haze

I remember, I think...

stoned in solitude

memory evaporates

before it happens

Author's Note

I wrote Pulitzer quality poetry back in the day, and promptly forgot every last word...


Senryu

Reviews

[Mariya]

It feels good to be just lost in the haze and forget about the outside world. To be contained in solitude is a good escape. Beautiful verse.

[Mauricio Montoya]

Wow! I can relate to this piece because I've been there.
Nice work for such a short one, it said a lot

[Extant]

We leave it behind, and it leaves us. My own style has changed so much, but I guess as poets we learn that the evolvtion in itself is a gorgeous and miraculous thing, we shouldn't try to stop change and we shouldn't fret or regret it, but wielded it into our own frame.
The simple, wonderful beauty of haiku, I applaud and thank you.

[Mockingbird]

perhaps people's style evolve and you might find that it is way too different from what you're writing now. i know what it's like to lose a style of writing then get nostalgic over it. great poem.

[Leslie Philibert]

Not only like the poem, but I like the modest author´s note.I have the same problem- I keep waiting for a phone call from Stockholm that I`ve won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but they must have lost my telephone number......

[Katrina Mckeown]

so true, thanks for sharing this well written piece!

[Stacey Watts]

Very well written. I like the way the Senryu is written. Life's memories can become a haze.

[Michael G.]

Beautiful. I can relate to this. Not because of outside influences... but, because of writer's block. Before I could get five words strung together, it was gone. This says it exactly the way it happened. Thanks John, for reminding me. lol!

[Ed Hart]

i think, therefore i remember what didn't get away

[Marie]

I can appreciate this haiku (or senryu; I'm still not sure of the difference.) Sometimes a memory is too elusive to grasp, before or after it happens.