We walked to heal our hearts and minds. The wind cut through like glass but the sunset set the ripples alight on the water. It was spring and a time of birth and regeneration. New life blossoming all around. But we walked with heavy eyes.
We walk often, it gives us chance to talk, or not as the moment requires. We walk to fill our souls with the soothing spectacle of the distant mountains and listen to the gentle lap-lap and let it wash over us. We are losing a loved one who is between the autumn and winter of his life and the knowledge that he is slipping away is becoming more than a whisper on the wind.
Spring blossoms slowly
Sunset cuts through the anguish
Life melts like glacier.
©Alison Jean Hankinson
This is for d’Verse.
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“Life melts like glacier.” Simply superb.
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Many thanks. Much love to you. XXX
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Walks are definitely healing, Alison. I love the descriptive detail in ‘The wind cut through like glass but the sunset set the ripples alight on the water’. They also help you to process pain and understand situations’, and that is such a wonderful haiku – ‘Life melts like glacier’.
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Thank you Kim, much love. XXX
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🙂 xxx
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Another sad poem, the imagery of the seasons and slipping between them adds to the poignancy.
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Your haiku for this haibun is beautiful, Alison. That slipping away is such a sad time for those who love.
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Nice line in the haiku: “Sunset cuts through the anguish”
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Thank you Frank. X
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A lovely haibu n Alison. The descriptions bring us right into the moment. The haiku is superb as well. Sunset cuts through the anguish…oh my. That says everything.
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Love to you always. XXXX
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❤ ❤ ❤
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In the first place, sorry for the loss you’re about to experience. Walking is healing, indeed. Superb haiku to wonderful prose.
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I too am sad that you are losing a loved one Alison and know that need of a silent walk.
Your words are beautiful.
Anna
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Yes, and you are building a memorial out of the stones of your words. A road to peace eventually.
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“Life melts like glacier” – what a fabulous line!
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“More than a whisper on the wind”… a beautiful description of unsettling mutterings that are heard to hear. Have strength.
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Thank you. XXX
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A beautiful expression in this concise haibun. You’ve captured the difficult transition of losing a loved one and you’ve done it so gracefully.
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Thank you. XXX
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There’s something affirming about walking which you’ve captured here – the meditative, the quiet and the talk. Nature doesn’t always reflect the rhythms of our own lives (it’s the poets’ conceit after all). Best to you in this difficult time.
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thanks to you. Much love Alison
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When life leave us in spring, the contrast between the sorrow and rebirth leaves you in ambiguity… you captured it so well in the haiku
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Thank you Bjorn.
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Sometimes it does melt like a glacier.
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Beautiful! I love this line: “We walk often, it gives us chance to talk, or not as the moment requires.” It is a perfect lead-in to the reason for want to talk, or not. So sorry for your impending loss, but thankful you have poetry to help process the grief.
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Thank you and much love to you. XXXX
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A powerful haibun…a walking meditation…
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I’m sorry to hear of this painful journey with your loved one, Alison. The pain certainly gives a gorgeous clarity to your haibun.
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