The Haiku Project

**Barrett Dorko** · 12-11-2011, 01:56 PM

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Vivid, clear writing gives the reader clear images. This results in a kind of vicarious experience…(and) if a writer captures an experience that produced emotion, the reader will have similar emotion based on experiencing the images provided by the writer.

From The Craft of Haiku by William J, Higginson

What I know about this form I read here a few years ago. The author makes it clear that the use of the 5-7-5 syllable pattern is a Western invention and not necessary in other languages, but being Western, I think I’ll stick with it. I also like the fact that it simplifies things, and you know me when it comes to that.

What I want to do is begin a thread I’m hoping will grow with your help.

I’ve written a bunch of haiku, but almost no one has seen them. I do it because I think that doing things in the absence of external approval is important.

But we need to share, especially when we sense that we are isolated and, as we say here on Soma Simple, dead.

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She’s ninety seven
Dementia, broken pelvis,
And she’s a Part A

Perhaps I should point out that the images created and emotions evoked should not be confined to desperation, frustration, despair, ennui and anger.

That’s just me.

What have you got?

divamover · 12-11-2011, 03:59 PM

Now I'll be thinking/speaking in haiku for the rest of the day!

You may have created some monsters, Barrett! (Haiku monsters, that is.)

Still thinking of a Feldenkrais lesson with a client yesterday: her left side has been paralyzed since surgery a few months ago for a malignant brain tumor.

Was that a signal?
Brain to left foot -- are you there?
I feel her push back!

**Barrett Dorko** · 12-11-2011, 04:27 PM

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You may have created some monsters, Barrett!

Boy, I hope so.

Your contribution is exactly what we need to get started.

Haikus offer us to opportunity to display the depth of our complex knowledge alongside the simplicity of our actual handling. In the end (assuming there is something like that), we can meet where our common experiences and sensations meet in an emotional field.

Oh brother, I've got to stop writing like that.

smith · 12-11-2011, 04:43 PM

Ahh, so poetry does have something to contribute to science.

**Barrett Dorko** · 13-11-2011, 03:36 AM

This is what I saw that got me thinking about this thread last night:

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Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don’t make sense
Refrigerator

Jon Newman · 13-11-2011, 03:52 AM

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The Haiku Project
It's sure to be popular
Don't you believe it!

**Diane** · 13-11-2011, 04:26 AM

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Pain is in the brain.
Cognitive dissonance hurts.
Wouldn't you agree?

**Diane** · 13-11-2011, 05:02 AM

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Sore spots everywhere
vex what she thinks is her flesh -
Trigger points aren't real.

**Diane** · 13-11-2011, 05:15 AM

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To be the object,
Or to share an objective:
Which do you prefer?

**nari** · 13-11-2011, 06:19 AM

Pain is the hint
to a simple solution
but it ain't muscle.

Old man, tired of pain,
stands there while the therapist
counts down his leg lifts.

**rkathryn** · 13-11-2011, 07:45 AM

Skin is the in thing
Where else would you be working
But the brain of course!

smikolic · 13-11-2011, 03:34 PM

The brain is in pain
It encages the person
To try to protect

Facilitate moves
Brain discovers how again
The person now free

Interactor, me
Prescriber others may be
One pro person, one......

**Bas Asselbergs** · 13-11-2011, 04:57 PM

Yes, it's in your brain
that means it is as real as
your reflected face

**byronselorme** · 13-11-2011, 07:06 PM

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What is this thing I
Just learned here online today?
Oh, brain, nevermind.

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Stop asking me why
I do those weird things I do.
It works, let me earn.

Jon Newman · 14-11-2011, 05:04 AM

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Moonlit clouds blowing
The recent snow has melted
Corinthian chimes

**keithp** · 14-11-2011, 12:42 PM

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Learning, knowledge
~~a great~~ my companion.
~~He sits alone.~~ Isolation.

Edit:

Learning, knowledge
my companion.
Isolation.

Respectfully,
Keith

Jon Newman · 15-11-2011, 12:13 AM

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"Uh oh, here's PT."
What do they think they're doing?
The patient bristles.

gollygosh · 15-11-2011, 01:27 AM

Structure and function
anatomy is the all
except, sensory

A signal exists
briefly, a response is made.
Protection remains.

