I confirm today
A welcome period of
Haiku amnesty
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James Proclaims! 
18 responses to “A Haiku To Announce A Temporary (Though Worryingly Non-Specific) Cessation Of Haikus On This Blog”
You’re off the hook!
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Quite possibly yes
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How will we all cope
Without our daily haiku?
Have to write our own.
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I would feel shame and satisfaction in equal measure if that were to be the outcome
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All well and good but they are part of my current prescription!
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I believe we can come to an arrangement
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Aaahhh, but can you really quit them? Saying you will is one thing, but actually stopping them is another. The most important word is “temporary”. That’s your loophole. We’ll see how long “temporary” is. 😊
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I always reserve the right to a loophole.
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You’re nobody’s fool, James.
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I don’t believe it: “Ah haiku, I just can’t seem to quit you.”
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I am looking for a support group
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Instead of Thirteen Steps, it’s the Seventeen Syllable Program!
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When I hear amnesty it makes me think that the haiku will be granted some sort of safe harbor on your blog, so it doesn’t sound like anything will change at all.
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I like to think that I specialise in ‘more of the same’
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That sounds right.
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[…] Yesterday I posted a haiku that, as with all my haikus, failed to meet most of the criteria to qualify as a haiku, and might, instead, be more accurately described as a senryu. Indeed it might be even more accurate to describe it as a small collection of words. Irrespective of its credentials, however, the message in the sort-of-but-not-really-a-haiku was that I won’t be writing any more of these sort-of-but-not-really-a-haiku things for the foreseeable future. According the WordPress stat machine, it was a fairly popular post, which either means that: […]
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Amnesty means the Haiku’s are no longer guilty and you would welcome them back. First never thought they did anything all that bad and they haven’t left yet so there’s no need to welcome them back. This one doesn’t make much sense. I like that in a poem
Laugh! What has frowning ever done for you?
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I’m sorry to disappoint but in this case ‘haiku amnesty’ is less than subtle manipulation of an idiom (admittedly a UK-specific idiom) so it does make sense on those terms. I will try to make less sense in future.
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