Day: May 10, 2022

Now, What Do I Do?

~ JezzieG

Now, What Do I Do?
Form: Epistle
Theme: The Self-Healing Journey

Things happen and life changes and often times we don’t even notice but then something happens and it is dramatically life-changing. They leave me feeling ‘now what do I do?’.

I have learned these are the times I need to take time away from my life and look at it from a distance so to speak. Reassess and examine everything and what needs to be changed, is it possible to change it.

It is not a painless process, in my experience, I will say it is abject agony. Taking abstractions out of my life and looking at them with a clouded mind and tears in my eyes – no it is not painless. However, going through that pain shows me what is wrong and what needs to be changed or taken out completely.

It is a process I do alone and on my own, without talking it out with anyone. I am fully aware that these things are about me and therefore do not require external input. People who know me well will have seen my mental health deteriorating anyway, and know to back off when I go into introspective thinking. It doesn’t mean they don’t support me, they do, and I know that.

Despite being a painful experience, the aftermath of this thinking is often more painful as I let go of the things I thought I wanted in life and needed in life. That is hard and hurts like fuck, but ultimately I know it has to be done.

It is in these life-changing times that I know some doors are closing to me, and need to be closed and stay closed. There are new doors beginning to open and my life is changing and I have to go with it and find the metal to push through the new doors to whatever is waiting for me beyond.

My life is changing – I got this

©JezzieGFarmer2022

Haiku

~ JezzieG

Form: Haiku

tears of rain falling
the golden heads are bowed now
daffodils cry too

Author’s Note: Jezzie and Lilydog miss you so very much, Daddy xxx

©JezzieGFarmer2022

That Pretty Girl by Kobayashi Issa

~ JezzieG ~ 2 Comments

That Pretty Girl

That pretty girl–
munching and rustling
the wrapped-up rice cake

Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa
Born: 15 June 1763, Kashiwabara, Japan
Nationality: Japanese
Died: 5 January 1828, Shinano Province, Japan

Issa was a poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū best known for his haiku poems and journals,. Known simply as Issa, meaning a Cup-of-Tea, he is considered one of the ‘Great Four’ haiku masters in Japan

Oh God

~ JezzieG ~ 2 Comments

Oh God
Form: Free Verse
Theme: Erotica
Subject: Religion

You say you don’t believe
dressed in black lingerie
silk rippling on the curves of skin
tormenting the eye
and you say you don’t believe
yet you pray as the garments fall to the floor
and as I pin you onto our bed
ready to hear you pray so much more
but you say you don’t believe

©JezzieGFarmer2022

Overeducated

~ JezzieG ~ 3 Comments

Well worth reading with a cup of tea, Judy nails that parent dilemma as our young’uns become adults

lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown

Overeducated

I rue the day I sent my oldest kid to college,
for ever since he’s been deluging us with knowledge.
From “dermatones” to other concepts we can’t grasp,
his pedestrian lectures make us want to gasp.
He uses words archaic since majoring in Chaucer,
ostentatiously positioning his “cuppe” in his saucer.
He bores us all to death when his golf club raises turf.
He doesn’t raise a divot. Instead he cuts a kerf!
Constantly, he leaves us in a state of consternation
simply by engulfing us in too much information.

Prompt words today are dermatone, tear, archaic, kerf and pedestrian. Illustration thanks to Muhammad Rizwan on Unsplash.

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