The organiser, Jan Fox, challenged us to be in the now, and write haiku to perform in front of the group. She told us that 'now presence' was the key to successful live performance, in her experience.
The first is based on what happened while we were trying to write them.
The fire brigade's here;
We're living in denial,
But get the all clear.
Someone cooking upstairs. Lucky we weren't killed as we ignored the alarm and wrote. Fanatics, eh?
Should I eat Greg's bun?
It's full of sticky toffee
Which will rot my teeth.
It was sitting in front of me after I had finished my first effort, and he had been trying to get someone to take it, as he only wanted one of the pair he had bought.
The cherry blossom
Is gone; they've cut down the trees,
To build a new shed.
Jan mentioned flippantly that real haiku should feature the cherry blossom. This, sadly, is also based on what has happened in my home street, where the prettiest cherry trees in the city have been sacrificed to church expansion.
We had five minutes to write one, and I did three. The secret to churning out the doggerel against the clock is to not be overly fussy about quality.
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