wordplay

i just discovered a daily haiku community here a@ L/J.....have written haiku for many
years, both traditional form ( 5-7-5, 17 syllables - 3 lines ) also Fusion haiku, american style with 17
meaningful syllables, more freeform, not as rigidly arranged, as within traditional format .
since both require concentration, and express images beautifully, i write them in both ways .
its the whole concise image that interests me, altho if i can fit a composition into traditional
japanese form,  i usually choose to... 
when i am in a writing state, and find myself  creating haiku,  i often  find myself speaking
in haiku, as well.  this brain adaptation to a practice is fascinating.
i am certain that songwriting produces this too, or any poet working in certain form, rhythm or meter.
i will say something, then count on my fingers, perhaps refine a bit, and there it is.

i decided to try to post a haiku daily as my twitter posts. it has been a fine way to communicate
what is my world and that what i am doing is haiku.  it's a discipline for my mind as i watch
the morning unfold. hmmmm

morning unfolding
witness to each new day's light
i worship at dawn.

pale misty warming light
wakes the horses as they doze,
rise, shake and shine.

to me both forms are small, lovely bits of a moment,   and with translation from japanese to
english often adding more syllables, i accept and enjoy writing in each style.
each is a precise little expression from my busy mind;  they give me focus as
i have my coffee and begin a new day.

so my goal is to continue to twitter in haiku.  i am new to both these forums, but one must
not linger in the olden days before   "social networking" and electric friends.


twittering haiku
marriage of old and new forms
births new creations.

tweet tweet, i am here!
mixing old and new concepts
can bring great delight.

i think i'll use one of these @ twitter this AM....will be returning here to prose form directly.