31

October
2007

Happy Halloween

category: Academic, Music, Reading, Writing
by Soph,

Today was the last day of the HaikuWriMo, so here is my last week’s efforts:

Day Twenty-Five:

on the lake
fountains shoot up
amid soaring seagulls

Day Twenty-Six:

magpie thief
taking the squirrel’s
freshly buried nuts

Day Twenty-Seven:

where did I put that conker?
squirrel among the leaves

Day Twenty-Eight:

midnight:
the howling of dogs
and fireworks

Day Twenty-Nine:

two leaves
nestle together
on the bench

Day Thirty:

the tree grows thin and bare
as squirrels feast below

Day Thirty-One:

at the window
a glowing grin
snuffed out

That last one alludes to a Halloween pumpkin - I wanted to do something suitably themed for the 31st October. How many of you are doing something for Halloween? We haven’t made much of an effort since our Halloween Ball in the student’s union happened on Saturday, so I feel like the day has already been and gone.

As for my course, the work is slacking off a bit now - next week is Reading Week, where we don’t have any seminars or lectures and we have a chance to catch up on any work or reading we’ve been given. Since I haven’t been given that much it’s just going to be a fun week off for me and I’m quite looking forward to it! I have to read the General Prologue and the Knight’s Tale from The Canterbury Tales and a French play by Racine called ‘Phèdre’. I’m very excited to start Chaucer; I did The Miller’s Prologue and Tale for my AS-level (two years ago) and really enjoyed it. I think we’ll be reading that as one of our selection, so it’ll be nice to do something I already know quite well. I’ve also read a few of the others in translation in the past, so I feel reasonably well prepared.

I should be a bit more active around the blogosphere this coming week since I have less work to do, although this weekend I’m away with the Chamber Choir so you may not see many comments from me until Monday - but I promise that I will do lots more blog-commenting next week!

Finally, good luck to all those starting their NaNoWriMo writing tomorrow. I found it difficult enough writing a haiku a day for a month, so I take my hat off to anyone who succeeds in writing a whole novel!


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5 Comments so far

  1. John | 01 November 2007, 02:23

    Wow there’s something for writing a novel? Madness. In terms of the haiku I really like the 31st October one, themed and a great way to end the month. Well done, you must be somewhat relieved to have finished! Hope to still see plenty of haiku nonetheless, thought perhaps a break to gather more steam is in order. xxx

  2. strugglingwriter | 01 November 2007, 03:12

    I liked all you Haiku, but especially like the last one (the pumpkin one). Enjoy your down time next week and have fun with Chaucer. Thanks for the NaNoWriMo luck wishes.

  3. Absolute Vanilla (and Atyllah) | 01 November 2007, 10:40

    The haiku for day 25 and 27 really appealed, they reminded me so much of scenes I see here! Brilliantly done - as always.

  4. Rob | 02 November 2007, 05:44

    I always really enjoyed Chaucer when we studied him in school. Maybe I should go have a look for my copy of The Canterbury Tales…

  5. SzélsőFa | 03 November 2007, 09:47

    See, you’ve done it. Congratulations!
    I liked #28 and 30.

    Pumpkin carving….hm…