From my "Carolina" notebook comes the following list:
Turntable
Going out tonight
Groundhog
Mondegreen
When I came across this list recently, I stared for a long time at the word "mondegreen." What did it mean? Did I actually write that? Is it a real thing? The word was very legible, written in my own hand, yet I had no idea what it meant or why I might have written it. So I typed "mondegreen" into a browser window and learned--or apparently, relearned--that a mondegreen is a mishearing of a phrase, often a song lyric or a poem. For example:
A blessing in the skies
The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
I pledge allegiance to the flag and a nice day to America
The list in my Carolina notebook is followed by four haiku about a winter night, one of which employs the words "Groundhog" and "Goin' out tonight."
The snow falls gently
piling up to the rafters
in my living room
The snowplow passes
Its rumble fades in the night
It passes again
The crunch of footsteps
Aint nothin' but a groundhog
Goin' out tonight.
Poetry prompt: Write a haiku that employs a mondegreen.
Being a Nerd, I tend to look up lyrics I am unsure of - so not much experience with "Mondegreens". I tried to dredge one up from memory, but failed.