This haiku is a contribution to Ronovan's Haiku Challenge #205. This week's prompt words are tyrant and hope. If you are interested in participating, go to RonovanWrites and check out his weekly challenge published every Monday - it comes with "how-to" if you are new to writing haiku. Challenge yourself! 🙂 tyrannical you quiet words like rain … Continue reading Words like rain #Haiku 205
Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy I’m reviewing a left ventriculography from a man with chest pain, MI ruled out, his wife dead for a post-crash hour. The scan shows his cardiac apex bulging with each beat, shaped like a takotsubo, an octopus trap a Japanese cardiologist recalled from his childhood … Continue reading Takotsubo – the shape of a broken heart
“Mum, mum, he hurt me, he hurt me!” Sophie runs across the room, hurling herself onto my lap. She curls tight and places her head on my chest, waiting for my soothing words. Peace is shattered. I sigh. The decibels had gone up, steadily and I knew it was a matter of time before Sophie … Continue reading Memento
Ronovan's Haiku Challenge prompt words - grief and pine - hit a spot this week. So first, my haiku. Sorrow like a storm Cleansed the debris of this farce No longer pining. At the same time, thinking of Colleen's Writer's Quote Wednesday - to be by a poet this week - brought this contribution. e.h. … Continue reading Dare to fly
RonovanWrites Haiku Challenge #49 - this week's prompt words are 'gab' and 'lock'. Tough indeed! Join in, see what you can do 🙂 and have fun! Liar close thy mouth The truth will out, don’t pretend Lock that precious heart. - FlorenceT © 2015 Copyright reserved. The author asserts her moral and legal rights over … Continue reading #HaikuChallenge 49 @RonovanWrites – Lock, Gab
RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Prompt Challenge #48 - this week's prompt words are 'inspire' and 'loss'. Reluctant to use the word 'inspire', out came the thesaurus. Lo and behold 🙂 inspire => impel => give rise to => cause => prompt. None prompts sense of loss Like the beautiful and rich Yearning abundance. - … Continue reading #HaikuChallenge 48 @RonovanWrites – Inspire, Loss
A love song, most definitely tinged with sadness. Does this song embody to 'live in the moment'? Somehow it doesn't feel like it... It seems to reflect the malady of the 'modern' age - the transient nature of 'love'? On one hand, the longing to experience the ideal romantic love - the subject of … Continue reading Love you like I’m gonna lose you
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What does it mean? Being lost, to be lost... It is the opportunity for adventures so 'I' can be found. I can't believe it's over I watched the whole thing fall And I never saw the writing that was on the wall If I'd only knew The days were slipping past That the … Continue reading Pondering
Sometimes We fail to pay attention Fail to perceive the changes Fail to see the ones we love Sometimes We fail to rein in The thoughts in our heads The images in our mind Sometimes We fail to recognize The life we have missed The ones we love and lost It is … Continue reading Sometimes…
A fleeting sensation Not to be mentioned The erratic beat of the heart An obsession of the mind starts Catching a glimpse of paradise. Enticing words replete This world beyond complete A gentle sway the mind espy This need to no longer cry The boundless possibilities. A cherished interlude Love forever eludes Ashes of once … Continue reading A fleeting sensation
All the mem'ries Where have they gone? Though you may search They are no longer. So I now speak A friend who cares How long will you Continue on. Losing yourself Hating yourself Finding yourself Vicious cycle. While the world turns But you don't see What you have lost What you will lose. Perhaps it … Continue reading Memories
This poem was told by a Kwakiutl Indian of Southern Alaska to a missionary in 1861. (I extracted it from a TED talk which I referred to in my post, Science and romantic love.) How earthy, grounded, real and raw... imagine if this is a poem from a loved one to you... How would it … Continue reading A love poem by a Kwakiutl Indian
It must have fallen out of the bag…thank goodness I came across it and not another. How would I explain it? I knew I should have packed and carried it on my own. Seeing his handwriting, faded and familiar … still hurt, and yet I have kept every one of them. The memories of our … Continue reading Day 5 The letter
Grief is an overwhelming emotional response to loss, which can be expressed as anger, sorrow, anguish, despondency, mortification… to name a few. At times, it is recognizable. Yet there are many instances when ‘it’ does not resemble anything we have been led to understand – the gaiety, the risk-taking, the impassivity perhaps. Recognizable or not, … Continue reading Response to loss
