How to Write a Haiku.

This isn’t about Haiku, but I feel like things need titles. Also, maybe I have been
thinking about Haiku. Maybe there will in fact be a lot of Haiku happening.

Something comforting about a set of rules that have to be followed but can produce
so many different results.

Fun fact: The plural of Haiku is Haiku.

I'll start with something funny.

Haiku Is Easy

But Sometimes They Don’t Make Sense

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I think the point I want to make with these is that I have rules. I am pretty flexible and of course I have
bent them. I just don’t want to if I can avoid it. I don’t want to be mean to myself or hurt myself or do self-
destructive things. I would very much like to stop punishing myself for all the things that have
happened.

Some Girls Can't Run Fast

Sometimes There Is Nowhere Safe

It Is Not Her Fault

See the rules are easy. Not even hard to be precise. To say exactly what you want.

Pain All Consuming

Love Confused With Fear And Hate

Wanting A Kind Touch

Maybe a bit contrite, but that isn’t the point either. This is for me. No one has to like them. I don’t have
to like them, but there is something nice about forcing the feelings to follow the rules.

Hate The Word Trigger

It Does Feel Like Getting Shot

Always Open Wound

Drugs are against the rules. I pretended like drinking didn’t count but now I see it should. No drinking
or drugs it not a bad rule. I don’t feel bad for saying no. I can say no.

Always Have To Choose

I Would Never Have Left Her

I Don’t Have To Run

I am so afraid. All the time, but it never stops me from putting myself in danger or from subjecting
myself to pain or hatred. I don’t know if I believe it is what I deserve. It is how I treat myself though.
I am working one it.

I Feel Everything

A Monster Comes In The Night

Then I Feel Nothing

My haiku might need some work. That last one was dark am I right? Dreams can’t really hurt you.
I know that. Real things hurt you. Real people hurt you. Dreams can’t do anything.

The First Hit Marks Me

Light Skin Darkens In Response

Reminders To Fight

The most interesting thing about a bruise is that sometimes they look worse when they are healing.
Sometimes the ones that hurt the most never make it to the surface. And sometimes the ones that
look the worst didn’t hurt at all.

Living In A Fog

Sleeping All Day And All Night

Just Another Trap

I don’t really have the energy or the desire to hate anyone. Or really even to be mad. Lucky for me
that includes myself. I don’t hate myself. Really never have. Mild dislike. Apathy is by far a bigger
problem for me than anger or hate.

Lazy Day And Night
Days Weeks Years Pass Unnoticed
Then There Was Day One

I am not going to explain all these right now. I just wanted to write them. Okay, I think maybe that is
enough. Well, just one more. How to write a Haiku.

Five Syllables Here
Seven More Syllables Here
Are You Happy Now?

Hope you can all share in my new love of Haiku. ;)

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