Jon Newman · 16-11-2011, 01:35 AM

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Out in the hallway
The veteran is a proud man
Cheap diapers fall down

**Barrett Dorko** · 16-11-2011, 02:51 PM

Do you want to dance?
Disinterested silence
I won’t ask again

**Barrett Dorko** · 29-11-2011, 12:59 PM

Superficial talk
My colleagues want nothing more
If we think, we die

**caro** · 29-11-2011, 07:00 PM

Some skin here and there
There is not much left of me
Please handle with care

**Diane** · 29-11-2011, 07:19 PM

Only three nerve cells
Separate skin from its brain
They live very close

smikolic · 01-12-2011, 03:47 PM

The weather has changed
It, and my bed, hurt me so
Why is life so cruel?

PT's hurt me too...
And doctors don't seem to care
What can you do, huh?

The knowledge, so fresh
Someone understands, perhaps?
I can change this now??

I "feel" differently
A new body surrounds me
Moving more freely!

**Barrett Dorko** · 01-12-2011, 07:52 PM

Twenty-five years old
She moves with difficulty
“Hi, I’m your PT”

smikolic · 01-12-2011, 09:37 PM

The days, they go by
The faces, they go by too
The knowledge, it grounds.

**nari** · 01-12-2011, 10:30 PM

Therapist walks in
MO says to scared patient:
'You're in trouble now'.

Young person asks nurse:
"What will the physio do?"
"Take you walking, I think."

Frightened old man waits
for some person to explain
why he has this pain.

Assumptions rule here
that patients' chronic pain
cannot be explained.

**Bas Asselbergs** · 01-12-2011, 10:46 PM

What do I do now?
All the tests are negative!
Is he faking it?

**Barrett Dorko** · 06-02-2012, 04:41 PM

If only they knew
The skin is the brain exposed
They'd drop their needles

**ste5e** · 06-02-2012, 05:46 PM

Fear and pain subside
If the brain as a cauldron
Is stirred but gently

12-11-2011, 03:59 PM	#2
divamover Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Early morning haiku Now I'll be thinking/speaking in haiku for the rest of the day! You may have created some monsters, Barrett! (Haiku monsters, that is.) Still thinking of a Feldenkrais lesson with a client yesterday: her left side has been paralyzed since surgery a few months ago for a malignant brain tumor. Was that a signal? Brain to left foot -- are you there? I feel her push back!

13-11-2011, 07:45 AM	#11
rkathryn Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: San Diego, CA by way of Huntsville, AL Age: 39 Posts: 187 Thanks: 53 Thanked 43 Times in 14 Posts	Skin is the in thing Where else would you be working But the brain of course! __________________ Rajam K. Roose, HHP "The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry" (Simone Weil)

13-11-2011, 03:34 PM	#12
smikolic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minocqua, WI Age: 34 Posts: 545 Thanks: 18 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	The brain is in pain It encages the person To try to protect Facilitate moves Brain discovers how again The person now free Interactor, me Prescriber others may be One pro person, one...... __________________ Stephanie A. Mikoliczak, DPT And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin

13-11-2011, 04:57 PM	#13
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	Yes, it's in your brain that means it is as real as your reflected face __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

15-11-2011, 01:27 AM	#18
gollygosh Geralyn Giuffrida PT Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 376 Thanks: 135 Thanked 124 Times in 62 Posts	Structure and function anatomy is the all except, sensory A signal exists briefly, a response is made. Protection remains. Last edited by gollygosh; 15-11-2011 at 01:55 AM. Reason: Liked it better with punctuation

12-11-2011, 04:43 PM	#4
smith Senior Member Join Date: May 2008 Age: 55 Posts: 538 Thanks: 0 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts	Ahh, so poetry does have something to contribute to science.

13-11-2011, 06:19 AM	#10
nari NeuroNut Evangelist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: ACT Aust Posts: 7,676 Thanks: 703 Thanked 230 Times in 164 Posts	Pain is the hint to a simple solution but it ain't muscle. Old man, tired of pain, stands there while the therapist counts down his leg lifts.

