Writing Wednesday is a place for me to write whatever I want to write.
Have you heard of haiku? Maybe you know it is Japanese in origin, that it has three lines, that each line has a certain number of syllables(5-7-5), and that they it is traditionally about nature. Sure these poems that originated in the 1600s would seem to be just about painting a picture in one breath about some nature scene, but in reality the new haiku is whatever you want it to be about.
I was first introduced to haiku through the Central Utah Writing Project and BYU English Professor, Chris Crowe. He is a master of the haiku, having written an entire novel in haiku, but his most popular among the CUWPers(those who are members of the Central Utah Writing Project) is his Zombie Haiku. I hope one day he will publish them and all of us can enjoy them.
I do not write much zombie haiku but I do love writing haiku because it is short and I can write them even when tending to all of my children's needs, like the million times a day they ask for juice or snacks. Not that I don't love helping with those needs, it can just sometimes interrupt the writing process.
Anyway, here are a few of my favorite Haikus that I have written recently. Feel free to comment by writing your own haiku, I would love to read what you can come up with.
Correlation
With COVID-19
No toilet paper or food
Good! Correlation!
Ruining My Life
Coronavirus
Cancel, cancel everything!
You’re ruining my life.
Always Stealing
Whose honey is this?
Honey Badger never asks;
He’s always stealing.
