While hardly as prolific or as interesting as Bobby Shaftoe in my beloved Cryptonomicon (if you haven't read Neal Stephenson's awesome book yet, fix that ASAP!), I nonetheless have found that since I made myself this place to post it, I started writing a lot more haiku. :-) (Then I stopped... or at least have been on a long hiatus...) It's largely related to seasonal observations or scenes from nature, because... well, I'm not sure. I think I need to research that. :-) That's what haiku are supposed to be about, right?
The haiku are grouped onto pages based on when I wrote them and what they are about; each knot on the left links to a page of haiku described on the right. In chronological order by original writing date: |
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I had undergone a big haiku day in May 2002, and I picked a few of the better ones (inspired by spring and lack of sleep). |
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I was recently was trying to think positively about the winter; these are haiku inspired by a long winter and bitter cold, written in Feb 2003. |
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It finally looked like spring was here. We had some outings and saw spring sights. Then winter returned, complete with frost and snow and cold. These are haiku so inspired, written 01 Apr 2003. |
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And then it happened again... the weekend was warm and bright, we began Daylight Savings Time, and Monday morning came dark and sleeting and awful. Composed a few haiku in the car. Realizing that this might keep continuing, I put these up on couple on a separate page but will add to that page if the need arises. Haiku inspired by more incongruous weather, written 07 Apr 2003. Four more, inspired by the entire dreary nasty week of temperatures in the 40s and rain rain rain written 10 April and added to the same page. |
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Eventually even the most ridiculous of seasons has to end, and spring, true spring, finally arrived. And inspired still more haiku, since it's becoming something of a coping mechanism apparently, written in mid-April. |
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Quite a hiatus -- apparently the summer melts my brain. :-) The first hints of fall sparked one haiku and a couple pieces that I couldn't squish into haiku... think it's the first non-haiku poetry I've ever written other than for an assignment in school -- if you can even call it poetry. ;-) |
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Added one more on 11 Oct to the same page. |
