With this series of posts, I shall be explaining some of my thought process behind the haikus I wrote in a recent article. Let’s start with the basics:
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7 Haikus on Hope
The dam of my mind
has bottled up my tears.
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Before
Let us go to the end.
The end!
Like a fairy tale, this could be our happily ever after.
Destination
Come, knife at the night
Journey
Bleed at the cliffs of abandon, one with the rock-side scraping your backside, there is an ocean pounding down below that I know but you stare at the sky, as you lie, “tell me all your problems but that water, oh that water is dark.” Come, bleed in the dark water then. And I’ll takeContinue reading “Journey”
Death
Part 4: surrender your body to the rhythm when the radio static goes dead.
Life
Part 3: Snapshot sodden soil, play a day by slow-mo, zoom in to a trembling twig and find universes of movement.
Weakness
Part 2: This thing I created is not good enough. The day I return to that epiphany of light, I will see through the illusion of grandeur to threadbare words fraying to piec e s.
Strength
Part 1: Today, I shake the very earth with a vibration of my fingers. This sea of emotion within me births hurricanes, I tear at forests, lash the oceans, I am so vast I can touch a whole continent with my heart.
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You are my shared historian.
Jordyn Saelor 