Following up on yesterday and my sharing of how writing Haiku has been healing for me, I offer you an example of writing when sleep wouldn’t come. According to my notes, it was 5:30 AM, not a normal wake-up time for me. Evidently I decided to do my Morning Pages and be complete with them:
And in the middle of crying, scribbling wildly across pages of a new notebook, I remembered my reminders on “Haiku for Healing”, so I took my advice…
Try some Haiku now
Instant gratification
Seven syllables
All I have to do
Three lines, so simple, then done
Quiet now I am
It’s hard to believe
Simple syllable counting
Quiets my being
Crying, depression
Tearing through the pages
Then Haiku counting
Nine lines, calm set in
Is that all there is to peace
Counting simple sets?
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Storming all over
Words and thoughts flying about
Writhing in my bed
Life has no purpose
At this point in time
Empty, void of love
Where is the passion
Who are the recipients
In unknown blackness
Empty words they are
No one’s there to receive them
Feeling all washed out…
Put pen down, sleep came
Woke up full of energy
Lots of new ideas
©2008 Sheila Finkelstein
Hours after writing, I concluded:
Haiku wipes the tears
Middle of the night sadness
Lonely, guilty, write
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i am so grateful to know how much writing haiku has been healing in your life, Sheila. Seventeen syllables. So simple.