Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Am I Haiku?

A brief departure from my silly haiku...

I was enjoying reading Alvina's bloomabilities blog, and there I found a link to a little quiz that tells you what poetry form you are. Naturally, I wanted to see if I would, in fact, be a haiku! Instead, I found:

I am, of course, none other than blank verse.
I don't know where I'm going, yes, quite right;
And when I get there (if I ever do)
I might not recognise it. So? Your point?
Why should I have a destination set?
I'm relatively happy as I am,
And wouldn't want to be forever aimed
Towards some future path or special goal.
It's not to do with laziness, as such.
It's just that one the whole I'd rather not
Be bothered - so I drift contentedly;
An underrated way of life, I find.
Maybe not having read the Lord of the Rings books lost me points in the "goal-oriented" portion of the quiz. However, I was heartened to find the following footnote at the end of my poetry evaluation:

(If you were not Blank Verse you would be a Haiku.)
Hooray! This blog is perfect for me! Or is it?

Short, terse, unfriendly,
Yet sometimes quite emotive;
I am the Haiku.
So my choices are general aimlessness or anti-social tendencies. Sigh. I'll just think of myself as a kinder, gentler haiku.

What Poetry Form Are You?

1 comment:

yamster said...

Awww... you are neither aimless nor unfriendly! "Contented" is good. :)