This year, for National Poetry Day, we did things a little differently. Most of the rest of the Poetry World [TM] seems to consider Twitter a place to network or advertise. Making art or poetry here is very much not the done thing. Presumably this is because you don’t make any money when stuff is given away for free. Personally, that’s a dumb way to approach creativity. Stuff gets produced regardless, thus enjoyment comes not from critical acclaim but the experience of creativity.
So, I scheduled 24 Haiku, with accompanying .GIF imagery, and it just happened on the day. There was no ground rent, or worry that nobody would show up. Lots of people saw it, and it made me happy. Honestly, what’s the problem here?
If you click on the Tweet, it’ll take you to Twitter and you can read it for yourself, but if that’s too hard, here’s the entire thing here in full, all 24 stanzas. ENJOY.
The Spaces Between
The spaces between
fear, success: enlightenment
providing reason.
Begin new journey
without judgement: regarding
benefits to soul.
Dispense with anger
jealousy dropped: replacing
hatred, add belief.
Pride, luxury no
longer desired: instead calm
considered response.
First step completed:
time to eat well: consumption
affects mind, body.
Readdress diet
every mouthful: mindfulness
allows feelings place.
Walking every day,
increase to run: smallest steps
transforming a life.
Gym time’s not scary
start routines small: keep moving,
escape entropy.
Reduction of Things
material wealth: take stock,
living matters more.
Question relations:
challenge convention: mindset
altering outlook.
A key to knowledge
self-reflection: challenging
traditional past.
When all this is done
take a step back: growth evolves
from long-term habits.
The spaces between
experience: involvement
breeds fresh impression.
Consciousness opens,
receptive mind: preceding
course alteration.
Thousands of options
presented whole: pick and choose
the best way forward.
Reinvent prospects
identify goals: right time
for new employment?
Hobbies, interests,
define passion: perception
sharpened by belief.
All of these guidelines
simple focus: look to self
healing, redemption.
Put your blame aside
accept notion: ego takes,
allow soul to give.
In quietest moment
loudest truth remains solid,
malleable self.
Become new, own change;
embrace evolution’s march
transmute existence.
Only by assent
freedom accepted, can life
progress as fruitful.
Let go of bitter
past and present: look upwards
understand the vast.
This being, perfect
cosmic miracle: release
altered energy.
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