Our Gracious host Colleen Chesebro said WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY!
This week, Jude chose the words for us to select our synonyms:
I chose a haiku this time.
Search & Lost.
The quest has been hard
He had tried to do his best
The truth was not found
Author: willowdot21
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Eleven years ago I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " not quite but with the help of a walking stick and as long as I do not stand or sit in one position for too long, I am still standing! Update I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust, I will of been married 50yrs plus this year . Pain and boredom are my enemies now, I have to find different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and hopefully in to light ?? I need to update this a little here. I have worked very hard over the years since my accident, I go to the gym regularly, I have a Pilates class and a core class once a week . The guys at the gym and my Pilates teacher cajoled, teased, bullied and encouraged me to abandon my walking stick! :) My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and as strongly as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well. I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits. View all posts by willowdot21
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Your story in your bio truly touched me. You must be a very special lady. Have a blessed week and may more ‘roses’ come to grow in your garden. 🙂
Thank you very much for your kind words they have really lifted me 💜💜💜
Great job, Sis!
Thank you Sis 💜
Truth can be hard to find…
It’s very good at hiding 😉
“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” ― Walt Whitman
And that’s the truth! ☺️💜💜
Indeed so… I’m finding Walt Whitman’s book ‘Leaves of Grass’ amazing and magical…
Really I have never read any of his works. His Wiki is interesting 💜
Here is a few lines I’ve scanned.. I hope the link works okhttps://1drv.ms/u/s!Asumt4cZ9A65hN1k74LeY1hYCO51sg?e=qzjUkB
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Thank you the link worked once I removed the ‘OK’ very nice.💜
I’m glad it worked for you. .. I am not good at this modern technology. .. and I just bumble along 😄🌏
You are bumbling well, we all bumble along💜💜
Yeah .. nice to there are fellow ‘Bumblers’ 😀
Hundreds of us Ivor 💜💜
Beautiful and true 💜
Perfection!
Thank you 💜
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Very nice, Willow.
Thank you Robbie 💜😚
Thank you Robbie 💜
Truth can be a sneaky so and so! Nice one Willow. ❤
True, and thanks Marje 💜💜💜
What a lovely senryu poem. Good job on this one, Willow. ❤
Thank you Colleen, is it a Senryu because it’s not about Nature….I can’t always work out my Haiku and my Senryu.
Yes… senryu focuses on the human, while haiku focuses on nature… there is more to it, but that is the basic way to remember. I still loved the poem. ❤
Thank you Colleen I really do try to get it right 💜
I know. The two forms are confusing to everyone. ❤
I am getting there 💜
You are amazing! 😍❤️
So are you 💜