Blush velvet evening sky kisses luscious perfumed air fragrant breeze of wildflowers heady scent of green grass, magic abides in glossy pink porcelain champagne clouds as the lonely woman recites poetry to the dazzling stars, remembering every line of his handsome face.
Author’s Note:In this crossroads episode, we have been given 2 haiku with which we are to create a ‘fusion’ haiku and then write a troiku with the newly created haiku. Below are the two haiku we are to work with:
windy weather calling the flowers by name each nods depth of a flower flying away with the bee some mystery
“Surviving is more important than any label.
Never apologize for staying alive.”
When it comes to living my life, I have learned that it’s okay to lean on the people you love and trust the most. It’s not easy — now or when this mess began, but without that help, I don’t know what would have become of me. When I was a child, my classmates liked to make fun of me because I looked like a boy. But to me, the boys in my family weren’t the ones being assaulted every night. And in some ways, I wished I could become one. But those wishes were lost to the wind and I learned how to live as best as I could. Perhaps that makes me a bad feminist, to lean on others, rather than taking care of myself. I’m okay with that. Surviving, to me, is far more important…
“Women continue to do what we
always do across history —
challenge the system.”
Would it really be so bad to consider a woman equal to a man? Would it be so terrible to think a woman’s intelligence shouldn’t be overlooked? Perhaps, if given a true chance to prove ourselves, rather than relying on any bias, women might hold more power. Perhaps it’s all wishful thinking. After all, the ones with power are less likely to share it. But that’s okay, maybe one day a utopia will fall upon us and we’ll all become feminists. But until then, women will continue to do what we have always done across history — challenge the system to change.
“Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.”
~ Norman Vincent Peale
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“Begin the day with a grateful heart and an attitude of positive thinking. Granted, we live in difficult times as our world spins into the next day, with political nonsense, climate change, and everything else that is negative break your spirit. If we allow this to continue, then, the outside forces will win. Take that negativity and make a wrong into a right. We are the ones that need to stand up and say, “We’ve had enough!”
~ Beckie Cutler ~
BC 2019
Quote Credits: Brainy Quotes and Me, Myself, and I.
“Licence my roving hands, and let them go before, behind, between, above, below.” . John Donne
Again
Of nape and lips
lobes and lids,
a drift of hair,
a flex of sinew,
to draw the same breath
finding that ancient rhythm,
and hand to the rise
describing the cleft and valley
places too dally,
a mind etched,
longing invoked,
an excursion I will take again.