Inspired by Haiku

I sift through this process of grieving and balancing living the new normal. There are plenty of topics to cover about the subject of infertility, miscarriage and baby loss. I have organized my thoughts and created calendars and made notes of what I’ll write next.

Today, I decided to simply take a mental break from the brainstorming of my daily work routine. I took to writing haikus. Actually, I was inspired by my mother-in-law. She just began to share some of her poetry, the first two being haikus. I’m no poet, certainly not, but I liked the idea of creating a haiku. I adhered to only the simple rules of syllables, as one would with a haiku. The rules of 5, 7, 5. Five syllables. Seven syllables. Five again to end. I embraced this challenge. Although I could be free to write what I chose, there is a set of rules, boundaries. They’re short. There was no excuse.

Today, I wrote three.

 

These, of course, are about my experiences. The last, about hope.

Because, as Emily Dickinson says, “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers” and oh how right she is.

XO, Isabel

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