2024 Japanese Poetry
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Comment from mermaids
The haibun is one of my favorite forms of poetry. I love your haiku, especially the line "don't wish to be roses". It is a line that says so much and poppies are beautiful as they are. I appreciate your words and openness in telling your story. My family is loaded with mental illness, bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia are prevalent in several family members. I am sure many can relate to your words.
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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The haibun is one of my favorite forms of poetry. I love your haiku, especially the line "don't wish to be roses". It is a line that says so much and poppies are beautiful as they are. I appreciate your words and openness in telling your story. My family is loaded with mental illness, bipolar disorder, depression and schizophrenia are prevalent in several family members. I am sure many can relate to your words.
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Thank you very much, my friend , only a couple of people shared that they know someone with mental illness. But 1 in 25 people in America suffer from severe mental illness. But it's a tabu subject. Thank you for sharing your personal experience. I write openly about my life, the good and the bad. I'm an honest and straightforward kind of person.
Thank you very much for your excellent review and kind words.
Gypsy hugs
Comment from barbara.wilkey
Thank you for sharing this with us. My resolution is try to be a better person than I was last year. I think you're wonderful!!
I believe children start wise and kind until adults changed them. (To this you can add prejudice. Children aren't prejudice until adult teach them to be.
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Thank you for sharing this with us. My resolution is try to be a better person than I was last year. I think you're wonderful!!
I believe children start wise and kind until adults changed them. (To this you can add prejudice. Children aren't prejudice until adult teach them to be.
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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That is true, children are not prejudice in nature.
Thank you very much, Barbara.
Love,
Gypsy
Comment from Pam Lonsdale
Your resolution is not simple at all. Spoken, it is . . . this is what I intend to do. But in practice, it will be hard if you've always hated everything about yourself. You have support here on this site; I hope you also have support among friends and family.
It's funny, when I read your poetry I think of you as a confident, strong woman yet you say you are not. I think you need to believe what we believe - you are!
I don't see any help needed here with your grammar.
I wish you much success with your resolution and I wish you a happy, healthy life ahead.
xo
Pam
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Your resolution is not simple at all. Spoken, it is . . . this is what I intend to do. But in practice, it will be hard if you've always hated everything about yourself. You have support here on this site; I hope you also have support among friends and family.
It's funny, when I read your poetry I think of you as a confident, strong woman yet you say you are not. I think you need to believe what we believe - you are!
I don't see any help needed here with your grammar.
I wish you much success with your resolution and I wish you a happy, healthy life ahead.
xo
Pam
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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I am confident and strong but my self esteem is low. I do believe I'm a good poet, right now, Poetry is the one thing I do for myself and feel good about. I'm disabled now but when I worked I was a teacher, social worker, and advocate for victims of rape and molest and spousal abuse. But inside I still feel like a hurt little girl.
Thank you very much, Pam. You are very kind.
Gypsy hugs
Comment from Rosemary Everson1
Gypsy, has writing helped? After my hubby passed, I returned to writing for therapy. It also helps the brain from illness/you are completely truthful with yourself in this posting. I love your writing and your images are beyond imagination. Thank you for being honest.
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Gypsy, has writing helped? After my hubby passed, I returned to writing for therapy. It also helps the brain from illness/you are completely truthful with yourself in this posting. I love your writing and your images are beyond imagination. Thank you for being honest.
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Writing does help. I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for your exceptional six stars review.
In America, more than 1 in 5 people live with a mental illness. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
My past makes me who I am today. I'm not ashamed to tell my truth.
I believe children start wise and kind until adults changed them. I was a very quiet child. I'm still an introverted person but I have learned some skills to deal with my shameof being violated.
I worked as a teacher for adults with working barriers teaching them business and office skills. I also helped victims of molestation, rape, and violence. In addition, I worked for homeless people to help them integrate back into society. My past helped me be kind and empathetic to people in need.
Gypsy hugs
Comment from Mike Stevens
Another fine write, Gypsy, and you have to deal with a lot of heavy stuff in your life, but I salute you, you're dealing with them and are honest about the help you need. That's more than a lot of people will do. You're handling it great
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Another fine write, Gypsy, and you have to deal with a lot of heavy stuff in your life, but I salute you, you're dealing with them and are honest about the help you need. That's more than a lot of people will do. You're handling it great
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Thank you very much, Mike. I appreciate your exceptional six stars review and kind words.
