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The Fisherman and the Sea
Under Pink Blossoms
Green Choices
Inspirare
The Spookfest
Adieu
Attitudes
The Missing Candies
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The Magic Moment
Give Me Wings So I Might Fly
Whistle Twice for Yes
The Last Pilgrimage
The Inhabitants
Lord What Fools These Mortals Be
Unwanted
Escape to Paradise
The Problem with Women
Meg in Her Bath
Endure and Sing
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThis is so beautiful, Carrie. Thank you for a lovely Christmas gift!
Thank you, Fuji. This was my first attempt at Haiku, so I was a little nervous about sharing.
Hello Carrie, my first thought was your comment to Fuji about feeling nervous, so please let me just say that you have nothing at all to feel nervous about. If you look a little deeper as to why we write, it’s because we feel the need to express what we feel, and to share it. And we should never ever let the inner doubt surface. I know every member sees The Voice.club… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleThank you for your kind words, Eric. I’m so grateful for this site and all the wonderful people, both willing to share their writing and to pass considerate comments on my own. I always feel nervous about trying new things but it is nice to be able to share amongst friends. I tend to like being a bit more descriptive in my writing, so the very severe limit in haiku is definitely… Read more »
Hi Carrie – I understand what you said above about being “a little nervous” 🙂 Now I study handwriting, so I volunteered for the Voice.club to write these Haiku. I also get a bit nervous trying to scribe using a “digital pen”, but as Eric said, we are a family friendly club among friends. Using the apple pen is not as accurate as authentic pen and paper, so please forgive my messy… Read more »
Thank you Culture Dragon for your comment, and for taking the time to scribe out the Haiku for all of us. I actually have to handwrite my stories / poetry before typing it up. I find it very hard to get my initial ideas into anything resembling order if I try to type it up immediately. And it has to be a pencil, not a pen. We writers can be a strange… Read more »
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To Leave Comments - Please SignIn with GoogleA late Christmas present.Thank you, Carrie. Just found this one now and you definitely have a gift for poetry. Haiku is such an interesting form and for your first attempt, you have the key elements: present tense, focus, simplicity, objectivity, an allusion to nature, juxtaposition (in the final line where life endures), and you captured the essence of the moment. Basically, you nailed it ? . That’s amazing. Also, I had… Read more »
Thanks Andrew, I’m glad you enjoyed it. I like the challenge of trying new things. I’m not sure that I have a gift for poetry, but I find inspiration in nature and that helps the words flow.