Last week I wrote a post, “The Power of Poetry“, and referenced John Paul Lederach, a Mennonite conflict mediator who likes to write meeting notes and trip reports in haiku form. He believes that the act of distilling information to a five-seven-five syllable format is a way to “capture the wonder of the human experience in the simplest of terms.”
After writing that post, I made a promise to myself to try my hand at poetry a bit more often, particularly using the haiku format. So here we go…
Time to check my stats
Hoping for one more comment
Oh well not today
Reading other’s posts
Impressed with how well they write
Hemingway, I’m not
Time to write my post
But I’m stuck with a blank page
Let me try haiku
Bloggers are the best
Always a kind word or two
Thank you for your thoughts
I just hit Publish
The words are no longer mine
Yikes, what have I done
Here is a comment. Hope it makes your day 😊
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thanks, Ray. nothing like a shameless plea for a comment or two 🙂
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Lol, these are great! 👍
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thanks!
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These were fun to read
The last one my favorite
You have found your niche
😃😃😃
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I see what you did there… quite clever!
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Ha ha. Very good. 😀 I wouldn’t worry about stats though. Slow and steady wins the race! The best things are always organic. ☘
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if slow and steady wins the race, I’m guaranteed to come out on top! 🙂
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i love this and am a huge fan of haiku
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thanks, Beth!
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Haha good one. Here’s a comment. And the words are still yours. We just get to enjoy them.
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thanks!
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I thought these were great, Jim. Sharing to my Facebook Poetry group.
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brave move; the group might ban you after sharing such nonsense! 🙂
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Omg I love these you definitely need to do more!!
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I usually resort to these when I have trouble coming up with something to write. Maybe I’ll be a bit ore proactive with some haikus…
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Definitely they are so fun to read!
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thanks!
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You’re welcome!
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The third one from the bottom is the best 😂
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thanks, Jessica!
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
:ORT-ORT-ORT-ORT-! 😀
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