Category: Haiku for You

You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 20 July 202020 July 2020
• 24 Comments on Haiku about Love: Week 11 of rewriting your well-being

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer — and what trees and seasons smelled like —…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 13 July 202013 July 2020
• 20 Comments on Haiku about Place: Week 10 of rewriting your well-being

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own Good morning, afternoon and evening from Haiku for You! This is a 12-week interactive…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 6 July 202013 July 2020
• 24 Comments on Haiku about Food: Week 9 of rewriting your well-being

I love the silent hour of nightFor blissful dreams may then arise,Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.  Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters Thanks so much for coming along…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 29 June 202029 June 2020
• 26 Comments on Haiku about Night-time: Week 8 of rewriting your well-being

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot, Mr Gilfil’s Love Story A warm welcome to week 7 of Haiku for You, the interactive blog-series that for 12 weeks,…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 22 June 202026 June 2020
• 23 Comments on Haiku about Animals: Week 7 of rewriting your well-being

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt Greetings from week 6 of Haiku for You, where you can huddle up to haiku and learn how to use…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 15 June 202017 June 2020
• 29 Comments on Haiku about Dreams: Week 6 of rewriting your well-being

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful. Alice Walker Say hello to week 5 of Haiku for You, where every week…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 8 June 202010 June 2020
• 23 Comments on Haiku about Nature: Week 5 of rewriting your well-being

Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth. Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin Covid-19 note: As this is a time where social-distancing is…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 1 June 202010 June 2020
• 24 Comments on Haiku about Touch: week 4 of rewriting your well-being

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. Mark Twain Thank you for joining me on week 3 of your Haiku for You writing for well-being programme, Haiku about Weather!…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 25 May 202010 June 2020
• 33 Comments on Haiku about Weather: week 3 of rewriting your well-being

Sound is the vocabulary of nature. Pierre Schaeffer, An interview with Pierre Schaeffer Thank you for returning to week 2 of your Haiku for You writing programme! I hope this week’s theme brings you as…

• by Georgia
• Posted on 18 May 202010 June 2020
• 34 Comments on Haiku about Sound: week 2 of rewriting your well-being