Elements of My Life
Quadru-Haiku
Our love is substance.
Sands shift, mountains fall … We make
our own gravity.
* * * *
My children are change.
Ice to steam to stream, flowing
around unseen bends.
* * * *
Good art is freedom.
A cage door opens, and thoughts
with wings rise and roam.
* * * *
Writing is passion.
Words erupt!—With searing tongs,
shape them to hold truth.
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The framework for this poem is indebted to an interpretation of the four elements in "Avatar: The Last Airbender" (a show I have never watched, but which a friend taught me to appreciate).
Here's another four-part haiku I'd like to share with you:
About the Creator
Sonia Heidi Unruh
I love: my husband and children; all who claim me as family or friend; the first bite of chocolate; the last blue before sunset; solving puzzles; stroking cats; finding myself by writing; losing myself in reading; the Creator who is love.
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Wonderful piece.