We joked Saturday about writing a Haiku to the Baptist Hymnal. The joke being that we still use Baptist Hymnals at Lake Pointe Church (where I work)… only we don’t actually sing from them.. They are used as shims and platforms to hold up… everything. Well, here’s what I came up with:
No Baptist Hymnal?
A season without praxis;
A stage has fallen.
Okay, for those of you who don’t know what a haiku is and may want to… I dunno comment here with your own Baptist Hymnal haiku… A haiku, in it’s simplest sense is a 3 line poem (it’s actually only one line in Japanese, but unless you speak Japanese, don’t worry about it) with an alternating syllable structure of five, then seven, then five syllables. It includes a caesura or punctuation mark to compare two things, events, whatever. And traditional haiku uses a kigo which is a word referencing a season (ya know: summer, fall, winter, and spring), but this is commonly left out of modern English haiku. And yes, haiku is both singular and plural… And you guys thought I was some meathead!
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