write haiku
If you type haiku
with little thought, maybe you
shouldn’t haiku, Stu.
Seriously, maybe you shouldn’t. It is a form like any other, but when it is uninspired and plastered down with a bunch of fortune cookie like advice, it loses its poetic effectiveness. Poetry, after all, is about saying the most with the least amount of words, there is no difference in the haiku. Great poetry makes the most ordinary of activities seem foreign, and the most foreign activities seem normal. If you need to write an addendum explaining why you saw a leaf that looked like a heart and how it made you haiku, perhaps you should write a different form. It isn’t hard, after all, to organize any words into a haiku like format, that’s the easy part, let’s not forget.
Times like these, when lights
grow dim. I reach out to you
and my world expands.
Missed Connections are filled with good, bad, and harshin’-your-mello-haiku. Did you write one? Did you find one? Even if your name isn’t Stu, email the link to Lovelorn Poets! We’ll preserve those great-or-not-so-great-syllables for all eternity.
