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Rider Strong

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

I mean, it wasn't just me sitting around writing haikus for the sake of writing haikus.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

It was with a group of friends.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

We agreed to all send haikus to each other every day for a year.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

Yeah, it was super fun.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

So I have a whole collection of haikus.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

And I got into haikus.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

I got into reading haikus.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

The good haikus are not abstract.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

These are like little mini essays that he's writing.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

The good haikus are like...

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

you know, they describe nature usually like it's a physical butterfly.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

And then you, you apply that.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

It's basically like a metaphor or an analogy that you can then like draw like, Oh, that's like this person was, you know, losing a daughter or something.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

And that's why they wrote about the, the pedal falling from the flower.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

You know, it's like that kind of, and the artistry of it is in being very immediate and you,

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

detail oriented and focused on something in the physical world so that then you apply the abstract thought to it by reading it.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

That's traditional.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

Obviously anything flies as haiku if it fits.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

So I'm not going to say that that's why it makes it bad, but at least stick to the syllable count.

Pod Meets World
Pod Meets Twirl'd: Survivor 5007

How do you think nobody tells the truth like coach?