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Haiku & Other Poetry, Random Rants, tutto e niente

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 🙂

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Dare to Dream

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Just a girl they say

Just one more pop wanna be

Just watch me she says

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This haiku was inspired by this wonderful piece of art by Vincent Giarrano provided courtesy of the photo challenge at Mind Love Misery Menagerie and by the train of thought inspired the word of the day (daredevil) courtesy of Tales from the Mind of Kristian.

 

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The Luck of a New Year

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Singularity
Expanding in space and time
As day dawns again

As day dawn again
Spinning ‘round the milky way
A new year is born

A new year is born
As space and time expanded
Singular no more

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Photo by Free Nature Stock on Pexels.com

This cascading style haiku was inspired by Heeding Haiku’s Challenge to write a haiku incorporating the idea of good luck and by Sue’s Photo Prompt.

Seeing Sue’s picture made me think of our good luck that the Big Bang (AKA theory of singularity) gave us this beautiful world as well as the space and time we live in.

Here’s hoping we do a better job of stewardship in the coming year.

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Winter Comes

Tina Stewart Brakebill

Unbidden flurry

Nature’s scythe forsaking fall      

Fractured and formless

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This is dedicated to my northern family and friends enduring their second (or is it their third?) early snowfall of the year. Florida has its faults (and boy this summer was HOT and LONG) but aaaaahh the winters are SWEET.

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Bike/Skyway Bridge photo courtesy of author’s awesome spouse. 

Thanks to the following for the inspiration for this haiku. Visit their sites for info on the prompts and for some great writing.

Sue’s snow photo prompt and Putting my Feet in the Dirt’s word prompt (fractured and formless) and Heeding Haiku for asking me to think about seasons and Autumn’s end.