Time weather seasons
gleaned from a cut tree's ring map.
We can see the past.
Writer's notes. Voweling to never write a haiku again after writing eight mountain haiku poems and forty-four blue haiku poems. Then, this happened.
The challenge...
"Write a haiku about time.
A time capsule is a historic cache of information that is intended to communicate the spirit of that time with people in the future. For this challenge, we are asking you to capture how a haiku can be a vehicle to represent a period of time or express the feeling of time."
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Babs Iverson
Barbara J Iversen, also known as Babs Iverson, lives in Texas and loves her grandkids to the moon and back. After writing one story, she found that writing has many benefits especially during a pandemic and a Texas-size Arctic Blast.
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I promise her. I'd do anything for her. She's my mom. Even as Lanie and Deanna are flying home, Mom is scrappy fighting dying. She lays too still in that too-big bed with all the toasty white hospital blankets, in the south tower, at the broad end of a long slow-turning corner that delivers me again to her private room with the view she can't see through, with the beeping that tells us nothing new, and all these ice chips she can't swallow, and a flood of well-intentioned nurses who cannot do a damned thing all the same.
By Christy Munson3 days ago in Fiction
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And one more haiku was worth it.
Awesome, Babs! I love this. Tree rings also came to mind when I heard the new haiku challenge was about time. Such a clear, beautiful way to visually mark its passage. 🪵💚 You did the trees justice!
Excellent take on the challenge! Loved it. And 44 blue Haikus in the 12 days we had to submit them phew! that has to be a record of some kind. You are the Haiku Queen! 💖
I loved this. Cut from a tree rings map brilliant!
Excellent Babs 😍
I had a friend write haiku's every day for a month last year. She said she wore herself out with that and decided to skip a year of my Poem a Day in February. So far she has skipped. You do excellent work on haiku's my friend!😊💕
This is a truly amazing and intriguing concept, Babs! Super well done!
Cracking idea!
Very lovely, Babs!
Whoaaa, loved this concept! So brilliant!
I hear ya! Beautifully done,. though. :)
Great! I wouldn't have thought about that but if trees rings could talk what might we hear? Greet take on the challenge.
So glad you did write this one Babs. Along with dogs, the ocean, birds and flowers; I love trees 🌳 and they tell so much. Beautiful. ❤️
Love this Babs and love your haiku tenacity! 😊
Oh I love this!!! I've always been fascinated with tree rings and what can be gleaned from them. So cool, Babs!
Nicely done, my friend
Excellent observations is a few lines
As simple as haikus can be, they are deceptively challenging to write well. And write them well you do 😊
I’m glad you decided to write another haiku!! :) Nice imagery in this!