Bindii Meeting 2nd Feb 2019

Our first meeting for 2019 had two attendees Lynette Arden and Maeve Archibald

The activity chosen by Lynette proved very successful in stimulating ideas for writing haiku.

We took it in turn to choose a haiku at random from the book haiku mind by Patricia Donegan.

Each haiku was written up on the board and we discussed it.

We read the commentary on the poem from the book and considered what it was that we got from the poem.

We then used the haiku as a spur for our own writing, taking whatever it had evoked as our guide.

This varied between themes, styles, subject matter, and or emotional impact.

We discussed and commentated on each other’s work.  Each of us were able to produce 2-3 haiku poems that we found quite satisfying.

The chief value in this exercise was the variety of different haiku gave a variety of stimuli perhaps providing a new field from which we could each draw.

Maeve Archibald