The haiku here touch on relationships I’ve had with others. Most of them were written either about the honeymoon or break-up stages. In 2020, I started writing about the relationships I was in as I was experiencing them. Being able to draw inspiration from a relationship as it was going rather than wait for the end was a huge area of growth for me. Some of these haiku that were written during the relationship rather than after, were also interestingly written in beds, either alone or with my then partners near. I would often tap my fingers alongside their body and they knew a haiku was forming in my mind and would ask me to share it aloud.
Relationships are so many things – beautiful messes, healing containers – created by two people and as I have grown I have tried to do a better job of capturing that rather than the one-sidedness that often comes about in a cathartic purge of feelings when I am grieving. the loss of the person, the relationship, and part of myself.
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