An Ancient Art

Why We Should Haiku

Published on August 5, 2004 By pseudosoldier In

Is that a verb? If it isn't already, consider it verbed, in the proud Army tradition of verbing (e.g. "We have to SP at 0500").

We used to do a lot of Haiku on the last mission we had. It was a way to relieve some stress. This is until a Haiku written by then SGT Estrogen Lass was read by then SSG Calangelo... he felt that it could have an impact on the morale of lower enlisted troops, specifically hers. The joke was on him (well, really us); banning Haiku ruined Van 1 morale, while her soldiers in Van 2 continued to struggle to be able to read the poems.

I've made a stab at some Haiku here (my IMHO genius use of the 5[headline title]-7[sub title]-5[blog body] was unappreciated) Link , and Negrodamus gave a take on his style Link

I also recently came across this Link.

I now feel that the appropriate protest of the hat incident Link is... more cowbell. And more Haiku!

Comments

InfoGeek

on Aug 05, 2004

Not to bring you down,
a verb you can call it, but,
Haiku is a noun.

IG

SSG Geezer

on Aug 05, 2004

What was the acronym you used on my page?

chiprj

on Aug 05, 2004

more cowbell

Hell, yeah, if pseudo
says it needs more cowbell, then
it needs more cowbell!

Spc Nobody Special

on Aug 06, 2004

Alpha Golf was banned,
No more hat wearing backwards,
Barbie can cram it sideways who the hell does she think she is *&&%%!!!!!!,death to the infidel dog...crap...crap....ummm, free form haiku?

Estrogen Lass

on Aug 06, 2004

Ok... I see ....blame little ol' EL for everything. I got a counseling statement for it. Eh.

I wish for the life of me that I could remember that stupid haiku. Its written down somewhere. Speaking of writing stuff down....where is our haiku book? It should be published.

Estrogen Lass

on Aug 06, 2004

And yeah.......

MORE COWBELL!!!!

pseudosoldier

on Aug 06, 2004

Well, EL... I'm sorry if it looked like I was blaming you for it. Seriously, I mean that part to be pointed at the *other* named character in the story (because his actions had the opposite effect of what he said he wanted).

I was pretty unclear on some of our haiku history, yes. We did continue to populate that book with haiku. Unfortunately, some time between the end of mission and the beginning of our train up this past year, the book disappeared. Big frown about that.

But what I was also getting at in the end was that we already have another book...

Hyperborean Wanderer

on Aug 08, 2004

The book is gone? Damn! That also had the proposed unit crest in it. Not to mention some really fine haiku, some of which was by yours truly.

pseudosoldier

on Aug 08, 2004

We discovered the absence of the book when on a training mission. Feeling down-trodden, I recalled with fondness the uplifting effects of haiku. Alas, someone had absconded with our book. Oddly, it wasn't as if the drawer had been cleaned out; there were still papers in there that we weren't supposed to have stored there at all, and they were as old as some of the entries in the book.

Gideon MacLeish

on Aug 08, 2004

Yes, more cowbell.

There just aren't enough songs that use the cowbell.

Sangus

on Aug 11, 2004

Guys... I have a fever...

and the only prescription... is more cowbell

pseudosoldier

on Oct 01, 2004

The ghoddammed new haiku book has been lost...
and found...
and lost...
and found...
and lost...
and found...

but I never did figure out who took the old one.

pseudosoldier

on Oct 08, 2004

The haiku has become... strange as of late. There's one contributor who can't seem to leave sexual frustration out of their art.
"Butter your buns," indeed.

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