After reading a friend's status update on Facebook, I am inspired to try to write a haiku a day for the next year. I love haiku, even if I have been mired down in the overly simplistic 5-7-5 rhyme scheme taught to American elementary school children. I don't have the stamina, skill, or personality to master poetry, but I envision that I just might learn to write haiku that, taken over the course of a year, encapsulate my life in fleeting, vivid imagery. Like poignant snapshots in words, if I'm at all successful. I'm looking forward to this little challenge that I've set myself. Let's see whether a short line of poetry is more than I can manage daily ....