It’s 4:30 in the morning and I’ve woken up with an earworm movieworm. I know… You were just getting used to earworms and now I’m throwing something else at you!
Sorry. But there it is… I CANNOT get the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade out of my bloomin’ head. One scene in particular keeps looping through my mind. It was the scene where Indiana had to choose the true cup of Christ to save his father’s life.
This movie unnerved me from the get go. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when BOTH my favorite actors were thrown together — rapture! Well, for some reason I can’t fathom, that scene will not leave me alone.
So here I am at 4:35 a.m. writing down what MIGHT pass for a haiku just to put a stop to it — hopefully. Now I KNOW haiku is supposed to have to do with nature, but might not human nature fit the bill as well? What would one do if the chance at immortality was staring them in the face?
It was just freakin’ weird. So I’m writing this silly thing in the hopes it will leave me alone! It’s not good by any means, but I HAVE to do it to get it out of my head.
Last Crusade
immortality
beckons — choose wisely my friend
from which cup you drink
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(It didn’t work, btw. Here it is 6:55 and I’m posting this. Back in bed the haiku kept trippin’ through my head after that. Sigh…)
Picture Credits:
Indy’s dad dying — bloody-disgusting.com
cups — www.basenotes.net
Impromptu Promptlings 
A splendid haiku.
There are traditionalists who hold to the “nature” facet of haiku, which is fine. Yet time moves, things unfold and change (the only constant). So if one wants to use the 5-7-5 form to express whatever they express and call it a haiku, then that should be fine, too. Personally, I think people just get too caught up in labels.
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I totally agree. I do like haiku. They just seem to come dribbling out at times. 🙂
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I think your haiku works perfectly. Well Done! I haven’t read all the other comments, but agree that haiku is meant to have a grounding in nature, but when having some fun – does that really matter? I simply love following the rules.
I sit here and write
Exactly what I’m thinking
Just some words for you
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Ah! Clever girl! 😀
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I didn’t know a Haiku was specific to Nature. I actually believe you’d be perfectly right about humans being part of nature. We are. 🙂
I liked your haiku. I don’t usually understand them. Yours made sense.
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Japanese poetry usually has something to do with nature. Here’s a PDF from Scholastic that might interest you. It’s just one page. I think you would be great at these! Jane does a lot of tankas. I need to try them.
Click to access whatishaiku.pdf
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It’s a great haiku. Very deep 🙂
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I think it was really bothering me why I was having it. I’m big on paying attention to what I dream about. Recurring dreams about driving are a dead give-away that somethings on my mind. Never did figure anything out, though.
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Have you tried journalling it? I often find that helps, especially if you do it with intent when you are in an altered state of consciousness. Just let the information flow…
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Yeah, I have. I was having major headaches some years ago, and after elliminating everything they thought it could be physically, they asked me to see a psychologist for a time or two. We talked about dreams. He told me to draw a circle in the middle of a paper and write a name for the dream and a date in it. Then I was to quickly write as many subjects, thoughts, etc. from the dream as I could remember all over the page. I was to journal about each subject and then draw a circle around it and then a line to connect it to the center circle. And if during that exercise anything seemed to connect with anything else, draw a line between those things, too. It was kind of weird. I tried it a few times. Didn’t get much out of it.
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That does sound kind of weird. I journal quite differently.I have a handout about journaling I wrote for a course I was running some years ago. I’m happy to email it to you if you are interested. It can be a very useful and powerful way of doing some inner work.
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Thanks so much for the offer, but I’ve done so much inner work the last 13 years I probably NEED a break and am fighting it. I have a friend who is a counselor by trade. We’ve spent this last year talking a lot. And maybe that has replaced some of the need for the journals, too. But if I ever decide to start another one fresh, I’ll get back to ya!
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There comes a time when it is good to stop and let it all consolidate. That’s how I think of it. Too much is not helpful 🙂
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I like the Haiku – it says a lot about the pivotal moments in our lives. The scene means a lot to you, so don’t be eager to push it away. Use paradox – accept and embrace it, then it will pass.
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It does, doesn’t it… The only thing I can figure is that a “pivotal moment” was on my mind when I went to bed. Still haven’t sorted it out yet, but did just what you said. I expect it will come right one of these days. Thank you, Derek, for your wise words. (And it’s nice not to be considered a wingut! LOL)
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What do you mean by paradox? Accept and embrace, for me is guidance from the West element Water, and is quite similar to a Tarot card I’ve come to appreciate after having found it showing up in a spread which I use for the New Year (Samhain). I’ve gotten it two years in a row. Explorer of Water (traditional would be Knight of Cups), which speaks very much of acceptance of the emotional triggers we have in life, acknowledge, accept, and release.
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I think he means the paradox is instead of a tendency to push the thought of choosing away, I need to embrace the idea of it, the choosing. At least that’s what I got out of it. ❓
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ah, something that is contradictory… I just looked up the word. All I kept thinking of was a movie, “Millennium” where a paradox would happen where two things which should be true can’t true at the same time. Hence, confusion.
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So did I even have it right? 😮 ❓
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You were asking if you got it right… Here is one definition which may fit:
“a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.”
The other three definitions are:
1. a self-contradictory and false proposition.
2. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.
3.an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.
I’d asked Q what paradox meant in the movie and what I said above is what he told me it meant in the movie.
To be honest, I’m confused LOL
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One of my favourite films, and definitely my favourite actor! “If adventure has a name, it must be… Indiana Jones.”
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Geez, when Ford and Connery were going to be together, they nearly had to hospitalize me! I’ve been in love with Sean Connery since “The Molly Maguires” and “Darby O’Gill and the Little People.” But I think my favorite film of his is Hitchcock’s “Marnie.” My favorite film of Harrison Ford’s is — you might be surprised — “Witness.” This movie trauma thing happened once before when Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were cast together in “The Towering Inferno.” Oh! Be still my heart! (Yes, I really am THAT old. LOL)
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I say not bad for a 4:30 a.m. writing……
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I had to giggle when I read “chose wisely”..it reminded me at Danny Kaye and the movie “The Court Jester”. Not sure if you know it, but there is a scene were he tries to remember which cup has the poison. It is so hilarious.
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I do! I am a HUGE Danny Kaye fan!
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I lije your haiku hope you get to sleep.
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I don’t particularly and I didn’t… I feel a nap coming on and it’s only 7:30 a.m.! But thanks for the vote of confidence, Donna! Hope you’re doing well.
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Just got home did dr. Got med forms filled in. Mire bloodwork done . New MRI to go to. Halter monitor today for 24 hours and neurologist on 20th . So alive and happy to have seen lots of my family. Life is good
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I’m so glad to hear that, Donna. I’ve missed you around the “neighborhood.” I pray 2016 will bring you nothing but good news! {{{Donna}}}
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Thank you how sweet of you
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