Gypsy hugs
Comment from GWHARGIS
This deserves a six. I don't have one. This is such an honest post. I doubt I would be so honest. The haiku was absolutely breath taking. It's amazing that we can grow up under the weight of our own scrutiny. When we are very young, we feel nothing is impossible. Every thought is pure, we can grow up to be whatever we decide. Every picture we draw is amazing. Then things change. Everything we ever believed was special about ourselves is suddenly measured against others. Our pictures are graded. Our thoughts are dissected and marked with a red pen. We stop being who we are meant to be and start becoming who they tell us we should be. It starts to change as we age. I'm slowly becoming the person I was supposed to be. And I love it. Sorry I went off course, but the haiku spoke to me. Gretchen
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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This deserves a six. I don't have one. This is such an honest post. I doubt I would be so honest. The haiku was absolutely breath taking. It's amazing that we can grow up under the weight of our own scrutiny. When we are very young, we feel nothing is impossible. Every thought is pure, we can grow up to be whatever we decide. Every picture we draw is amazing. Then things change. Everything we ever believed was special about ourselves is suddenly measured against others. Our pictures are graded. Our thoughts are dissected and marked with a red pen. We stop being who we are meant to be and start becoming who they tell us we should be. It starts to change as we age. I'm slowly becoming the person I was supposed to be. And I love it. Sorry I went off course, but the haiku spoke to me. Gretchen
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Thank you very much, Gretchen. I really appreciate your empathy and kindness.
In America, more than 1 in 5 people live with a mental illness. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
My past makes me who I am today. I'm not ashamed to tell my truth.
I believe children start wise and kind until adults changed them. I was a very quiet child. I'm still an introverted person but I have learned some skills to deal with my shameof being violated.
I worked as a teacher for adults with working barriers teaching them business and office skills. I also helped victims of molestation, rape, and violence. In addition, I worked for homeless people to help them integrate back into society. My past helped me be kind and empathetic to people in need.
Comment from Sugarray77
You've written an excellent haibun Gypsy. Your revelation of your challenges and self perception resonates with me and I'm sure many others. I didn't go through the same traumas, but we all judge ourselves harshly. Thank you for being open!!
Melissa
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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You've written an excellent haibun Gypsy. Your revelation of your challenges and self perception resonates with me and I'm sure many others. I didn't go through the same traumas, but we all judge ourselves harshly. Thank you for being open!!
Melissa
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Thank you very much, Melissa. I appreciate your exceptional review.
Gypsy hugs
Comment from patcelaw
I enjoyed your prose very much. I wish you the very best with all of your writing. I am glad that you mentioned the bipolar disorder, and the fact that you were molested as a child. There are probably many who have experienced the same kind of things that you've gone through and it's good to know that people can overcome even the most difficult situations. Patricia.
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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I enjoyed your prose very much. I wish you the very best with all of your writing. I am glad that you mentioned the bipolar disorder, and the fact that you were molested as a child. There are probably many who have experienced the same kind of things that you've gone through and it's good to know that people can overcome even the most difficult situations. Patricia.
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Patricia, why did you give me a one star review. You probably pressed the wrong key. I do that sometimes but never a one star.
Thank you very much for your review
Gypsy hugs
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I would never give anyone who wants our rating on any of their work, so that was totally by mistake. I have corrected it. It is now at five star rating.
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yes, patricia, I know you would never give one star. thank you
Comment from Jumbo J
Hi MariVal,
you made me smile!
First for the perfect notion that your resolution is to love yourself... about time!
But the second thing is the word simple, so yes, double smile!
As we both know only too well, to love oneself when every atom of your being has sabotaged that thought through shame and self loathing... the depression, the anxiety that solidifies all beliefs to why one would even want to believe that one could ever love the damaged human just trying to survive through to the next day... so couple that with bipolar, that was certainly caused by the evil perpetrated upon you as a young girl and then begins the uphill battle of attrition as you are hanging on by a fine thread.
Okay, enough of the doom and gloom and I'll hit you up with some solid advice why self love for you is so achievable.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is: the love and caring you have is all around you, your family, your grandson... your adoring friends who hold you high esteem. All know you, know the beauty and good that seeps from your pores of your being, so question? How can you not know your value to us all, that value to yourself for going through what you have and survived where others haven't been that fortunate. You owe it to all those every one's who didn't make it, to magnify that self love upon yourself. This is our duty for all the others who follow.
I for one, are proud beyond what words could ever achieve in saying... but I know the love I speak of is coming from the very same place... the connection to our Source. I know you hear and feel that love connection. It took me so very long, not only to hear it, but let it sit with me in the comfort of my knowing.... and yes, of course I have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, but that's what makes faith even stronger... by not being hoodwinked by thoughts that want to keep you on a lower energy.
Another thing comes to mind what I told myself countless times... yes, it an old cliché, but: fake it till you make it! As the same principle that caused your not loving yourself... repetition of thought, can work just the same way turned around. 'But I am a good person working hard to be a better human being, I deserve to love myself for that!'
Each time that inner dialogue that tells you you're not worthy of love, you dispute that by not only saying, but believing you're a good person, doing good who is more than worthy of her own love. (Which you definitely are!)
