Daily Haiku Blog Targets Time-Stressed Readers

Daily Haiku & Occasional Prose is a blog site offering a free daily haiku poem. The haiku is a 17 syllable poem that captures the spirit of the moment.

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) January 30, 2006 -- Fiction writer Jim Stallings in January 2006 launched his literary blog a Daily Haiku & Occasional Prose: http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/JimStallings/

The haiku is a Japanese verse form of three unrhymed lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables (total of 17 syllables), usually on some subject of nature. The haiku is probably one of the world’s most popular short poem formats.

Stallings composes these pithy short poems as the calendar advances. He tries to match his sense of season and mood with the poem’s expression. The haiku blog started with this welcoming haiku on Tuesday, January 17, 2006:

Thanks for stopping by,
I saw light around your head,
The door opened wide.

Stallings reports: “I think most people are overwhelmed with the amount of reading on the web. As a writer sadly I just don’t have time to read everyone’s blog even on a subject like writing fiction...I thought I’d contribute something to the web that I’d already been doing for some time: starting my day with a short poem. Maybe it’s a quick stop but a fulfilling one. A bit like checking your astrology reading. I draw most of my inspiration from the daily ‘feel’ or ‘mood’ and definitely my connection with dreams, nature, weather, animals and plants, the sun and seasons. It helps me orient and connect to the particular spirit of that day. I have a liberal sense of the haiku however. I feel one can stray from the strict path. I veer off into humor and romance sometimes.”

A whimsical sample from Thursday, January 19, 2006:

My mother knows you
My father says you're no good
My good friend Lazy.

Stallings says, “I hope it helps readers get a little boost for the day. In a way these poems are like inkblots…what they mean mirrors what your own mind’s light brings to the reading. Now and then I may write a bit of prose commentary too. So far many readers seem to like the daily haiku. That’s good enough for me.”

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Jim Stallings is a writer, editor and anthropologist. His most recent novel is a mystery of the Deep South, The Latest Bloodshed. See his fiction website: http://www.jimstallings.com for more on his novels and stories, bio, photo, philosophy and full contact info.

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