March Results!

My initial goal for the March challenge was to write and post a haiku for each day of the month. The end results was to commit to a task daily, exercise my creative muscle and as a reflection of my daily life. I find that sometimes people, including myself, get caught up in the daily chores of life that we miss the beauty and tend to remember the banality.

There were some doubts going into this challenge. Would I forget to commit? Would I have anything to write about? Would I get distracted and fail to write? Was this a pointless challenge?

Challenge Result: PASSED

Analysis:

This challenge turned out much better/profitable than I had expected. While I found that I didn't write as much about my daily surroundings I did find that I now had a creative outlet that I had been missing to express various thoughts and feelings. Many of the haikus enabled me to vent frustrations and express those frustrations about myself, other people, certain relationships, work, among other things. It also enabled me to express my appreciation and love for friends and family. I've always loved metaphors, and being able to say things, I sometimes can't say directly. This may be a cop out, but its my tribute to them, most of the haikus were very personal, and unashamedly honest.

This challenge really enabled me to begin the blogging processes, and connect with others. One haiku was just adapted into a song, and another one might by another talented musician.

Stand out favorites for me include:
Reprise
Above & Below
Weapon of Choice (recently adapted into a song!)

Thank you to everyone that gave me feedback. You're critiques and appreciation are always welcome, appreciated, and respected.

Reprise

Right again mentor
Is this going to hurt me?
Help me and I'll try

Headed south again
At least I’m driving this time
Nothings changed but me

Was meant to be nice.
But things turned around somehow
I hope you're all right

Did you not realize?
The secrets I should have shared
Would not have helped us

Could you have cared less?
Because it seems you couldn’t
Is that what you meant?

Knowing my follies
Or thinking that you know them
You don't have me pegged.

Not going away
This city is big enough
I don't mind sharing

What we did last night
Why won’t they come and join us
Or tell us the truth.

There are so many
Yet we're found looking for more
There's something wrong here!

Going by birth name
You going to do the same?
Calm down it's a game

Growing to grow up
Was meant to only pain me
I hope you’re all right.

Please don't stop talking
Smile, I need some sunshine too
You hope I’m all right?

Why did I bother?
So much pudding but no proof
Dancing days are through.

Teach me to be me.
I want to thank my sister
How can I explain?

Lets be gentlemen
Running around playing roles.
Or you want them to?

I won't let this be.
Tired of watching us sit
As it all happens

How many friends go?
Before you think something’s wrong,
with how you choose life

And what about those
If you want to look like that
We'll treat you like that

Was it our fault then?
Pushing them to reclusion
How can we sleep tight?

I hope you're alright
Sorry it took me so long
I hope you're all right.

Not going to float
Not going to live their life
Wasted potential

They said I was right
Do you want to prove me wrong?
Victory feels good.

Did you hear him speak?
Then what's the excuse for crime
Selfish First Degree

Why do you forget?
How the opus made you feel
After curtain call.

It's not that easy
But we can find the answer
If we lose our self.

You know you are right
Do you want to prove me wrong?
Just to feel better?

When we go to sleep.
Someones right, someones wrong, but,
What's the difference?

F&F

So down with tonight,
didn't have to fake a smile.
With the true tonight.

Not a character.
Little blue but not taboo.
We see eye to eye.

Latest polls are out,
a sixty percent decrease.
Couldn't be more thrilled.

Still open, still me,
we're going to have a party.
The elite have tea.

Had my ups and downs,
had my back until the end.
Means the world to me.

Thank you, thank you, thanks.
Thank you, thank you, thanks, thank you,
thank you, all my friends.

Peanut Gallery

I want to know more
Wish I paid more attention
So complicated

Woke up denying
Thought Star was hyperbolic
I'll listen next time

People fill the streets
Is this like that one movie
We hit the third act.

Want to change majors.
Never seen such modern art.
Want to pass this class

Procrastination.
I'll cheat my way through the test.
You're too smart for that.

Never had such fun
Could make a brilliant career.
Even if I fail.

My study partner
Are you trying to slow me?
Now I'll make a C.

Last chance for first marks.
Scared for my life that ride, but
I'll do it again.

Use your other eyes
Daughter of my favorite
I'll see you next year.

Mimicry

I heavily ripped off the Wild Beasts song "Please Sir".

Please sir, excuse me
I didn't mean to offend.
With utmost respect

Generation Why
I know it doesn't make sense.
"I wish and I hope"

So for forgiveness,
please, take this haiku as an
offering of peace


I believe in the art world, ripping off is called paying tribute, right?

