My words are dark stones, dry and fading at night. The burdens of city life staining my tongue ash and grey. I soak it in watercolors and river of calm. I am very much aware that these negative thoughts are transients, like autumn leaves slipping away in the mercurial winds. Each morning, I decide to paint my thoughts with nature's vibrant brushstrokes. Why? Because I know that I can heal myself, restore myself again when I am out of balance. My writing is therapeutic and as I write positive affirming words, so I am lifted on wings of serenity.
pumpkin-yellow leaf,
a still canvas of autumn-
gulls fly overhead-
a still canvas of autumn-
gulls fly overhead-
Posted for Dverse Poets Pub - Haibun Monday, hosted by Toni (Kanzansakura). Thanks for the visit ~
Ah Grace, this is wonderful. Your words are beautiful -- your imagery stunning. And yes....writing is healing, affirming, a self treatment if you will. I'm smiling...as I think of the haibun I just posted....so plain spoken, simple. Yours and Bjorn's so stunningly beautiful. Ah my --- the diversity of dverse :) Happy Haibun Monday!
ReplyDeleteFirst I love what you did with the title... and I do understand so well to have that connection with nature every morning. That is what I love with bicycling to work. Your haiku is lovely and connects so much to season.
ReplyDeleteYes! So healing. I love that joyful intention every morning. I love the image of the stones fading and drying. Lovely seasonal haiku, too.
ReplyDeleteI like to think of mine as therapeutic as well. It makes sense that it is a way to heal oneself which is a positive approach to poetry.
ReplyDeleteWriting is therapeutic indeed. You paint your thoughts well. XX
ReplyDeleteSo beautifully written. We all indulge in the auto-therapy of words!
ReplyDeleteNature is my refuge as well -- especially the forest. I try to go there every day to heal my urban wounds.
ReplyDeleteI do the same.
ReplyDeleteThere's such a sad undertone to this haibun. A mix of wonder and sadness, I think.
ReplyDeleteJust to take it in and connect is a good way to self detect.
ReplyDeleteEmotionally effective. The haiku resolves all that passed before.
ReplyDeleterestoration and balance. I can relate to that!
ReplyDeleteSo refreshing is your poetry, Grace, and like a watercolor is. Light, not heavy...soft, not brooding.
ReplyDeleteAutumn's here! The time when the earth is at it's prettiest in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI love the extended metaphor that runs througMout the haibun and the colours are so vivid, Grace, yet gentle and calm.
ReplyDeleteThis is amazing! The gist poured in these lines and that to with sweet healing power.
ReplyDeleteI like your second line Grace and how you imply what city life tastes like to you and when taken in concert with the first line about your words you convey a sense of lost art. But then you third line offers a prescription to make it through the season. Maybe I should look for water color puddles and calm creeks? Well done ma'am.
ReplyDeleteWe poets are self-healing creatures, for sure Grace. And our words are the soothing salve. No one else can "fix" us. They have no clue where to begin like we do.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your work very much. It inspires me.
I can't forget the image of you soaking your "tongue" in watercolors and calm. Poetry is a form of self-soothing for me, too. Beautifully expressed!
ReplyDeleteYou have put your thoughts together in a very beautiful way...watercolor.
ReplyDeleteI love "My words are dark stones, dry and fading at night"!
ReplyDeleteA beautiful haibun Grace. 'Each morning, I decide to paint my thoughts with nature's vibrant brushstrokes' is a powerful healer :o) xxx
ReplyDeleteA stellar haibun, with an inspiriting message that is so germane in these troubled times when, I think we must all be proactive in keeping ourselves in a balanced state of mind ... restoring ourselves through communion with nature and thoughtful introspection.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous work, Grace! I love, 'The burdens of city life staining my tongue ash and grey. I soak it in watercolors and river of calm.'
ReplyDeleteI like how you use the flight of autumn leaves to show the departure of negative thoughts and as part of your healing haiku. Janice (ontheland)
ReplyDeleteYou have an amazing writing style Grace. It's always a pleasure to read your poems.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week!
I love the positive affirmations of this post. Much needed reminder.
ReplyDelete- Nimue
loved the haiku...and the thoughts...beautiful!! I am reading you after a long time...missed you!
ReplyDeleteFascinating that it is intentional positive self-therapy -- using sensual and nature.
ReplyDeleteI love the your beautiful imagery and the idea of painting oneself, or one's thoughts, like a watercolor. The haiku is lovely.
ReplyDeleteThe first line alone is so inticing! Thank you!
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