together🖤

Expand full comment
A.P. Murphy's avatar

Playing hooky, we

ran to the field, Mark n' me -

where the hooks caught him

?

Hooks for hands, scarecrow

monsters snatched poor Mark away -

never had a chance, boy

??

So you ask me, but

that's the truth of why he's gone -

cross my hooks, hope t'die...

???

Boys n' girls beware,

learn from the fate of hook'd Mark,

snagged in a dawn field

?????????

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

🙌I think you may have invented a new, better feldgeister.

Expand full comment
Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Sickle sells, scythes tell

Threshed great grain hook

Handles hold weight gains.

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Sounds unhealthy🖤

Expand full comment
Richard Blaisdell's avatar

Try it if you need to gain weight.

Expand full comment
Gloria Horton-Young's avatar

HONEYGLOOM ~

What if Hooky, Hooky was also a dance?

♾️ Richard Wright

Feet stomp on the earth,

“Hooky, hooky” rings like bells—

we dance the crops home.

♾️ Sonia Sanchez

Hooky, hooky rise,

our feet remember the songs,

rhythm in the grain.

♾️ Jack Kerouac

Bare feet in the mud,

“Hooky, hooky,” laugh and spin—

sickle in the wind.

♾️ Michael Dylan Welch

In the barn we dance—

“Hooky, hooky” fills the air,

cornstalks bow and bend.

♾️ Cor van den Heuvel

Lanterns swinging high,

we dance in circles, laughing—

“Hooky, hooky” hums.

♾️ Nick Virgilio

Our hands full of grain,

we twirl, “hooky, hooky” cries—

moonlight in the hay.

♾️ Fay Aoyagi

At twilight we dance,

“Hooky, hooky” shakes the air,

dust rises like ghosts.

♾️ David G. Lanoue

Fiddles play loud now,

“Hooky, hooky” skips with joy—

the earth feels our steps.

♾️ Kala Ramesh

In the circle we—

chant “hooky, hooky” and dance—

grains swirl at our feet.

Expand full comment
Honeygloom's avatar

Oh! Now I want it to be a dance! What a beautiful take🖤

Expand full comment