Tag: haiku

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

when dreams were purple

Tina Stewart Brakebill

smoke on the water

riffing on a new guitar

teenage fantasy

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This prompt immediately brought me back to middle school when every aspiring teenage rock band played this song. Aaah the memories of being at dances in my seventh grade gym listening to a group of eight-grade boys rock this tune.

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Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple

Thanks for the memories Ronovan Writes!

Haiku & Other Poetry, tutto e niente

in the stillness

Tina Stewart Brakebill

in the stillness, light

pushing against the darkness

a promise laid bare

sunrise under cloudy sky illustration

Thanks to Sue and her #writephoto challenge and photo.

I’ve been struggling with … a lot these past few weeks. And as I try to dig myself out of my funk, writing this reminded me that I’ll be OK. The light will return if I let it in. (I hope.)

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Pondering Happiness

Tina Stewart Brakebill

happiness unfound
awake, we dream of the day
when dawn returns joy

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Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com

Questions that occur to me as I ponder happiness:

  • Can happiness be “unfound”? And if it can, does that mean it’s been lost or just remains unknown?
  • Is ignorance really bliss?
  • Is happy is as happy does?
  • And is there really such a thing as the Bluebird of Happiness?

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  • How do we quantify happiness? Will we know when we’ve reached peak happy?
  • Can we ever understand the path to happiness? Is it a result of tangible actions or just a function of brain chemistry?

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I can’t really answer my own questions but thanks to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie for challenging me to think about HAPPINESS  and to Sue’s Photo Challenge for leading me to the Bluebird of Happiness 🙂