A random poem... "You should date an illiterate girl"

I love this poem... Thanks to Chris Huet for sharing it on facebook.

https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z12yehr5tqriexyvh22ys5ca0yzwtz1xe04

haiku challenge - continued

I've really enjoyed doing the haiku challenge in July.

Now that it's August 1st, I just feel like continuing. I'll dig up some quotes and see what happens.

Since I did a Joseph Campbell quote yesterday, and there are lots of quotes of his around, I will continue for a while and see where it goes.

today's quote: "God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that." ~Joseph Campbell

God is an idea
ponder on The metaphor
expect no answers

Haiku challenge, bonus haiku

Joseph Campbell is an inspiration to me. I've you've never read or heard of him, I would suggest "The Power of Myth" DVD, a few hours of interviews with the man. It changed my life.

“Regrets are illuminations come too late.” ~Joseph Campbell

My haiku:
do you have regret?
Regrets always come too late
but that can't be helped

Haiku challenge, day 31

today's quote:

The taste
    of rain
– Why kneel? ~Jack Kerouac

My haiku:

when dark clouds hover,
the sky reaches for delight.
denied, it cries tears

Haiku challenge, day 30

Today's seed: "To begin writing haiku, and to make progress to any significant extent, requires two gifts: the ability to be alert to the subtleties of sensory or psychological experience (i.e. to notice things); and a sensitivity to the subtleties of language (i.e. to be able to express things). However it isn't necessary to know that you possess these gifts before beginning to write: the gifts are very often revealed – and developed – in the writing. The haiku path is an unfolding process of discovery , and the only magic words of access are the words of each haiku that you read and write. If there is some special or exceptional condition called 'haiku mind' then I, for one, don't have it. As far as I'm concerned, there are as many haiku minds as there are readers and writers of haiku." ~Martin Lucas, Stepping Stones: a way into haiku

Today's haiku:
I would like haiku
taught in precise, succinct ways
haiku like teaching

Haiku Challenge, day 29

Today's seed: “The only reason for wanting to be a writer is because you love doing it. All the rest is confetti.” ~Susan Hill

My haiku:
the only reason
why we would do anything
is because of love

Haiku challenge, day 28

Today's seed: “The richer our sensory environment and the greater our freedom to explore it, the more intricate will be the patterns for learning, thought and creativity.” ~Carla Hannaford

My haiku:
build up your senses
so you can learn everything
in the smallest glance