Poetry Friday: #haikuforhealing

 

I won’t lie.  Since last month, the second Tuesday of the month, I have been in a slump.  Write? Why? As I told Michelle, I wanted to participate in her DMC and while I made lists of words, the poem wouldn’t fall out onto the page.  There are times when pushing the river doesn’t work.

And them last night, uploading the Check It  Out blog post, I stumbled into the work that Mary Lee is doing and her proposal to write #haikuforhealing.  She says it best here:

My creative spirit, who has been sitting out on the porch with her head between her knees for the last couple of weeks, looked up and nodded. Yes, that seems right, she said. A response to the news of the day, shared in the concise metaphorical form of the haiku. 

 

#haikuforhealing

This is exactly what my heart and my creative  spirit needed to shake off the slump.  In reading others who are participating, I have two haiku to share today (one for yesterday and one for today)

I stole the last line in Mary Lee’s haiku to begin my first for the month:

light the lantern
behind the cracks of darkness
quiet murmurings

And from  A Word Edgewise, her last line becomes my first line:

rest, rest winter tide

as I scatter his ashes
the lunar pull lessens

©jone rush macculloch

#haikuforhealing

PS  New Year Poetry Postcard Exchange:  Good-bye 2016, Hello 2017!  Details HERE.

Poetry Friday is at Wee Words for Wee Ones.