Originally this was going to be exclusively about Haiku poetry, and me trying (and probably failing) to write it when bored in recent times.
But I signed into this for the first time in about a month (oops...) and realised that I hadn't checked the email account tied to this blog in a long while. So I did. For some reason, my Youtube account is tied to this, so I had a million emails for Youtube. Most of which were comments arguing with a political statement I made when commenting on a Vlogbrothers video. While I was perfectly prepared to argue about this a month ago, when I was full of fire about it and fully conscious, the best time to become aware that you must defend your politics in a heated debate that no one will come away from satisfied is NOT early on a Sunday morning after a stupidly late night. It just isn't. I might just leave the debating until tomorrow, when I'm awake. But I've left the debate for a month, shouldn't I fight my point? Ugh.
Out of curiosity, any opinions on the death of Osama Bin Laden? (I really shouldn't keep starting arguments...)
On a random tangent, anyone liking Vlogbrothers? I'm a proud (yet relatively new) Nerdfighter. Because they're awesome, and allow me to be a my nerdy self.
Anyway, Haiku! If you didn't know, Haikus (plural? Who can say?) are a form of Japanese poetry, which are 3 lines long. The first line has 5 syllables, the second 7 and the third 5 again. Originally in Japanese, some people write them in English. Like me. 'Cause I'm crap at Japanese :P
But there was a competition a week or so ago, that my Japanese teacher informed me of, for Haikus. I forgot about it, and missed the deadline. But I had written a few, and it's actually amazingly simple and fun trying to fit the syllables in. They're probably all awful, but it's still kind of fabulous :D
Anyway, here are some of them. Many were written in my last ever Maths class (more on that another time) because the teacher was trying to teach me things I already knew. And I'm an awful maths student. I hear numbers and my mind begins to wander. No, seriously O_o
Some were written about my last day of secondary school:
One day, forgotten.
Names gone, faces only blurs.
Right now, together.
Remembering all.
Cameras marking the end,
Afraid to forget.
Nostalgia and Sun
Makes the children we once were
Resurface in joy.
These two were about my old, adorable dog, sleeping on my mother's lap.
The dog grows older,
Sleeps often. But within dreams
A puppy runs, leaps.
(Don't love it, personally.)
The old dog twitches
and growls softly in sleep,
dreaming of the Chase.
(That one captures my dog better, I think xD)
Random:
Feathers float gently,
out of remembrance of flight
more than the faint breeze.
These shadows, hidden,
following me, shadows all
shadowing each step.
Someone else watches.
I can always tell, you know,
when I'm followed here.
The Unwelcome stand
alone, eyes pleading for love,
needing acceptance.
(for such a bad poem, you wouldn't believe how many variations there were...)
These are two I wrote yesterday, out on a walk in a mood of sudden, strange melancholy. I'm not entirely sure why, but I stared out at the iron grey sea for a long, long time, and had an urge to write down a poem. Therapeutic, I suppose. I had no pen, no paper, so I wrote them on my phone.
In rotten seaweed
there smells a strange, distinct smell
of isolation.
The pigeon towers
through their window each morning.
A part of childhood.
OK, that's my little poetry corner. Anyone (as if anyone was reading this xD) has any poetry they'd like to share? For one, I'm bored. Two, I'd like to see other amateur poetry, because maybe I'd learn how to do it xD. I like Haiku because it has such a strict rule of syllables, yet is short. They can be emotional, or meaningless, but still fun to write. A word game, of sorts (5 syllables!).
Anyway, please share! If anyone does, I'll post them up on the next blog :)
I might also post up a creepy poster I did for my art exam (well, the draft, anyway. The real one's being Examined, after all).
Until next time!
Kate
