Harsh lessons we learned,
or just screaming at the wind?
Mercy, Mother Earth.
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Cathy holmes
Canadian family girl with a recently discovered love for writing. Other loves include animals and sports.
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The Body Remembers
The body remembers what the mind tries to outrun. It remembers every storm, every rupture, every season of survival you forced yourself through. It remembers the nights you held yourself together with nothing but breath and grit. It remembers the mornings you rose anyway, even when rising felt like lifting a collapsed building off your own chest. The body keeps its own archive, written in muscle, breath, pulse, and instinct. Long after the mind rewrites the story, the body still carries the original draft.
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Eeek, that looks like my backyard right now!
Screaming at the wind... Love it. Excellent Haiku!
Let it out❗❗❗🎯💯💋💌🥰 I Like this 💌💋😉
What I find both most appealing and most frustrating about haiku is the challenge of getting across a point quickly in so few words. You did this very well.
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Nope, we don't deserve any mercy. This was a powerful Haiku!
Powerful and thought-provoking, Cathy! Well done :)
Splendid!!!💕💖😊
Amen to that. So true ❤️
I'm curious about your writing process. You pair the visual and the poems so well. Which comes first?
Oof, that one hits and rightly so. When will we learn? Excellent work, my friend.
Sadly most of us don't seem to have learned much. ..if I were Mother Earth, I probably would have wiped humanity out already, but I'm cranky like that. Thank goodness she is more merciful than me. 😜. Very well done!
great job...I don't know that we have learned. I hope those mercies continue Excellent Cathy