Sown

Please don't go away.
Not that I'll get the courage
Secrets I should share.

You are going up
I'll see you when you get down
I can't seem to climb.

I'm afraid of heights.
I've been trying since 90
ignore those feelings.

You were meant for clouds.
But if we do meet again
I want solid ground.

The Beginning of the End

Plot twists, cliffhangers
But does it really matter?
What's the big picture?

Hypothetically Speaking

What's your greatest strength
Tell me about a time when
You gave it your best

What makes you ideal
Hypothetically Speaking
How did you get here

Organic!

Plastic on the run
Natural should be preferred
Go away bad thing

Proud 2

Is it abnormal
to become what you rebelled
but came to respect

Its beyond instinct.
With a special connection
we can disagree

When the world can feel
what our previous versions
feel about updates

The rainclouds will part
make way for a new morning
and a new order

Is it abnormal?
Hidden appreciation.
Do you understand?

Destroyer

Seeing Destroyer tonight at the Troubadour, so I figured a tweet tribute was in order. Each line in the Haiku taken from various Destroyer lyrics.

"Saw brides and their grooms
Saw the features of the world
All sounds like a dream

Now you've got it all,
They told me it was clever.
You've got it all wrong."


That ended up being harder than I thought. Of course all my favorite lyrics are more are less than 5/7 syllables.

Patois

Don't take this lightly
The Icicles of Hector
will fall upon thee

Come back one more time
We've forgotten the dancer
Like the dash of salt

How crucial was Tenth
The law of Newton was Raw
Ruin scape winter

Not a Hurricane
Not a Master or Mister
I'm just me simply

Live by books to live
I liked the first one I met
Let's just have some fun

Replay the same song
Neves never needed notes
Just a manager

Cowboys play cards well
My host can trick me again
No harm, costume change

It's never too late
Take the towel off the wood
What needs to be done?

Not a refinish
Not just a restoration
It's just me simply

Don't call me these names
I was wrong to lie to you
I'm just me simply

Rainy Day

It's a rainy day
Too early for Jameson
Too late for make up

Greene

I tried to write tonight
I kept watching the spider
Looking for the cat

Please keep the light on
I'll go to sleep in safety
Then I'll get some rest

What's under my bed
It would help if you look first
You say it's nothing

Close my closet door
I'll keep my clothes on the floor
It's too dark in there

Heard you're doing well
Excuse me that came out wrong
Tell me how you've been

Make Yourself

I'll dance if you dance
There's no respect otherwise
I'm not that guy now.

Haiku of the Year

I will warn you, once you read this haiku, formerly known as the "joke of the year" you may never laugh again. Why? The bar is about to be set. High.

Two fish in a tank,
one says to the other, "you
man the guns, I'll drive."

Form an orderly queue...

Soon Well Get

Friend of mine had his lungs spontaneously collapse. He is having his final surgery today to repair and ensure this doesn't happen again. I'll be thinking about you buddy.

Get well soon Jorge
Sorry to hear 'bout your lungs
You will get better.

Sick Day

Taking a sick day
I got a parking ticket
Says I have to pay

When I drove uptown
I met a pastor today
Said I needed grace

Light won't stop blinking
Saw my mechanic today
Said I needed brakes

My hair is too long
Went to the town barbershop
Theres discounts on fades

With enough time left
visited a senior friend
this is what he said:

"I was so lucky
didn't know I had so much
until she was gone.

You take for granted
you lose out on happiness
even the small things"

Left with what he knew
got home late and Stuntman said,
Sick day? Where were you?"

Prime

I'll construct a rhyme
Make you a drink, extra lime
Let's text, say, prime-time?

The grass looks green here
But don't you prefer the beach
I'll wish otherwise

Don't forget that your
keen brown telephoto eyes
sees what we can't see

Your simplicity
No wonder they turn on you
You are the genius

You have no idea
The pile of gold you sit on
You can betray me

You saw raw beauty
Don't ever stop looking in
Wish I saw it first

Too much frequency
was reciprocity to me
Beat before the play

Dare you to adjust
the aperture wide enough
To see what we see

You think you waste time
Your self doubt should be a crime
You're no less than prime

Grass

I've got a secret
Its not your silly sister
Breakfast is for friends

There is no excuse
even though the world melted
should have stayed solid.

Is dedication
pathetic or poetic?
Where did the line go?

All of you are wrong
A smile is for everyone.
You've seen nothing yet.

Heard from you last month
Sounds like the weather is clear
Go outside silly

Don't want to grow up
Don't want to stay the same age
You're failing at both

The secret is fake
mythologized by the bored
Let's go get breakfast.