You're the final guest
You're the final guest
who won't let the party end,
lingering blue dusk.
who won't let the party end,
lingering blue dusk.
posted by Pete Green at
16:43
31 December 2007
About Me
- Name: Pete Green
- Location: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Poet, musician and snowflake. Sporadically sparkly. Rising slowly. Pedestrian. Grimbarian. Edgelander. King of the impossible. Big girl's blouse.
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Thanks for reading my 2007 haiku blog, which is now closed. I will carry on writing haiku – but not every day, because not every day has a haiku moment and, although I'm really happy with some of these poems, too great a proportion have been forced and unsatisfactory. Less is more and all that.
I'll post the new poems in a new blog, which will appear at the sparklemotion.co.uk/haiku url, so please subscribe using that address if you haven't already.
If you've enjoyed this blog, have a think about setting up one of your own. My friend MJ Hibbett extols the ukulele as an accessible way to start playing and writing music – it's so simple that you don't have to worry about technique and can concentrate entirely on saying the right things – and I wonder if haiku might be to poetry as the ukulele is to songwriting. If you decide to have a go, post a comment about it here so we can have a look!
Every moment in isolation – that's what it's all about.
I'll miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiss this. Sniff.
I'm glad you're going on, though. I could write a long dissertation on finding the right balance between making yourself write and waiting for the right moment, and talk about how forcing myself to write has produced some of my best sentences as well as things that the world could have done without. And how the year that I wrote about 'the beauty of the way that we are living' was the most exciting year of my life, and how I think this was only partly a coincidence. In a way I think that certain kinds of things came out to meet me once they realised I was actively looking for them.
I didn't quite intend to get philosophical in your comments section, sorry!
Good afternoon Pete!
I wish I had something philosophical to add here too, unfortunately today my brain fails me following the nights frivolities.
Anyway, after our little conversation in Nottingham I decided that haiku was not half a bad idea. The consequences, albeit good, bad, simple or nonsensical lie in the arks and whales blog. (I would do one of these here linky things but megabytes and stuff fail me).
Happy new year Pete! I like your words.
Love Sophie
I am missing this already. However! It's so great that you had the idea and stuck with it, even after the realisation that haiku moments are hard to find. There are many, many poems I read on here that I'll be going back to, that made me gasp and pause for breath, that made me feel warm inside or reach for the email to see what it was all about - but most of all I loved the surprise of it all, waiting to see what moment you'd capture next, what the last line would be. A surprise, every single day. Please don't ever stop writing!
xx
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