16-11-2011, 02:51 PM	#20
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,634 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	Do you want to dance? Disinterested silence I won’t ask again __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

29-11-2011, 12:59 PM	#21
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,634 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	Superficial talk My colleagues want nothing more If we think, we die __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

29-11-2011, 07:00 PM	#22
caro Arbiter Join Date: Jan 2011 Age: 43 Posts: 679 Thanks: 1,166 Thanked 436 Times in 174 Posts	Some skin here and there There is not much left of me Please handle with care __________________ Carol Lynn Chevrier LMT "Beaucoup d'entre nous mourront ainsi sans jamais être nés à leur humanité, ayant confiné leurs systèmes associatifs à l'innovation marchande, en couvrant de mots la nudité simpliste de leur inconscient dominateur." Henri Laborit - 1914-1995 . Last edited by caro; 29-11-2011 at 07:03 PM.

29-11-2011, 07:19 PM	#23
Diane Human Primate Social Groomer and Neuroelastician Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Weyburn Sask. Posts: 19,659 Thanks: 1,481 Thanked 3,171 Times in 1,556 Posts	Only three nerve cells Separate skin from its brain They live very close __________________ Diane www.dermoneuromodulation.com SensibleSolutionsPhysiotherapy HumanAntiGravitySuit blog Neurotonics PT Teamblog Diane Jacobs.com (personal website) Canadian Physiotherapy Pain Science Division (Archived newsletters) Canadian Physiotherapy Association Pain Science Division Facebook page @PainPhysiosCan WCPT PhysiotherapyPainNetwork on Facebook @WCPTPTPN Neuroscience and Pain Science for Manual PTs Facebook page @dfjpt SomaSimple on Facebook @somasimple "Rene Descartes was very very smart, but as it turned out, he was wrong." ~Lorimer Moseley “Comment is free, but the facts are sacred.” ~Charles Prestwich Scott, nephew of founder and editor (1872-1929) of The Guardian , in a 1921 Centenary editorial “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you." ~Don Marquis "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists" ~Roland Barth "Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one."~Voltaire

01-12-2011, 03:47 PM	#24
smikolic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minocqua, WI Age: 34 Posts: 545 Thanks: 18 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	The weather has changed It, and my bed, hurt me so Why is life so cruel? PT's hurt me too... And doctors don't seem to care What can you do, huh? The knowledge, so fresh Someone understands, perhaps? I can change this now?? I "feel" differently A new body surrounds me Moving more freely! __________________ Stephanie A. Mikoliczak, DPT And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin

01-12-2011, 07:52 PM	#25
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,634 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	Twenty-five years old She moves with difficulty “Hi, I’m your PT” __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

01-12-2011, 09:37 PM	#26
smikolic Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minocqua, WI Age: 34 Posts: 545 Thanks: 18 Thanked 5 Times in 5 Posts	The days, they go by The faces, they go by too The knowledge, it grounds. __________________ Stephanie A. Mikoliczak, DPT And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin

01-12-2011, 10:30 PM	#27
nari NeuroNut Evangelist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: ACT Aust Posts: 7,676 Thanks: 703 Thanked 230 Times in 164 Posts	Therapist walks in MO says to scared patient: 'You're in trouble now'. Young person asks nurse: "What will the physio do?" "Take you walking, I think." Frightened old man waits for some person to explain why he has this pain. Assumptions rule here that patients' chronic pain cannot be explained.

01-12-2011, 10:46 PM	#28
Bas Asselbergs Physiotherapist Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Canada Age: 61 Posts: 3,693 Thanks: 834 Thanked 484 Times in 233 Posts	What do I do now? All the tests are negative! Is he faking it? __________________ We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are - Anais Nin Pain is a conscious correlate of the implicit perception of threat to body tissue - Lorimer Moseley

06-02-2012, 04:41 PM	#29
Barrett Dorko Writer and Clinician Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Age: 61 Posts: 12,634 Thanks: 605 Thanked 1,448 Times in 852 Posts	If only they knew The skin is the brain exposed They'd drop their needles __________________ Barrett L. Dorko P.T. www.barrettdorko.com

06-02-2012, 05:46 PM	#30
ste5e SomaSimpler Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Harrogate UK Age: 45 Posts: 433 Thanks: 267 Thanked 262 Times in 117 Posts	Fear and pain subside If the brain as a cauldron Is stirred but gently

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