# a not-so-new new haiku - 4Sep. 2006
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-not-so-new-new-haiku-4sep-2006/13184
**Category:** Creative Writing
**Created:** [September 22, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-not-so-new-new-haiku-4sep-2006/13184 "2006-09-22T18:14:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@lengthheightwidth](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/lengthheightwidth)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-not-so-new-new-haiku-4sep-2006/13184/1 "2006-09-22T18:14:51Z")
i have no face –
the one in the mirror
is not my own
N.
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### Author:  [@Dakotadean](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Dakotadean)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-not-so-new-new-haiku-4sep-2006/13184/2 "2006-09-22T20:55:53Z")
Seems like at the time you wrote this you did something that you never thought you would do, or was becoming something that you didn’t want to be.
I’ve woken up and realized that I’m turning out to be a person I’d never imagine myself being…
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### Author:  [@lengthheightwidth](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/lengthheightwidth)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2006, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/a-not-so-new-new-haiku-4sep-2006/13184/3 "2006-09-25T15:28:51Z")
Thanks for the feedback Dd - I’ve been exploring the theme of identity in my poetry over the recent month or so and this is just a haiku variant of that theme. When I wrote it, I just thought it was going to be a stanza in a larger poem, but the more I looked at it, the more it felt complete in a haiku way, so I chose to leave it as is as a haiku.
–Nels.