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daily haiku

05.22.26
Fois (time, as in, one time, once, or twice, etc.)

Just one time, I’d like
you to get off your high horse
and join the peasants

The Story Behind Daily Haiku:

I meet with two other playwrights every Sunday morning at 7:15 a.m. for what we call “Accountability Club.” The intention is to have a weekly space in which to share new work, get feedback, and be personally accountable to the craft of writing. We had noticed that we were slipping in measuring up to accountability. Mood, work, lack of sleep, the need to do deep Ancestry.com research - the usual details of everyday living - were preempting actual writing.

In the spirit of recalibrating my accountability scale, I decided to write a Haiku every morning (except Sunday, a rest day) using this methodology: Pull out the dictionary, do a random flip-page-finger-point, and use the word chosen to build the verse. Since I no longer have an English dictionary, but I do have a French one (le Robert micro), the word is selected from there and translated into English. Kind of a nice way to review vocabulary, too.

What started as a writing intervention has now become a daily habit, grounding me first thing each day (well, most days) in the act of listening and receiving, a regular re-set of faith in the act and power of creativity.