the smedley log - suburban scrawl

Restless suburban scrawl

Okay, not a great title, but I liked the alliteration.

I’ve been getting restless lately. Not restless in the sense of I need more to do, but restless in the sense that I just can’t settle on a focus for writing. As a result of that condition, I began a WordPress.com blog just to focus on one seemingly trivial practice: haiku.

Not highly evolved haiku, mind you, but haiku, none-the-less. Just a way to limit myself, which I keep thinking will help with the focus bit. One haiku a day, seventeen brief syllables, as a means of exhibiting some limited, twisted sense of self-discipline. I’ve vowed to write one for each day, like clockwork, and after two weeks, I think I may be losing interest. Already.

That pretty much spells out the focus issue, doesn’t it?

Howard, that’s clever
Interesting way to write
Congratulations.

Very cool idea, man. Poetry is compressed language, and haiku the most compressed. Cool new effort. Good thinking, indeed.

Well, that puts you pretty squarely in the better person than me camp…

I think I like the Sourblossom best. And I like the “Sorry” site too.

Frank,

Thanks. I appreciate the haiku response. And the compression of it all is what always appealed to me about poetry, though I can’t say I’ve exactly mastered the form…

Ellen,

Please don’t mistake a haiku a day for any sort of measure of superiority. And thanks for the Sourblossom compliment; I thought it a strange idea, but I’d been re-scribbling it for well over a week and it really started to grow on me (no pun intended).

I wish I could STOP focusing so intently… we need to swap some brain cells, lol.

I’d hate to see what your site would look like with some of my brain cells at the helm