Haiku #1

I don't know if anyone has noticed yet, but I'm somewhat terrible at keeping the ball rolling on things.  I tend to start creative ventures with the intention of putting a lot of time and effort into them, only to fizzle out when factors such as work, school and other responsibilities factor into the equation.  The fact that I've only been posting about once a month illustrates this point quite well.  I'd legitimately like to be posting something about once a week on here.

I'd really like to start working on a series of posts about recording school and embed clips of the progress I'm making on songs, but that's something I would only post it if I felt like it was entertaining or informative in some way.  So we'll see how that goes.

As for right now however, I'm probably gonna start posting haiku occasionally.  Sounds exciting, huh?  Hear me out though.  Back when I was in college, after learning HTML in my spare time while doing terribly in the C++ and programming I was supposed to be learning, I started a website or two.  I used to post my shitty amateur protoshop artwork, post a ridiculous drunken blog about my many awkward situations involving my roommate at the time, and post a ton of haiku.  I think of had over 300 haiku posted on that site.  I wish I had backed a lot of that material up before the sites expired and I inevitably lost all the data years ago.

The point being that I enjoyed seeing what kind of ridiculous haiku I could come up with.  It's almost like coming up with a clever status update on facebook, but fitting it into a 5-7-5 format.  They don't even need to rhyme, but if you can pull them off with some type of rhyme scheme, it's even more satisfying.  I feel that they are both more fun to write than traditional poems, and more entertaining.  But I might be incorrect.  The thing about haiku though, is that they are an aquired taste.  Some people find them entertaining and others completely don't care for the whole concept.  I like them personally, because you can come up with them quickly, and don't need to spend a substantial amount of time sitting down to work on them.   Most things I post on here I start working on, only to have to abandon them for a while, then come back a week or two later to finish when I'm in the right state of mind to work on them again.

Hence this post and the following haiku.  Hopefully it'll help me break the once-a-month posting habit and get into the mind-frame of writing more often.  I'll start off with a few I wrote for some videos I planned to do for youtube.  They were all somewhat medieval-themed and meant to be done in a faux British-accent.  The first three ended up in the first video, but it came out terribly so I never did a follow up video with the other haiku.  This shall be their new home.

Yonder street urchin
Why doth thou asketh for coins
Seek thee employment

Man upon transit
Thou doth reeketh of urine
Seek thee fresh linens

My heart doth acheth
As I long for days of yore
Fetch me my Zoloft

Come forth fair maiden
and I shall layeth my sword
betwixt thine goblets

Off to the ren faire
Virginity eternal
Is the prize we seek

I do not drink mead
For I haveth the straight edge
Fetch me a cider

Hark! Stop that strumpet
She hath snatched mine pantaloons
I shant pay her fee

Let us go yonder
On a quest to the ren faire
To cast lightning bolts

Thou art rapscallion
Thou art a haggard heathen
I love thee father

Greetings fair maiden
Will thou come and LARP with me?
Wait, why doth thou run?