Kooser says you need to be willing to really look at the world around you and Einstein would agree:
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. — Albert Einstein
In every work of genius, we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
NaPoWriMo.net suggested using social media to write about your friends and what they post. I’m just using it as a haiku starting point. The night is young!
@MattVilmany
Today is a Haiku Day
Not a Hiking Day!Happy Haiku Day!
@bohemian21
write five seven five!a haiku for you
oh, @cathyneriquilts
crazy cat ladyGrace Check, Hugh Yeman
I met you on facebook first
through Naomi Lloyd
I’m still reading Ted Kooser and he mentions several times to leave out words that the reader can fill in. Also, he suggests using details and connections that will be new and interesting to the reader and to use the details that make the reader know that you were really there, not just giving the info anyone could look up or know.
Here, some haiku-ic reminders.
an image, a blink
the detail that catches you
and just won’t let go.what to write about?
when you’re paying attention,
whatever’s at hand.leave out all the words
that the readers can fill in
show them some new things.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
