Do you play it safe?

[onecloud]

playing safe.

I am not certain that writing a poem is ever safe. when the ego is invested in the effort.

When I write haiku like poems I do not worry about risk. I write to please my own sensibilities.

I guess now I am interested in writing some poems which convey eternal themes. I am trying to perfect the form, but I do not feel any threat or failure.  I find the thread interesting. I just don't perceive risk.

also, fear of failing the form never imposes itself on children when we ask them to write or paint. yet they often create the freshest verse naturally. 
marty

[Hosscooper]

I will throw my two cents on top of onecloud's. I think those of us who are beginners at haiku do things like a child out of ignorance that are as onecloud says is fresh. It reminds me of the 4 levels of learning.

Unconscious incompetence
conscious incompetence
conscious competence
unconscious competence

No one perhaps does the wrong thing on purpose from the start intentionally. I do however find it interesting that it takes us so long to come full circle to a place where we feel free enough to do what we were doing in the beginning.

HOSS