Alan Is Good

Let me explain Haiku Monday.

I enjoy being creative, but I’ve been criticized for having a creative gut. When you don’t exercise your creative muscles, you get soft, and your craft suffers. In early 2007 I had a personal renaissance so to speak, and found nifty ways to keep the proverbial saw as sharp as possible.  Being a PR/marketing professional should go hand in hand with constantly experimenting with the industry’s most important tool, the English language.

One of those strides was Haiku Monday. The system is simple enough, write a haiku poem every Monday about whatever is going on that day or that week.  Sometimes they come out worldly and with mass appeal, and other times they are obscure and you will only understand the message if you know me personally.

I write in the 5-7-5 syllable scheme, which is on par with the Japanese syllable scheme.  The American haiku tends to follow a 3-5-3 scheme, Which would have saved me 300 syllables a year…  Well.  I need all the extra syllables, I find it hard enough to condense an idea into 5-7-5 as it stands.  3-5-3 is a bit artsy for me, personally.  Whats going on with those 3 syllable lines?  For every 3-5-3 with a deep and profound meaning, there are 14 others that just cruise by on the fact that 3 syllable lines can’t coherently convey THAT much.

No offense to any 3-5-3 aficionados out there, of course.

I’m sure your

Haiku is complete

And makes sense

I plan on archiving Haiku Monday on my Twitter account and here on the blog from now on.  I did secure tinyurl.com/haikumonday for archiving needs, but somewhere in the Summize/Twitter Search buyout they don’t seem to archive tweets older than three or four months ago.  So its a short list now.  I’ll figure out the best way to archive most of the haiku from the past two years.

That’s all for now as it pertains to Haiku Monday.  Here is this week’s:

January 26th, 2009

An era of change

To embrace the infinite

And invite the strange