I should explain the title of this blog it is from a Haiku I made up as part of an artwork I created some years back
” How would you know it was just a dream if you don’t know you’re asleep!”
I was pretty pleased with it as it is not just the 17 syllable rule that make it a Haiku but there has to be some reference to time or seasons passing. I hope the shift in tense between would and don’t, imply the difference between a waking and sleeping state hence the passage of time.
Even without the time reference, I still love John Cooper Clarke, the Punk Poet’s skit of a Haiku
“Writing a poem in seventeen syllables is very dific”
Any favourites?