Moments

Noticing. It can be a powerful thing. Where we direct our attention influences our heart, mind, emotions. Days can feel like battles sometimes, and that little strategic pause to notice can help turn the tide for victory. 

The past few days, I have been trying to choose to be happy. Not an artificial smile, but moments of pausing and deliberately finding something to smile about or be grateful for. Writing a brief haiku has made me ponder and dwell on the meaning. 

Now its your turn. Share your own haiku of a moment of gladness! 

What is a haiku? Adapted from Japanese poetry, in English it is most often three lines, with 5-7-5 syllables respectively. It usually captures something specific, something unique, about a moment of time. 

Deceptively simple, deliberate word choice can invite a second layer, a second glance. 

Mourning dove on wire:

Dawn's glow warms shrouded breast,

Coo sings peace in all. 

Sea of doldrums grass 

Flecked with petals' yellow spray,

Diamonds of surprise.

Choose to be happy

For chicory's striking blue,

Weed crowned with beauty.

Hummingbird moment: 

That crystallized ruby flash

Breath pauses... then breathe.

In the daily drone

Of mowers and ticking clock

Wren's bright song sounds in.

Varied verdant leaves

Sumac's deep patterns unseen

Praise with their own joy.