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Rules Went Away
!Doorknob meteor shower:
!mundane miracle.
Expecting me to refrain from reworking an initial idea at my wordsmith’s forge is like expecting Alice to refrain from following a white rabbit who looks at a watch and frets about being late, in the first few pages of Alice in Wonderland. Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.
Rules Came Back
!Meteor shower
!seen by day in a doorknob:
!mundane miracle.
Like most of my haiku, Rules Came Back obeys the common rules that a haiku has 3 lines and that these lines have syllable counts 5-7-5, with no rhymes. Long after I wrote them, I noticed that both haiku here obey the rule that the initial and final lines should be interchangeable. While I hardly ever bother with this gimmicky rule, compliance just happened.
Decades before me, Santoka Taneda (1882-1940) wrote a number of 2-line haiku. None that I have seen mention any doorknobs.
– above post (on phone) or beside it (on desktop). –
Mellow Curmudgeon 
When rules fly out the window
rebel spirits soar.
Well-trained minds rebel
when rules fly out the window:
need for balance soars.
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😁
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🙂 A door opens to a miracle. 😉
And which is the better? Rules discarded or embraced? A matter of taste, I suppose.
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Embraced rules are sometimes also bent backward, like the woman in a tango. 😉
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Well played, Sir!
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I love the idea of breaking the rules, especially when it works. The description “mundane miracle” applies to many simple things in life that we don’t acknowledge until it grabs our attention. I find the light can turn something that is mundane into visually intriguing. Happy mundane hunting.
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Thanks.
“Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively.” ~Dalai Lama XIV
Yes, most of the images in my [Mundane Miracle] posts celebrate special lighting of ordinary subjects.
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I’ll have to check the other ones out. 🙂
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It was the DL who said that? What do you know!
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While many people have said similar things, I like the way the DL worded it.
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Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the clarity 🌄
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Light makes the difference… 🌄
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I’m sure a two-lined haiku is just called something else… 😉
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Have not seen any other name for 2-line haiku, and that is fine. There are not many of them, and having a special word would just be cognitive clutter. 😉
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Very true
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