Thanks to all of you that PRIVATELY sent me e-mails asking if I’m ok after my last Haiku post. (For those who just want a follow-up haiku, you’ll have to scroll down to the end . . .)
When I write or paint I just plunk it down – whether it be words or paint. I plunk rather quickly and only sometimes go back and tweak. If it takes more than tweaking a word or two, a painted area or so I just delete, or discard. I call it the creative process. It’s possibly ADD!
When I wrote the Bridge haiku, as per my usual, I just wrote – counting on my figures not to exceed the 17 syllables – of course!
I was too tired to take the time to sit back and reflect because I had been at my office all day, and evening, sitting and back reflecting on what all my clients were feeling!
Haiku #1 for me is just a fact: Hey! We are all just in the NOW, even if we keep trying to get here by meditating, reminding and unwinding it’s all in the now.
Silently waiting
straddling my future and past
knowing only now
Our human orientation of “waiting for something in the future – a trip, a cure, an event, a different feeling . . . or dwelling on past hurts, loves, hopes . . .. Our thoughts rush ahead or dredge up “past nows” while we remain in the present nanosecond.
We can’t be anywhere else except in the now.
Haiku #2: This one’s a bit tougher. I have had – have – relationships in my life that are very important, very close and are no more – relatives, friends, colleagues, clients, pets, through death, separation and time. All reside only in my memory . Memory is only “human bridge” I’m conscious of while on this earth.
Connections broken
Don’t talk to me of bridges
know I am alone
My belief is that being human is a striving for connection that comes from an inner longing for connection to pure, “unconditional” love. A yearning so deep that it drives us to behaviours and choices that can create pain which then creates more yearning (and fear of loss). Not sure if I’m making sense?
It’s deeper for me than an intellectual understanding. It generates from My Baha’i belief is that our human journey is about loss and detachment. Detachment, disconnection, from earthly “things”, people, places, labels, longings and experience connection to God’s unconditional love.
Un-Haiku #3:
Connections broken
Don’t talk to me of bridges
know I am alone
with God.
Nothing more or less
Not for me to understand
just believe
It’s called faith
Haiku #4: Can’t say that my faith is so deep it totally sustains me. It doesn’t.
I question, I cry
longing for the elusive,
a bridge to somewhere.

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