I have recently discovered the Japanese form of Haiku poems.
What I like about them is their brevity. As a busy mum, I love words but don’t have hours to pour over them and I find this keeps me writing.
Here is one by Katsushika Hokusai that I think a lot of people on here will empathize with:
A Poppy Blooms
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
Of course, sometimes that Poppy never blooms and your work ends up the victim of the delete button but when it does, it’s a wonderful moment. Here’s my own contribution hoping that lots of poppies bloom for all the writers on here…
Pastures crawl closer
To whisper hollow secrets
But I don’t listen.
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Dave.
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This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by
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