Technically, I already did this assignment but it was on January 31st so I thought in addition to remixing the prompt I would also try my hand at my second haiku poem in roughly 22 years The orginial writing prompt was pretty simple, write a haiku about yourself. By definition a haiku is “a small, simple 3 line, 17 syllable poem that doesn’t have to rhyme. The first and third lines have 5 syllables and the second line has 7 syllables”.
However, the remixed assignment was:

So here is my new/remixed haiku:
I’m not into pink
I prefer bright green
But you do you, boo

For this assignment we had to come up with a haiku about ourselves. Here it is!

My name is Sam Price (5)

I like hiking and biking (7)

I play frisbee too (5)

Since this post was so short I decided to include a picture of me hiking that goes along with my poem.

I hope you enjoyed my poem and were able to learn a little more about me!

PS: This assignment was worth 2.5 points…7.5 left for the week!

Sunny spring morning

A distant, clear mountain hike

into the fountain.

This poem describes my love for hiking, the crisp spring time air, The clear sunny skies the hidden waterfalls and tall mountains that seem to pour a fountain of beautiful earth movements. In those moments the world is still and everything is in place.

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For this assignment, I had to write a haiku about myself. It could’ve been about a hobby or something I’m passionate about. I opted to write about my growth. Over the last few years I have seen myself grow an immense amount. Before college, I went through some things people never have to go through. These leave scars that never heal. However, through the power of myself and those that love me, I have been able to grow and become so proud of myself. I know that if I can get through those obstacles, I can get through anything. I know my future is bright. I know there is always a way to be happy. A quote I live by is, “sometimes things fall apart so better things can come together.” This quote is very true to me. Personal growth is one of the most amazing things. I love to think back on my struggles and know how far I’ve come. If I have grown this much in the last couple of years, nothing can stop me for the years to come. I am stronger. I love how a simple haiku can tell such a big story. It was quite easy to write, as everything I wanted to say fit the syllables and I just wrote it onto paper and composed it into a tweet. I rediscovered haiku’s in last weeks assignment banks, and I throughly enjoy them. They can be interpreted so much by the audience. There really is no right meaning behind a haiku. This is reflective of life.

Coding and Mathematics

Logic all falls into place,

A fulfilling end.

For my last Writing assignment this week, I chose this assignment to write a Haiku about myself or something I’m passionate about for 2 and a half stars.

This assignment appealed to me because, even if I’ve always struggled at writing it, I’ve always enjoyed poetry. Haikus in particular can be such entertaining little poems, which seem less daunting to write. Yet, fighting with the amount of syllables to get them to work out is always more daunting than I imagine it to be. For the Haiku about me I chose to write about my main passion, which is my studies on Mathematics and Computer Science. For as long as I can remember, Math has been my happy place, and when I discovered Computer Science at the end of high school, I was hooked on that too. Particularly, I love the logic and problem-solving involved in both disciplines, which I realize is generally the same: figuring out the last step needed for a proof in Abstract Algebra and having an epiphany of what’s been wrong in your code the whole time provokes the same sense of satisfaction. That’s what I hoped to capture in my Haiku. I think it’s important to celebrate those moments when it might be 3 AM in bed, when you’re driving to work in the morning, or when you’re in the shower that everything clicks into place in your head. It’s always such a wonderful feeling.

Ironically, I thought of this Haiku while I was in the shower, and then promptly forgot it when I sat down to write it, so I had to create it again. I think a good strategy for writing a Haiku about yourself is to think of something meaningful you’re passionate about and take it from there. Then, it takes a lot of fiddling with words and syllables to get the 5-7-5 syllable pattern, but you’ll get there in the end!

Breathing in and out

Releasing tension and stress

You are good enough

For my third writing assignment (2.5 stars), I decided to do the Haiku about You Assignment. I decided to do it on yoga because it is one of my favorite hobbies. I also teach it at the Fitness Center! I love yoga for the way that it makes me feel. I have taught many different fitness classes (I am the Group Fitness Student Coordinator), but my favorite by far is yoga. I love the belief system behind it- you are already good enough, it is truly for everyone, and you deserve to be at peace. As much as I love all fitness classes, yoga is unique. As an instructor, I love being able to tell people to release stress and that they are good enough. I am able to tell people things that they need to hear that very few people tell them on a regular basis. As a student, I love being led by an instructor who is holding space for me to be who I am. I tried to represent these sentiments as best I could in my Haiku. I tried to focus on the parts that I think are the most important, but not necessarily the easiest.

I created this Haiku by thinking about the parts I love about yoga. Then, I played around with different phrases until I found ones that had the right number of syllables and fit well with each other.

For my second writing assignment, I picked the “Haiku About You”. It has been a very long time since I tried my hand at poetry, but I remembered liking it, and the haiku format is pretty forgiving.

The haiku I came up with was :

“Some people fear me

My boyfriend can’t believe it

He says I’m too small”

This was inspired from a conversation I had in class the other day. My professor was talking about subconscious bias, and brought up how people will perceive people who are shorter as childlike and less of a threat. I brought up how this was interesting, because I’m only 5’3″, but a lot of people tell me that they were scared of me initially. However, my boyfriend doesn’t understand that at all. He’s never actually said that my height is what makes me seem non-threatening, but I theorized that my height was subconsciously making me seem less scary to him. The whole thing is pretty ironic, considering how scared he was to talk to me when we first met.

I’m happy with what I came up with; it accurately describes me, but in an unexpected way. It also expresses a frustrating phenomenon I’ve had to deal with.

I am a spy man

I am a high risk taker

I am a coder

Above is a haiku I wrote about my new secret agent. His code name is A.W. He is a high risk taker and he like programming.

Writing Assignment: Haiku About You worth 2 1/2 stars.

My name is Sara,

I really do love Haikus,

I hope you do too.