Haiku

I have taken to writing haiku as I find it a very short and fulfilling way to rant about something in a curtailed and cultured way. Some things really annoy me but I feel if I were to try and write a blog article about them it would either be very short and pointless or be very long and rambling so I have decided to write haiku to fill the hole in my soul that is left by un-ranted subjects.

Haiku are Japanese ‘poems’ that have a total of 17 syllables that are arranged into 3 lines, the first of 5 syllables, the second of 7 and the third of 5. It is harder than it might seem and quite rewarding when you get it right. It is also a good way to increase your vocabulary as you sometimes have to look up new words to fill a gap.
I am going to post some of my haiku (Haiku sounds like it should be a plural but haikus is also acceptable as a plural) to the blog to lend it an air of culture although the subject matter might well counteract any culture.

One of my latest haiku is about an interview that Michael Portillo gave to the Guardian.

Portillo falls. Funny.
But from grace or from a wall?
Hoist by schadenfreude.