Just like people have 'comfort food' - the dish they go to when they need something that reminds them of home or happier days, or just when they aren't feeling particularly creative about cooking dinner, or because the comfort food is based on things that are always in the pantry, fridge or freezer - I've decided that I have a 'comfort creative outlet', namely the haiku.
I first learned of haiku at the Ministry of Supervision course - about fifteen years ago. I remember an afternoon where we were given various options to draw upon (pun sort of intended) the other side of our brain. Someone described the five, seven, five pattern of this kind of Japanese verse and I was hooked. I don't write them all the time, but every once in a while when I need to explore things a bit differently - and escape the prose which is my normal style of writing, I will put my mind to work on the minimalist exercise of writing some.
I wrote some haiku at GC40 last summer when commissioners were also asked to do something creative. It must have been of interest to someone because haiku got a mention in the reporting back the next day.
So, I once again call upon my 'comfort creative outlet'. It is time again to pare some thoughts from the day, and some events of the week into seventeen syllables each:
This week's glimpse of God:
A lenten epiphany:
It's relationship!
Just like what to writeThe photo quest does vex me
I know - a hydrant!
Facebook and Twitter
Community builders both
but so is Worship!
Twitter and Facebook
a place to get together
just like coffee time!
Read "Iona Dawn"
My Holy Week discipline
Can I handle two?
"Six word story" time
The prose version of haiku
I'll try tomorrow.
Look for things to say
Counting out the syllables
five more and you're done!
Good night followers
This list of poems complete
Now I can go sleep....
Yellowknife,
March 26, 2010
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