The haiku here have nature themes embedded in them. Anyone who knows me knows that nature – trees, flowers, birds, water, peaks, valleys, and so on – is a huge part of my identity. I love these things as they exist but also for their symbolism and their healing powers. The more I explore nature out in the real world and write about it, the closer I feel to myself, but also my late maternal grandma, Grace. She and I went on lots of long walks growing up. Her passion for walking was born out of her love for nature, her drive to get up and go, and necessity as she never had a driver’s license and could never afford a car.
Some of these haiku were written in a retrospective space, as a response to the nature I was actively seeing and emotions I was feeling, and some were simply made up in my creative mind. You’ll even pick up on nature themes in my other haiku outside of this section.
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