It takes knowing the you, you are now, not then or sometime in the past... that is a mind trap. There is only now and the person going forward!
So, yes, I'm so very proud to call you my dear friend with a giant heart!
As I've said numerous times... if writing is about bleeding onto the page... you my dear lady are in of a transfusion!
Your perfectly composed haiku sums it up in such a beautiful message to yourself... we are all worthy when we know our connection... God does love you and so do I.
Brave write Reina Lobo Gitana!
With our thoughts we create...
a true narrative!
Warmest regards,
James,
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Hi MariVal,
you made me smile!
First for the perfect notion that your resolution is to love yourself... about time!
But the second thing is the word simple, so yes, double smile!
As we both know only too well, to love oneself when every atom of your being has sabotaged that thought through shame and self loathing... the depression, the anxiety that solidifies all beliefs to why one would even want to believe that one could ever love the damaged human just trying to survive through to the next day... so couple that with bipolar, that was certainly caused by the evil perpetrated upon you as a young girl and then begins the uphill battle of attrition as you are hanging on by a fine thread.
Okay, enough of the doom and gloom and I'll hit you up with some solid advice why self love for you is so achievable.
Well, the first thing that comes to mind is: the love and caring you have is all around you, your family, your grandson... your adoring friends who hold you high esteem. All know you, know the beauty and good that seeps from your pores of your being, so question? How can you not know your value to us all, that value to yourself for going through what you have and survived where others haven't been that fortunate. You owe it to all those every one's who didn't make it, to magnify that self love upon yourself. This is our duty for all the others who follow.
I for one, are proud beyond what words could ever achieve in saying... but I know the love I speak of is coming from the very same place... the connection to our Source. I know you hear and feel that love connection. It took me so very long, not only to hear it, but let it sit with me in the comfort of my knowing.... and yes, of course I have an angel on one shoulder and a devil on the other, but that's what makes faith even stronger... by not being hoodwinked by thoughts that want to keep you on a lower energy.
Another thing comes to mind what I told myself countless times... yes, it an old cliché, but: fake it till you make it! As the same principle that caused your not loving yourself... repetition of thought, can work just the same way turned around. 'But I am a good person working hard to be a better human being, I deserve to love myself for that!'
Each time that inner dialogue that tells you you're not worthy of love, you dispute that by not only saying, but believing you're a good person, doing good who is more than worthy of her own love. (Which you definitely are!)
It takes knowing the you, you are now, not then or sometime in the past... that is a mind trap. There is only now and the person going forward!
So, yes, I'm so very proud to call you my dear friend with a giant heart!
As I've said numerous times... if writing is about bleeding onto the page... you my dear lady are in of a transfusion!
Your perfectly composed haiku sums it up in such a beautiful message to yourself... we are all worthy when we know our connection... God does love you and so do I.
Brave write Reina Lobo Gitana!
With our thoughts we create...
a true narrative!
Warmest regards,
James,
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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Wow, I don't know what to say, your moving, wise, and loving words have touched my heart. I will save this review and read it when I feel low.
I'm also so grateful for our friendship. It has created a bridge between continents and seas.
I wish I could see myself through your eyes.
I'm not ashamed to write honestly about my past and mental health. My past has created who I am today. One out of 25 Americans suffer from serious mental diseases. I think it's important to talk or write about it. I hope it helps other people in fanstory who read my haibun.
Con cariño, tu amiga,
Marival
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It's people such as you you live through your authenticity who not only can be the shining beacon for others in the same position, but who actually are.
Shine your light for everyone to see. I believe in you!
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Thank you, James, I had a couple of people Thank me for sharing and they have family with similar challenges.
I appreciate your support.
Con much cariño,
Marival
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Thank you, James.
Besitos y abrazos
Comment from royowen
I remember upon having a conversation with God tat I had, and when the reply came it took me by surprise, the answer that emotions were my servants not my master. It's tremendously freeing to grasp this, joy is knowing your loved, and being nurtured, happiness depends on happenings, but joy is forever. Also the emotions motivate the tongue to be positive or negative, you are loved, and precious, don't listen to the alternative, "the power of death and life are in the tongue" Proverbs, 18:21, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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I remember upon having a conversation with God tat I had, and when the reply came it took me by surprise, the answer that emotions were my servants not my master. It's tremendously freeing to grasp this, joy is knowing your loved, and being nurtured, happiness depends on happenings, but joy is forever. Also the emotions motivate the tongue to be positive or negative, you are loved, and precious, don't listen to the alternative, "the power of death and life are in the tongue" Proverbs, 18:21, blessings Roy
Comment Written 03-Jan-2024
reply by the author on 03-Jan-2024
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I like the property 18:21, it's so true. Thank you, Roy. I will remember your Wie words. You are very kind.
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Well done, you?re in a good place
