Musings on life, love, and healing past trauma
Awake
Not asleep
Company you keepTalk
Worry sharing
Hand hold caringSteadfast
Strong pillar
Repels depressive killerForthright
Honest, straight
Restoring lost faithAccepting
Big, small
Trauma scarred allTrust
Freely given
True heart livingFriendship
Fortifying presence
Find my essenceStrength
Along way
Even when astraySafe
© REDCAT
To be
Realize all me
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Another Hay(na)ku for this week’s Wandering the Archives Wednesday.
Enjoy!
Mind
Quiet, Calm
Content with daySmell
Earthly musk
Freshly tiled soilHeart
Love filled
Natures own remedySoul
Sun fed
Resting in toilMuse
© REDCAT
Plants seeds
See inspiration grow
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Tiered after a warm day with too much sun. This little poem struck me as fitting as this week’s archive find.
Enjoy!
Insight
Burning bright
Lighting soul’s nightBright
Revealing light
Awakens true sightLight
Souls night
Reveal spirit’s mightNight
Silver moonlight
Spirit shines brightMoonlight
© REDCAT
Illuminating birthright
Awakens soul’s delight
Mind
Quiet, Calm
Content with daySmell
Earthly musk
Freshly tiled soilHeart
Love filled
Natures own remedySoul
Sun fed
Resting in toilMuse
© REDCAT
Plants seeds
See inspiration grow
One
Small step
It felt hugeTwo
Attached files
Just an applicationThree
Text samples
Deciding next yearFour
Full seasons
To write freeFive
© REDCAT
Senses full
Storys to tell
Migraine
My day in a Nutshell © REDCAT
Lights stabbing
Mind pain addled
Been battling a migraine all day long. And had an important application to finish. But realized my inner saboteurs and critics won’t let me sleep unless I write something. A short hay(na)ku was all I could think up.
DAY 1 – Build a New Start
DAY 2 – Beloved Bookstore
DAY 3 – Sunshine and Hail
DAY 4 – Isolation Dating
DAY 5 –Staring out a Windowpane
DAY 6 – Casanova Comes Closer
DAY 7 – Swirling Colors of my Mind
DAY 8 – White – Red – Black
DAY 9 – Different World After
DAY 10 – Spring Hay(na)ku
DAY 11 – Love – Hay(na)ku
DAY 12 – Make Art – Triolet inspired
by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
DAY 13 – What did you think would happen
to a child left on my doorstep?
DAY 14 – Ballad of the Lost Poet
DAY 15 – Writer’s class – Hay(na)ku
DAY 16 – What is a Nomad without a Tribe?
DAY 17 – Pale Spring, Here Again, Nature Awake
DAY 18 – Spring Day in the Garden
DAY 19 – Close Couplets
DAY 20 – Lost in Love’s First Flush
DAY 21 – She Tasted Like Memory
DAY 22 – Struggling Mind
DAY 23 – Written in the book of dust
DAY 24 – At the end of every week, Friday-Cozy!
DAY 25 – Slip, Crack, Shatter
DAY 26 – Humans Really Don’t Know
DAY 27 – April Rain
DAY 28 – Greeting the Watch Horse
DAY 29 – Letter of Hope
DAY 30 – Witches Walpurgis Night Preparation
Mouth
Tender smile
Uttering sweet nothingsEyes
Looking deep
Intimate shared awarenessArms
Around me
Drawing me inClose
Breaths mingling
Catching on lustKiss
Lips meeting
Two hearts rushCaress
Skin contact
Night of passionHands
Exploring bodies
Touching, teasing, pleasuringWhimper
Tongue licking
Fingers pinching nippleMoan
© REDCAT
Enter slow
Together we glow
I found the hay(na)ku form both joyous and flowing. A refreshing breeze in these trying times, this is my third one.
DAY 1 – Build a New Start
DAY 2 – Beloved Bookstore
DAY 3 – Sunshine and Hail
DAY 4 – Isolation Dating
DAY 5 –Staring out a Windowpane
DAY 6 – Casanova Comes Closer
DAY 7 – Swirling Colors of my Mind
DAY 8 – White – Red – Black
DAY 9 – Different World After
DAY 10 – Spring Hay(na)ku
DAY 11 – Love – Hay(na)ku
DAY 12 – Make Art – Triolet inspired
by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
DAY 13 – What did you think would happen
to a child left on my doorstep?
DAY 14 – Ballad of the Lost Poet
DAY 15 – Writer’s class – Hay(na)ku
DAY 16 – What is a Nomad without a Tribe?
DAY 17 – Pale Spring, Here Again, Nature Awake
DAY 18 – Spring Day in the Garden
DAY 19 – Close Couplets
DAY 20 – Lost in Love’s First Flush
DAY 21 – She Tasted Like Memory
DAY 22 – Struggling Mind
DAY 23 – Written in the book of dust
DAY 24 – At the end of every week, Friday-Cozy!
DAY 25 – Slip, Crack, Shatter
DAY 26 – Humans Really Don’t Know
DAY 27 – April Rain
DAY 28 – Greeting the Watch Horse
DAY 29 – Letter of Hope
DAY 30 – Witches Walpurgis Night Preparation
Awake
Not asleep
Company you keepTalk
Worry sharing
Hand hold caringSteadfast
Strong pillar
Repels depressive killerForthright
Honest, straight
Restoring lost faithAccepting
Big, small
Trauma scarred allTrust
Freely given
True heart livingFriendship
Fortifying presence
Find my essenceStrength
Along way
Even when astraySafe
© REDCAT
To be
Realize all me
Warm
Spring sun
Awakening new lifeSongbirds
Singing spring
Celebrating new seasonBranches
Buds bursting
New spring greenWind
Trees swaying
Season honoring danceFlowers
First growth
Riot of colorsGrass
Dry tinder
Green beneath brownSquirrel
Spring foraging
Pine cone seedsBlackbirds
Heads cocked
Listening for wormsSunshine
© REDCAT
Wind, hail
Spring weather prevail
Today I’m trying a new poet form, thanks to today’s prompt, the hay(na)ku. Created by the poet Eileen Tabios and named by Vince Gotera, the hay(na)ku is a variant on the haiku. A hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza, where the first line has one word, the second line has two words, and the third line has three words.
DAY 1 – Build a New Start
DAY 2 – Beloved Bookstore
DAY 3 – Sunshine and Hail
DAY 4 – Isolation Dating
DAY 5 –Staring out a Windowpane
DAY 6 – Casanova Comes Closer
DAY 7 – Swirling Colors of my Mind
DAY 8 – White – Red – Black
DAY 9 – Different World After
DAY 10 – Spring Hay(na)ku
DAY 11 – Love – Hay(na)ku
DAY 12 – Make Art – Triolet inspired
by Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
DAY 13 – What did you think would happen
to a child left on my doorstep?
DAY 14 – Ballad of the Lost Poet
DAY 15 – Writer’s class – Hay(na)ku
DAY 16 – What is a Nomad without a Tribe?
DAY 17 – Pale Spring, Here Again, Nature Awake
DAY 18 – Spring Day in the Garden
DAY 19 – Close Couplets
DAY 20 – Lost in Love’s First Flush
DAY 21 – She Tasted Like Memory
DAY 22 – Struggling Mind
DAY 23 – Written in the book of dust
DAY 24 – At the end of every week, Friday-Cozy!
DAY 25 – Slip, Crack, Shatter
DAY 26 – Humans Really Don’t Know
DAY 27 – April Rain
DAY 28 – Greeting the Watch Horse
DAY 29 – Letter of Hope
DAY 30 – Witches Walpurgis Night Preparation
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