A local poet I follow on Mastodon posted something about WriteOut which sounded to me like a fun excuse to write some haiku. For many years, I wrote haiku nearly every day. In the past few years, however, I’ve written fewer. But I decided I could write them more often during the three week period.
I’d kinda meant to write one every day, but in the end I only wrote five. Still, it was a lot of fun.
During the period when I was writing haiku most frequently, I decided to publish a chapbook: Poŝtmarkoj el Esperantujo. I enjoyed the experience enough that I made several more. I still use the artwork from my books to supplement the posts here. But, for various reasons, I mostly quit writing haiku and have only written them occasionally over the past several years.
Writing haiku has always been for me, like a moment of zen. I mostly don’t write haiku except from direct experience. Writing them gives me a chance to look at the things around me and just be present in the moment. It was fun to recapture that experience.
I can’t say I’ll start writing more haiku. But maybe. And maybe when #writeout rolls around next year, I’ll do it again.
