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This is a haiku I wrote years ago that still makes me laugh:
chocolate chip mountain and purple trees in orange skies God dancing with me
In grade school during art time I would draw a mountain that the teacher claimed looked like a chocolate chip so couldn’t be real. What she didn’t know was that my grandparents lived near a butte that looks exactly like a chocolate chip and I loved that place! That memory has never left me. The purple trees and orange ...
In grade school during art time I would draw a mountain that the teacher claimed looked like a chocolate chip so couldn’t be real. What she didn’t know was that my grandparents lived near a butte that looks exactly like a chocolate chip and I loved that place! That memory has never left me. The purple trees and orange skies were a sunset in the Smoky Mountains. Together the two visions capture so much…
bright red cardinal against chartreuse green leaves mouth open wide singing
exotic orchid blooms are smiling straight at me so I smile right back!
—IDK
The specific event isn’t important except to say it was out in nature and has happened more than once. Relecting on it this is all there is:
nothingness is oneing
—unknown
it’s raining my bald head getting wet standing still listening
birds chirping loudly I wonder… will you share your happiness?
Struggling with a difficult project at work and watching April showers turn the yard to mud:
me feeling like spring M U C K as I force a way through – stuck in IDK
Many years ago I wrote this haiku when I noticed that all the trees on my walk were slanted:
Trees slanting up straight Am I the one standing crooked In a straight-up world?
Today in reading for this lesson I came across this haiku by Issa:
Don’t know about the people, but all the scarecrows are crooked.
I’m drawn to this haiku because it makes me smile and because it reminded me of my own haiku. In this haiku I no...
I’m drawn to this haiku because it makes me smile and because it reminded me of my own haiku. In this haiku I notice the word “crooked” and wonder about all the meanings that word has that works in the haiku. When I read it I experience a moment of pleasure, of knowing something that might be “secret.” I’m seeing a lot of “crooked” as I look around and work. lol
To be very honest I find that this quote irritates me and grates on me. The idea that there is a bigger picture out there that I cannot see to my pain, that there is something to be gained like a lesson leaned takes me out of the present moment and into some future time that most likely will never happen. What if the pain just is? What if there is no larger landscape? I’m thankful for the now of the pain – not for the pain of and by itself but for the “now” that holds ...
To be very honest I find that this quote irritates me and grates on me. The idea that there is a bigger picture out there that I cannot see to my pain, that there is something to be gained like a lesson leaned takes me out of the present moment and into some future time that most likely will never happen. What if the pain just is? What if there is no larger landscape? I’m thankful for the now of the pain – not for the pain of and by itself but for the “now” that holds that pain.
Perhaps a glimpse is all we will ever have…
I was just figuring out what I’m wholehearted about When you come along and tell me that That name is going away while Another is being prepared for me So as I travel forward this moment is The moment of grief of letting go As ground gives way to a new path Under my feet and a new name in my heart But still a pilgrim
Yes, I think you are correct about the question and reading the quote separate from it. The word “earned” in the question is seems misplaced – like stepping on a thumbtack..
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