I didn’t sign them, didn’t say they were mine and whilst there was speculation about the haiku ‘phantom’ interestingly no-one thought it was me. It was an intoxicating feeling and I wanted more. I felt rebellious, naughty and very young. And so, first thing one morning, when no-one was there I wrote my first haiku on the wall.
Our lab has wall-talkers, those walls that you are allowed to write on, in fact encouraged to write on.
A COMPLETE HAIKI HOW TO
So, what to do, how to make my mark? For some reason, my haiku habit was the answer. I’m decades older than most of them, my background is business and although my first computer was an Apple Mac (you know the very first one, the actual original Mac), I’m certainly not up with all their modern kit. I found myself in a research lab full of very fancy computer equipment and surrounded by very serious technology nerds (that’s a compliment by the way). The haiku obsession began early last year. Well, as much as one can describe such a journey within the strictures of a 5/7/5 syllable poem. And yet, here I am, 15 months in, confirmed and about to analyse the data from my experiments and I have a collection of 20 haikus that do in fact describe the journey thus far. And when I commenced my PhD a year ago I certainly didn’t set out to document my PhD journey using an ancient Japanese form of poetry known as haiku. This is a post about… well, Paula can explain! PhD candidate and owner of Peace and Prosperity success coaching.
This one is by Paula Loveday of the University of the Sunshine Coast. Sometimes I get sent posts that are just too charmingly odd to resist.
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