I decided to write a haiku diary, one a day (not exactly perfectly aligned to haiku rules), as a sort of creativity and mindfulness practice.
8
my friend is turning into Snow White
little bluebirds and fawns and butterflies
flock to her
9
I was falling asleep, almost gone
when a hummingbird flew into my 3rd eye
stopped there, buzzing wildly
10
my friend doesn’t “have” cancer,
she is “dealing with it,” and that, she says,
changes her inside
11
up early, fog close and personal
so gray, so chill, so still, you don’t know
it’s summer
12
he studies tai chi and sees his movement
happening without muscles, his body
just energy flowing
13
merging with my workshops as I create them
feeling the ebb and flow, the details of sequence
so I can release the outcome
14
I watered the garden deeply
and in the late low sun, the dirt is black
there is a puffy green joy
Copyright by Penney Peirce